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+title: "2018 in many words and some photos"
+published_date: "2018-12-27 19:55:00 +0100"
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+It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
+I did so in [2017](/2017/12/31/2017-in-many-words/), [2016](/2016/12/31/2016-in-many-words/), [2015](/2015/12/31/2015-in-many-words/) and [2014](/2014/12/29/2014-in-many-words/).
+
+So here comes the 2018 edition (a bit earlier than normal, because I can't guarantuee to have internet in a few days).
+
+### My year in numbers
+
+I attended 6 conferences, 2 of which I organized myself, in 6 cities:
+
+* [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2018/) in Brussel, Belgium (February)
+* [RustFest](https://paris.rustfest.eu/) in Paris, France (May)
+* [JSConfEU](https://2018.jsconf.eu/) in Berlin, Germany (June)
+* [FrOSCon](https://www.froscon.de/) in Sankt Augustin, Germany (August)
+* [MozFest](https://mozillafestival.org/) in London, England (October)
+* [RustFest](https://rome.rustfest.eu/) in Rome, Italy (November)
+
+I only gave one talk (twice) at meetups (presenting [semantic-rs](https://github.com/semantic-rs/semantic-rs) once more).
+
+I travelled close to 100.000 km in planes across the globe (four times to the US alone, of which three flights were to the [Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley)).
+
+I moved once twice three times this year, once _to_ Berlin and twice _inside_ Berlin. I now got a flat of my own, where I will hopefully stay for longer.
+I switched jobs (once!).
+
+I published 21 blog posts this year.
+Some of them in my [Things I read](/2018/01/08/things-i-read-week-2/) series, which I unfortunately didn't follow through.
+
+I went to one theatre play in Berlin ("Die Parallelwelt", I can highly recommend it!), 5 handball games of Füchse Berlin, one festival, made my diving certification and went on a diving vacation right after (12 more dives now!).
+
+GitHub says I made 1286 countable contributions (including some private repositories) across dozens of repositories.
+Quite a few of those are probably commits into [gecko](https://github.com/mozilla/gecko) (which actually lives at Mozilla, but is mirrored to GitHub ... [twice](https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev)).
+
+I posted 114 photos and videos on Instagram and my `~/photos/2018` directory now contains over 5830 photos and about 3.6 Gb of video material.
+
+I wrote 2607 tweets, with 1504 being in reply to someone.
+
+I deleted all my content from Facebook (I'm still using the messenger for now).
+
+
+### My year in photos and words
+
+My year started with a (delayed) trip to Hamburg in January to meet friends and relax a little bit.
+
+![Drinks with Feli and Manel in Hamburg](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-15-45.jpg)
+
+From there I drove over to Berlin to meet more friends, some family, where I looked through really old books, and also worked a little bit.
+
+!["Bibliothek der Unterhaltung und des Wissens" - A book from 1901](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-15-47.jpg)
+
+At the end of January I was invited to fly over to Mountain View, California, for an on-site job interview.
+
+![Mozilla Headquarter in Mountain View](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-15-49.jpg)
+
+Luckily, I did not do too bad in that interview, so I was hired and moved to Berlin end of February to start at Mozilla in the Berlin office in March.
+Unfortunately that meant I had to cancel Booster Conf in Bergen, Norway.
+
+![View from the Mozilla Berlin Office](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-15-51.jpg)
+
+Not long after I travelled to Trondheim to teach some Rust (a leftover job from before I joined Mozilla).
+
+![Boardwalk view in Trondheim](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-15-54.jpg)
+
+In April I also made my first visit to the Fuchsbau, the home of Füchse Berlin, Berlin's Bundesliga Handball team.
+I went four more times this year.
+
+![Field view from the sidelines](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-15-55.jpg)
+
+In May I flew over the ocean once more for an onboarding week at Mozilla in Mountain View with a one-day trip to the San Francisco office and its amazing roof terrace view.
+
+![Bridge view from the Mozilla SF office](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-00.jpg)
+
+Once I was back I was bascially on my way out again to head to Paris, where RustFest Paris happened.
+
+!["Hoping around Europe" - RustFest intro talk](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-01.jpg)
+
+In June I attended JSConf EU in Berlin and helped with the Mozilla Arch project.
+
+![Colorful arch](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-02.jpg)
+
+One more trip to California followed in June, where I attended my first Mozilla All-Hands in San Francisco, a gathering of most Mozilla staff & some community members. I finally met my remote colleagues in person.
+
+![Sunrise in San Francisco](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-02.jpg)
+
+In July I finalized my diving certification together with [Florian](https://twitter.com/Argorak).
+
+![Packed diving equipment](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-06.jpg)
+
+August was mostly filled with summer activities. First I spent a weekend in the middle of nowhere with friends & music at a festival and then I went on a week-long vacation in Egypt to dive.
+
+![3000Grad Festival view](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-07.jpg)
+
+![Fish underwater](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-09.jpg)
+
+In October I headed over to England for [MozFest](/2018/11/07/mozfest-2018-an-inside-perspective/) and London at night.
+I stayed a few days extra to work from the Mozilla London office and attended the Rust London meetup.
+
+![Night view of Tower Bridge](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-12.jpg)
+
+Not even 6 month after RustFest Paris we brought RustFest to Rome in November. We're now taking a break from this 6-month cycle though and will return with RustFest in the fall of 2019.
+Oh, and that month I also moved flats again.
+
+![Opening talk of RustFest Rome](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-14.jpg)
+
+In December I had to fly to the US once more, this time to Florida for my second Mozilla All-Hands.
+It brought me to the Kennedy Space Center, where we saw the Atlantis spaceshuttle.
+The week ended with a trip to Hogwarts (they do have butterbeer in nearby pubs!).
+
+![Space shuttle Atlantis](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-16.jpg)
+
+![Hogwarts](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-17.jpg)
+
+For Christmas I went home to spent some time with my family.
+
+![Kransekake](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2018/th-2018-12-27-16-18.jpg)
+
+To end this year and start 2019 I am now on vacation with [Flaki](https://twitter.com/slsoftworks) and [Florian](https://twitter.com/Argorakk). Pictures will follow in a year (or on Twitter and Instagram).
+
+
+### Thanks
+
+Much of what happend this year is in no small part thanks to [Ola](https://twitter.com/misprintedtype), who brought me into Mozilla and to Berlin. Thanks for this friendship, support and for being there all the time.
+
+Thanks to [Florian](https://twitter.com/Argorak), who finally got me into doing a diving certification, who made it possible that I coach Rust workshops and who co-organized conferences and meetups with me.
+And now he's going on vacation with me.
+
+A huge thanks to the organizer teams of [RustFest Paris](https://paris.rustfest.eu/about/) and [RustFest Rome](https://rome.rustfest.eu/about/).
+It wasn't always easy but in the end two conferences happened! Looking forward to RustFest 2019!
+
+With so much travelling around, it's always nice to be able to go home and see my family and friends, no matter where that is.
+
+### The Future
+
+I only recently moved into my own flat, finally. Once I'm back in Berlin in January I will start with searching for furniture to put in my small flat.
+I hope 2019 will be less about moving places and instead about moving around to see the world (some trips are already planned), meet friends and make new ones!
+
+With just 10 months into my new job, there's a lot of potential to grow, learn and explore.
+The planning for my team's work already started and there are some exciting projects on the horizon now.
+
+And then there's Rust and RustFest. While sometimes stressful, I still enjoy the community work & event organisation and if we can pull off just a tiny bit of what we plan to, we will be quite successful in 2019.
+
+
+