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+title: 2016 in many words and some photos
+date: 31.12.2016 11:30
+---
+
+Last year I summarized my year in a [long blog post](/2015/12/31/2015-in-many-words/),
+and I did the same [the year before as well](/2014/12/29/2014-in-many-words/).
+So here comes the 2016 edition.
+
+### My year in numbers
+
+I was at 3 different conferences in 2 different cities across 2 different countries:
+
+1. [View Source](https://viewsourceconf.org/) in Berlin, Germany (September), where I gave a Rust workshop
+2. [RustFest](http://www.rustfest.eu/) in Berlin, Germany (September), which I co-organized
+3. [Rust Belt Rust](http://www.rust-belt-rust.com/) in Pittsburgh, USA (October), where I gave a workshop about Rust & Emscripten
+
+In total I gave [5 different talks](/talks/),
+which included twice at the [Rust Cologne](http://rust.cologne/) meetup,
+once at the Amsterdam Rust meetup and once at the Rust meetup in Stockholm.
+New talks are already lining up with two confirmed in the first half of next year.
+Since March I am a regular attendee of the Rust Cologne meetup and I've become part of the organizer team in June as well.
+We managed to have one meetup per month since March and also had the [Novemb.rs Code Sprint Weekend](https://fnordig.de/2016/11/29/novemb-rs-code-sprint-weekend-2016-retrospective/) in November.
+
+GitHub says I made 2185 countable contributions (including some private repositories) across dozens of repositories.
+My number of published crates went up to 20.
+Yet I didn't manage to really work on [semantic-rs](https://github.com/semantic-rs/semantic-rs) at all.
+
+Last year I said I plan to release stable 1.0 releases of all hiredis derivates,
+but I pretty much failed on all of them.
+I'm not giving up though, maybe I can find the time & motivation soon to get them out.
+But after that they will probably stay maintained, but not further developed by me.
+
+I posted <strike>183</strike> 191 photos on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/janerikr/)
+and my `~/photos/2016` directory now contains about 2000 photos.
+Because of my own stupidity and no proper backup I lost quite a few photos from my phone. :(
+
+I wrote more than 5000 tweets, more than 3700 of them in reply to someone.
+That's still 3000 tweets less than last year. Wow.
+11 new blog posts on this blog are just in range of what I did last year as well.
+Hope to keep this up!
+
+### My year in photos and words
+
+The year started off with a trip to Canada.
+With temperatures as low as -25°C, lots of snow, pancakes and beer I had a wonderful time.
+I definitely need to go back once more in the summer.
+
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}
+<div class="image"  style="text-align:center">
+![Canada Forest](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-01-08_12.27.25.jpg){:width="900px"}
+<p>Canada Forest</p>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}
+<div class="image"  style="text-align:center">
+![Freezing cold](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-01-13_16.49.41.jpg){:width="900px"}
+<p>Freezing cold</p>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}
+<div class="image"  style="text-align:center">
+![Sun over frozen Canada](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-01-24_12.59.35.jpg){:width="900px"}
+<p>Sun over frozen Canada</p>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+
+In May I made a short trip to Stockholm.
+Equipped with the absolute best weather I enjoyed a few more days away from university and work and could relax.
+In addition a canceled flight gave me another night in this city.
+
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}
+<div class="image"  style="text-align:center">
+![Beautiful Stockholm](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-05-17_10.44.11-2.jpg){:width="900px"}
+<p>Beautiful Stockholm</p>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+
+After I got back to Aachen I bought my first Longboard.
+I enjoyed multiple long trips over the Vennbahn. See more impression in [Longboarding: Vennbahn](//fnordig.de/2016/06/09/longboarding-vennbahn/).
+
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}
+<div class="image"  style="text-align:center">
+![Longboarding on Vennbahn](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-06-09_12.53.25-1.jpg){:width="900px"}
+<p>Longboarding on Vennbahn</p>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+
+In August I got back to Stockholm a second time.
+This time with friends for a 4 day long kajaking trip through the Stockholm Archipelago.
+And again we had the best weather for such a trip.
+I could even visit the Stockholm Rust meetup and give a talk a few days later before heading back home.
+
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}
+<div class="image"  style="text-align:center">
+![Sunset in the archipelago of Stockholm](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-08-24_19.08.49-1.jpg){:width="900px"}
+<p>Sunset in the archipelago of Stockholm</p>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+
+In August I took part in the [Mozilla Tech Speakers program](https://wiki.mozilla.org/TechSpeakers)
+and thus became an official Tech Speaker.
+
+Starting in October I was back at full-time university (more or less),
+in search for a master thesis to finish with.
+Sadly, one of the more promising opportunities fell through and so it took until late November that I found an interesting topic and a supervisor to work with.
+Just before Christmas I officially started this thesis and thus starting the 6 month countdown for finishing my work.
+Which means, if nothing else goes horribly wrong, I will finish my masters degree in June.
+
+The year then ended with my yearly trip to Hamburg, though this time I opted for not visiting the yearly Chaos Communication Congress (in full),
+but stay with friends, enjoy the city and wait for the end of the year.
+
+### Thanks
+
+Again lots of the things I did were only possible due to help and encouragment from other people.  
+A big thanks to the [team behind RustFest](http://www.rustfest.eu/about/): Flaki, Emma, Ben, Johanna, Florian, Katharina & Andrew. It was a pleasure to organize the conference with you.  
+Thanks to [Pascal](https://twitter.com/killercup), [Flo](https://github.com/florob) & [Colin](https://github.com/colin-kiegel) for all the organisation work of Rust Cologne.  
+Thanks to my employer [rrbone][] and my boss [Dominik][dominikbay] once more.  
+Thanks to the people that traveled with me or let me stay at their place.  
+And thanks to the friends & family near and far away.
+
+[rrbone]: https://www.rrbone.net/
+[dominikbay]: https://twitter.com/dominikbay
+
+### The Future
+
+2017 will bring a lot of changes.
+As mentioned above I started my thesis and will finish in June.
+I already have some plans for the time after that, including bigger travel plans,
+but I don't know where I will end up after that.
+2017 will probably be the year I leave Aachen after more than 5 years living there.
+
+{::options parse_block_html="false" /}
+<div style="text-align:center">
+<strong>&lt;3</strong>
+</div>
+{::options parse_block_html="true" /}