From 8e601a8f448fcbff4baea15de871a111ba7cc3e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan-Erik Rediger Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:27:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] new post: 2019 in many words and some photos --- _posts/2019-12-30-2019-in-many-words.md | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2019-12-30-2019-in-many-words.md diff --git a/_posts/2019-12-30-2019-in-many-words.md b/_posts/2019-12-30-2019-in-many-words.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b29215 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-12-30-2019-in-many-words.md @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +--- +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/2018-in-many-words" +title: "2019 in many words and some photos" +published_date: "2019-12-30 23:30:00 +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 [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 2019 edition. + +### My year in numbers + +I attended 5 conferences in 4 cities: + +* [Rust LATAM](https://rustlatam.org/) in Montevideo, Uruguay (March) +* [RustConf](https://rustconf.com/) in Portland, Oregon (August) +* [Oxidize](https://oxidizeconf.com/) in Berlin, Germany (April) +* [EnthusiastiCon](https://www.enthusiasticon.de/) in Berlin, Germany (May) +* [RustFest](https://barcelona.rustfest.eu/) in Barcelona, Spain (November) + +The trend was very clear: It's Rust. +I gave two talks this year. One at the above mentioned EnthusiastiCon and one at a meetup in Bergen. + +I travelled close to 39.000 km in planes across the globe (or twice that if you count the way back, I can't remember what I calculated the previous years). + +I didn't move flats! Instead I bought new furniture and equipment for my flat instead. + +I published only 9 blog posts this year. + +I went to one concert in Berlin, 4 handball games of Füchse Berlin (now I got a ticket for the second round of the HBL), one festival, but sadly didn't go diving :'( + +GitHub says I made over 4330 countable contributions across dozens of repositories. +The huge increase to last year (more than three times) is due to the fact that [the project I've been working on](/2019/10/24/this-week-in-glean/) is on GitHub. +Commits to the Firefox codebase declined a lot. + +I posted 167 photos and videos on Instagram and my `~/photos/2019` directory now contains ~1800 photos. +Much less than last year, but honestly this is because I took most pictures with my phone and I haven't properly sorted them yet. + +I wrote 2735 tweets (that's about the same as last year), with 1513 (also nearly the same) being in reply to someone (that includes self-replies in a thread though). +This also includes about 400 retweets. + +### My year in photos and words + +Last year ended and this year started with a trip to Botswana and Namibia, together with [Flaki](https://twitter.com/slsoftworks) and [Florian](https://twitter.com/Argorakk). + +![giraffe looking over the trees in the Kalahari desert](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/kalahari-giraffe.jpg) + +March started with a ski trip to Switzerland (and France) together with my dad, brother and brother in law. +Unfortunately I had a bit of bad luck and missed 2 skiing days (one for everyone due to the weather, and one because I slightly injured myself). + +![Look over the snowy hills during our ski trip](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/skiurlaub.jpg) + +The month ended with a trip to Buenos Aires and Montevideo for the Rust LATAM conference and a bit of vacation. + +![View from the balcony in the Montevideo apartment](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/montevideo.jpg) + +In June I had to go to Whistler, Canada for the Mozilla All-Hands, where I hiked in a T-Shirt to a frozen and snowy lake, +did my very first downhill bike ride and had some good work time with my colleauges. +Afterwards I went on to Vancouver Island and visited [Ana](https://twitter.com/a_hoverbear). + +![Snowy and frozen lake in Whistler](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/snowy-lake.jpg) + +In July I was back in Dortmund to visit (and help) at the Juicy Beats festival. + +![Confetti canon during a concert at Juicy Beats](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/jb-konfetti-kanone.jpg) + +Later in August I flew over to Portland to attend RustConf, with a trip to Victoria on Vancouver Island afterwards again. + +![Opening keynote at RustConf 2019](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/rustconf-keynote.jpg) + +Just before flying out to Barcelona, I first had to go to Bergen, Norway to give a talk about Rust and then hike up the mountain. + +![View from the mountain above Bergen](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/bergen-mountainview.jpg) + +And then I headed to Barcelona for the 6th edition of [RustFest](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/bergen-mountainview.jpg). +It was the biggest RustFest to date, with two dozen speakers and coaches, over 400 attendees and 4 days packed full with Rust. + +![Intro at RustFest Barcelona](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/rustfest-opening.jpg) + +I stayed longer for a much needed time off of work and RustFest responsibilities and did everything a tourist needs to do in that city. +Such as visiting the Sagrada Familia for some stunning pictures. + +![Light coming in through the windows of the Sagrada Familia](https://tmp.fnordig.de/blog/2019/sagrada-familia-lichtspiel.jpg) + +At the end of the year I traveled back home for Christmas and family time, but now I'm back in Berlin, +waiting to have a nice relaxed evening with some food and drinks with a bunch of friends. + +### Thanks + +It's the same people that stuck around with me last year, +but both [Ola](https://twitter.com/misprintedtype) and [Flaki](https://twitter.com/slsoftworks) deal with my complaints most often +and they are always there for me and vice versa. + +At every trip I met old friends and met new people and I know I can come back and they would be all up for another drink again. + +A huge thanks to the organizer teams of [RustFest Barcelona](https://barcelona.rustfest.eu/about/). +This year was no less stressful than any of the editions before, but the whole team jumped in and helped and made this event happen. +I know and learned that I can't be involved in the same capacity anymore, but I am looking forward to [RustFest Netherlands 2020](https://netherlands.rustfest.eu/). + + +### The Future + +This year was long and at times stressful and exhausting. +I felt a bit too much stretched between my work and RustFest +I had no time or energy left for side projects or some better time off the compuer (such as ... more sport, diving and cooking). + +I'm proud of what RustFest, the conference I founded just over 3 years ago, has become and the direction its headed to. +I'm looking very much forward to work with the Dutch team for the 2020 edition. +For the next year I will cut down on my direct involvement and management. +I'll be around as an advisor for the team and picking up tasks where I can, but I won't be the final decision maker anymore. +Hopefully that will allow me to explore some side projects and learnings again (that might end up only useful for myself). + +In general I want to try to be much more conscious about my self organization, allowing for more time off the computer, exploring other hobbies. +I also need to space my vacation time better and not always combine them with work or conference trips. + +Workwise I want to push on with the great work my team and I have been doing developing a telemetry framework from scratch. +I'm looking forward to finally contribute Rust code into the Firefox codebase. +Let's see what the Mozilla All-Hands in Berlin in January will bring. + +
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