From 8a98a14ba136173e4c66c3f4d11083b9540efcf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Erik Rediger Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 11:25:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] new post: 2016 in many words and some photos --- _posts/2016-12-31-2016-in-many-words.md | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2016-12-31-2016-in-many-words.md diff --git a/_posts/2016-12-31-2016-in-many-words.md b/_posts/2016-12-31-2016-in-many-words.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c04785b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2016-12-31-2016-in-many-words.md @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ +--- +layout: post +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 183 191 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" /} +
+![Canada Forest](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-01-08_12.27.25.jpg){:width="900px"} +

Canada Forest

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+![Freezing cold](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-01-13_16.49.41.jpg){:width="900px"} +

Freezing cold

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+![Sun over frozen Canada](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-01-24_12.59.35.jpg){:width="900px"} +

Sun over frozen Canada

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+{::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" /} +
+![Beautiful Stockholm](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-05-17_10.44.11-2.jpg){:width="900px"} +

Beautiful Stockholm

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+{::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" /} +
+![Longboarding on Vennbahn](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-06-09_12.53.25-1.jpg){:width="900px"} +

Longboarding on Vennbahn

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+{::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" /} +
+![Sunset in the archipelago of Stockholm](//tmp.fnordig.de/end-of-2016/2016-08-24_19.08.49-1.jpg){:width="900px"} +

Sunset in the archipelago of Stockholm

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+{::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" /} +
+<3 +
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