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+title: "2020 in many words and some photos"
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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
+[2019](/2019/12/30/2018-in-many-words/),
+[2018](/2018/12/27/2018-in-many-words/),
+[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 2020 edition.
+
+2020 was ... different.
+Nothing was going as planned and thus exactly none of the predictions anyone could have had became true.
+Nonetheless 2020 had some good parts, so I'm sticking to my format of looking at some numbers first, some pictures next and the future last.
+
+### My year in numbers
+
+I attended several conferences:
+
+* [Rusty Days]
+* [RustConf]
+* [RustLab]
+* [RustFest] (obviously)
+
+[Rusty Days]: https://rusty-days.org/
+[RustConf]: https://rustconf.com/
+[RustLab]: https://www.rustlab.it/
+[RustFest]: https://rustfest.global/
+
+_(... and some others I forgot, but there I showed up for only a talk or two)_
+
+Same trend as last year: Rust.
+I gave one talk this year at the above mentioned Rusty Days.
+That talk was actually supposed to happen at Rust LATAM, but it was canceled.
+And so was the workshop I had planned to give at BoosterConf Bergen.
+
+In March we had to cancel RustFest Netherlands, the planned 7th in-person edition of RustFest.
+RustFest was again moved to November, moved online and went Global.
+With [3 teams and 24 people][team] we created an event that lasted for 21 hours, put 24 speakers and 9 artists in front of an audience of around 1000 people. 💪
+Probably the achievement I'm most proud of this year.
+
+[team]: https://rustfest.global/information/#team
+
+I published 11 blog posts this year.
+I wrote significantly more in design proposals, bugs and notes at work.
+
+I went to one concert, one of the last ones in February, before it all closed down.
+I picked up playing Handball again and we managed to start the new season with 2 wins. Since October the season is on a break.
+I also picked up running again, managed to get 2-3 runs a week in, paused over the summer but now that Handball training won't happen I'm back running, even in the cold.
+
+GitHub says I made 3082 contributions in the last year.
+That's less than last year, but it doesn't really mean less actual contributions, given how much it doesn't capture.
+I'm back with several large patch sets contributed to the Firefox code base because of [FOG](/2020/10/06/fog-progress-report/).
+
+I posted 83 photos and videos on Instagram (and I don't know how many stories), also a sign of less travel overall.
+My `~/photos/2020` directory now contains ~2424 photos and videos, though this time it includes a bunch of screenshots and random snapshots,
+because I didn't even feel like properly categorizing most of them.
+Lots of baking in there though.
+
+### My year in photos and words
+
+2020 started off quite well.
+End of January all my colleagues came to Berlin for the Mozilla All-Hands.
+It was a good kick-off for several projects for 2020 and of course a great opportunity to meet some colleagues in-person.
+Turns out this was the last time for 2020 I met some of them.
+
+
+
+February was more quiet, a visit home, some baking, watching Handball and going to a concert.
+Starting in March we were asked to work from home and the office was officially closed soon after.
+And thus began my year of home office.
+
+
+
+So I did what everyone did and settled in. I started to bake more, feed my sourdough (hey, I started with that in February already!) and built Lego.
+
+
+
+In May I managed to bake even more and I started to improve my home office. Turns out I really missed my standing desk from the office, now I got one at home.
+In June I went to visit my family once more, as it became clear that I wouldn't be able to have a travel vacation this year really.
+I also took the opportunity to work from my balcony, right there in the sun.
+
+
+
+For the summer I initially planned to go to Norway, accompanying my parents on a camping van trip, but that had to be canceled.
+As they still had the camping van they decided to tour through Germany and so I joined them for a bit, together with my brother.
+Camping is an exceptionally good way to avoid people.
+We took some bike trips and visited a couple of cities in eastern Germany.
+
+
+
+Back in Berlin my sister & family came to visit, so more bike trips to lakes and some touristy trips through Berlin.
+
+August was a tough month.
+The layoffs at Mozilla severely impacted my motivation at work, and while I was not affect directly seeing that many colleagues,
+lots of people who I personally knew even before I joined Mozilla were fired.
+
+
+
+I snuck in another trip back home, surprising my father for this birthday and also making a new little friend
+(the cat was later picked up by an animal shelter as my family couldn't take care of it).
+
+
+
+End of the month I then finally did my Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD),
+unfortunately the possibilities to make use of it when on vacations where of course limited this year.
+
+
+
+Thanks to [Florian] however we managed to do one weekend trip to the Feldberger Seenlandschaft somewhat north of Berlin.
+Not the same as diving in the ocean, but still a great opportunity for more scuba dive training overall and also my first night dive.
+
+[Florian]: https://twitter.com/argorak
+
+For September I stayed in Berlin. I even managed to have a small birthday party at home with some close friends.
+October was fully dedicated to RustFest.
+I worked countless hours to make the event happen, coordinating the team, speakers and artists, and working on the technology that runs the online event. It paid off.
+
+
+
+What followed was a day-filling event. You can find [all recordings online][rustfest playlist] (or [just the artist performances][artist playlist]).
+After that November was uneventful and I really needed that downtime.
+
+[rustfest playlist]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtcZ0ZOcO5w&list=PL85XCvVPmGQiudPknCxiSpybc5RTfkXe6
+[artist playlist]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-Eq3QahAY&list=PL85XCvVPmGQji1WRVzvDmPzCEZ3z3NSTS
+
+December rolled around and so did Christmas.
+I did manage to meet up with my family once more. It sure was a different Christmas though.
+
+### Thanks
+
+A huge shout-out to the whole RustFest team.
+Everyone contributed their part to making RustFest Global happen, in a time when nothing else was certain.
+Thank you especially to [Flaki] for being a real good friend and co-organizer, no matter what.
+
+[Flaki]: https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/
+
+Thanks also to the small group of Berlin friends I managed to see once in a while, given that large gathering were impossible this year.
+And the biggest thanks this year to my family.
+They took precautions as seriously as I did and thus made it possible for me to visit a couple of times.
+
+### The Future
+
+I don't know what 2021 will bring.
+We're going to have to deal with a pandemic for a while longer and I highly doubt big in-person events will be a thing anytime soon.
+I sure hope that we'll get to a point that travel will be possible again, safely.
+Hopefully I can visit some friends again.
+
+RustFest will continue, now that we're [transitioning it into an actual project](https://blog.rustfest.eu/rustfest-project-announcement).
+We will have to scrape together a team to bring you another edition of RustFest in 2021.
+As said last year, I'd like to play a less prominent role in the nitty-gritty detail organization of the event,
+and instead focus on helping with my knowledge where I can and deal with the project as a whole.
+
+Work-wise I'm continuing my journey as the tech lead of the Glean SDK.
+I'm now responsible for its direction & planning and together with the whole team I have some ideas on [what to tackle first](/2020/12/18/glean-in-2021/).
+Maybe late in the year I will be able to meet my remote colleagues in person again.
+
+
+
+<3
+