new post: 2024 in many words and some photos
This commit is contained in:
parent
a78716845b
commit
c82851d54c
1 changed files with 303 additions and 0 deletions
303
_posts/2024-12-31-2024-in-many-words.md
Normal file
303
_posts/2024-12-31-2024-in-many-words.md
Normal file
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,303 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/2024-in-many-words"
|
||||
title: "2024 in many words and some photos"
|
||||
published_date: "2024-12-31 23:59:59 +0100"
|
||||
layout: post.liquid
|
||||
data:
|
||||
route: blog
|
||||
excerpt: |
|
||||
It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
|
||||
I did so in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
|
||||
Let's look at 2024 now.
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
|
||||
I did so in
|
||||
[2023](/2023/12/31/2023-in-many-words/),
|
||||
[2022](/2022/12/31/2022-in-many-words/),
|
||||
[2021](/2021/12/31/2021-in-many-words/),
|
||||
[2020](/2020/12/31/2020-in-many-words/),
|
||||
[2019](/2019/12/30/2019-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 2024 edition (later than usual, but I still date it to the correct year).
|
||||
|
||||
### My year in numbers
|
||||
|
||||
I attended 4 conferences this year:
|
||||
[Rust Nation UK][rustnationuk] in March,
|
||||
[Oxidize] in May,
|
||||
[RustFest Zürich][rustfestch] in June
|
||||
and [EuroRust Vienna][eurorust] in October.
|
||||
And while I didn't attend [PyCon DE][pyconde] this time,
|
||||
some of my colleagues did and I met them for food & drinks afterwards.
|
||||
|
||||
[rustnationuk]: https://www.rustnationuk.com/
|
||||
[oxidize]: https://oxidizeconf.com/
|
||||
[rustfestch]: https://rustfest.ch/
|
||||
[eurorust]: https://eurorust.eu/2024/
|
||||
[pyconde]: https://2024.pycon.de/
|
||||
|
||||
The only talk I gave was a fun lightning talk at work about [the adventures of Little Bobby Tables][bobbytables].
|
||||
|
||||
[bobbytables]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZupfJy6I0A
|
||||
|
||||
I traveled a lot.
|
||||
To Valencia for a Drift Masters event,
|
||||
to Oslo for the Biathlon World Cup,
|
||||
home on several occasions,
|
||||
to Toronto for a work week,
|
||||
to Dublin for a Mozilla All-Hands,
|
||||
to Mozambique for vacation
|
||||
and to northern Norway for some quiet time.
|
||||
I didn't count the distances traveled.
|
||||
|
||||
I wrote 11 blog posts, plus the one you are reading (which is technically being finished in 2025).
|
||||
That's a good increase over the last 2 years
|
||||
as I tried putting out things without spending weeks and weeks on editing (and then never finishing it).
|
||||
|
||||
I don't know how many books I finished.
|
||||
Maybe 2 or 3?
|
||||
It's still a thing I want to get back into more.
|
||||
There's a pile of books in my apartment and more on my e-reader.
|
||||
|
||||
GitHub says I made 1720 contributions in 2024. A lot of automated commits included.
|
||||
I'm now hosting my own forge, so some commits never go to GitHub and stay private.
|
||||
At work as usual contributions are spread across GitHub repositories, our internal Mercurial server
|
||||
and a whole bunch of documents, meetings and chat discussions.
|
||||
|
||||
The `~/Pictures/2024` folder now contains 3968 pictures. Probably 1000 less with the dupes removed.
|
||||
My iPhone photo library counts 5094 pictures for 2024.
|
||||
There's a whole lot of overlap.
|
||||
I should get my backups of all of these properly automated.
|
||||
|
||||
<!--
|
||||
import osxphotos
|
||||
photosdb = osxphotos.PhotosDB()
|
||||
photos = photosdb.photos()
|
||||
thisyear = [p for p in photos if p.date.year == 2024]
|
||||
print(len(thisyear))
|
||||
-->
|
||||
|
||||
Since I've been keeping a private archive of my Mastodon activity it's now easy to count:
|
||||
1464 toots over the year, 819 of those as replies to others.
|
||||
|
||||
<!--
|
||||
SELECT
|
||||
SUBSTR(created_at, 1, 4) as year,
|
||||
CASE
|
||||
WHEN in_reply_to_account_id IS NULL OR in_reply_to_account_id = 109309502992768302 THEN 'toot'
|
||||
ELSE 'reply'
|
||||
END as category,
|
||||
COUNT(*)
|
||||
FROM
|
||||
timeline
|
||||
WHERE
|
||||
account_id = 109309502992768302
|
||||
GROUP BY 1, 2
|
||||
ORDER BY 1, 2
|
||||
-->
|
||||
|
||||
I did 13 dives. 2 in Valencia, 11 in Mozambique.
|
||||
That's a good number for just 2 trips. Let's see if I can keep up with that in 2025.
|
||||
|
||||
I don't have good tracking of my workouts anymore.
|
||||
I did try to keep a regular cadence of 2-3 workouts (A mix of HIIT and Core workouts) per week among the weekly Handball training.
|
||||
The latter of which I'm still leading as the coach, so I don't get as much training done myself.
|
||||
A hand injury, some sick days and the travel made it harder to keep the streak going.
