From 0ff78d02dd6eb94439aaf5aef704cd1ec89d4f89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Erik Rediger Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 11:41:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] new post: 2018 in many words and some photos --- _posts/2018-12-27-2018-in-many-words.md | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 151 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2018-12-27-2018-in-many-words.md diff --git a/_posts/2018-12-27-2018-in-many-words.md b/_posts/2018-12-27-2018-in-many-words.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b82e9a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-12-27-2018-in-many-words.md @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +--- +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/2018-in-many-words" +title: "2018 in many words and some photos" +published_date: "2018-12-27 19:55:00 +0100" +layout: post.liquid +data: + route: blog +--- +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. + +
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