|
||||
|
||||
### <a id="my-year-in-photos-and-words"></a>My year in photos and words
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
I spent the first week of the year in Tallinn with Flaki, before I headed back to Berlin.
|
||||
The 2024 European Men's Handball Championship was happening and I got myself tickets for the 3 game days of the Preliminary round of Group D.
|
||||
That group included Norway (of course), but also the Faroe Islands.
|
||||
Their fans were spectacular and the team managed to score a draw against Norway.
|
||||
|
||||
In January I went to a [concert of Goldroger](https://www.instagram.com/p/C2kYkkzs8sP/).
|
||||
I went to school with that guy, so seeing him on stage in front of hundreds of people was something different.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
On a whim I bought a ticket to the [Enter Shikari concert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Q-gwLXxJ0) in Berlin in February
|
||||
(recording not from that concert, but from the same tour).
|
||||
While I knew them before I never followed their music much.
|
||||
That changed with the concert.
|
||||
|
||||
The day after I flew to Norway.
|
||||
As a kind of joke in December the previous year I asked my family if they would join me for Biathlon in Oslo.
|
||||
My dad and my sister said yes. So that's what we ended up doing February.
|
||||
Now I'm signed up to volunteer at the Holmenkollen Skifestival in 2025.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In March I headed to London.
|
||||
It's been a while since I visited, so I took that opportunity to do some sightseeing, including a Jack The Ripper walking tour.
|
||||
And of course I ate at [Mei Mei](https://www.meimei.uk/) (twice!)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The actual reason for the trip however was the [Rust Nation UK](https://www.rustnationuk.com/) conference.
|
||||
Me at a Rust conference as an attendee, no work or organizing involved. Still weird.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
I came back to spend Easter with my family, before I took my nephew with me to Berlin.
|
||||
He wanted to visit the big city and get some time away from home.
|
||||
We went to another Füchse Berlin game.
|
||||
|
||||
That same month I dislocated a finger on my right hand in the second-to-last game of the season.
|
||||
My whole right forearm was in a cast for a week and it took several more weeks before I could return to proper training.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
May then took me to Valencia, Spain.
|
||||
I accompanied [Patrick](https://www.instagram.com/pckbls/) there,
|
||||
where he took the opportunity to film the [Drift Masters](https://dm.gp/) event happening at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
|
||||
I managed to sneak in 2 dives and spend a day at the beach on my own.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Motor sport, no matter what, is still not my kind of sport,
|
||||
but nonetheless the results of Patrick's work there and at other events are worth a watch.
|
||||
Go check out [his latest video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77tZng7pAAo).
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In June I flew to Canada to take part in a Data Org Work week at the Mozilla office in Toronto.
|
||||
There's only a few times a year to spend time with my team, so we made the best of this week with planning, discussions, ping pong, arcade games, food and beer.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Back from the Canada trip I barely got a load of laundry done before I took a flight to Zürich for _my first_ [RustFest Zürich](https://rustfest.ch/).
|
||||
It was the second overall, after I couldn't attend [the 2017 edition](https://zurich.rustfest.eu/).
|
||||
|
||||
The team pulled it off and set up a small community event with great talks and fantastic attendees.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In July I made a surprise visit at my parents to celebrate my mother starting retirement,
|
||||
after which my parents in return visited Berlin (planned, not a surprise).
|
||||
|
||||
We then went back home together.
|
||||
From there I went further west to attend the wedding party of one of my closest friends.
|
||||
And it just happened that I met someone at this party and we hit it off.
|
||||
|
||||
There was no point going back to Berlin for a short time,
|
||||
because I was once again helping at the Juicy Beats festival in Dortmund just a week later.
|
||||
I stayed one more week so I could attend the bachelor party for my little brother.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
A week back in Berlin allowed me to catch some of the summer days,
|
||||
but before I got to settled down I went to Dublin for the Mozilla All-Hands (or MozWeek as they relabeled it).
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
That whole ordeal was so exhausting that after I was back in Berlin I took the train up to Stralsund to get away and relax at the ocean once more.
|
||||
I enjoyed it so much that I spontaneously extended my stay by 2 days.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
In late September Flaki came to visit Berlin, bringing along his two dogs Lumi and Iris.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
That visit was all part of a trip all the way down to Vienna to attend EuroRust in October.
|
||||
The two dogs were the most calm fluffy attendees I've ever seen.
|
||||
I on the other hand was quite busy helping to provide internet for the conference and running the Q&A sessions after talks.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
This year I seem to have packed all my travel close together.
|
||||
I again got less than a week back in Berlin before rushing back home.
|
||||
My brother got married and I had to be there.
|
||||
It was a great wedding and I wish the happy couple all the best!
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
For (nearly) all of November I stayed in Berlin. Finally.
|
||||
I managed to go to two concerts and then I got a visit from the special person I met a few months earlier at the wedding.
|
||||
Good food & good company made this month at home very worthwhile.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Then on November 29, Florian and I boarded a flight to Johannesburg in South Africa.
|
||||
[Sibylle](http://blog.discover-botswana.de/) picked us up
|
||||
and we took a long trip over to Mozambique,
|
||||
with a day trip through the Kruger National Park.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
The extended trip was chosen due to the still-ongoing protests and political crisis in Mozambique.
|
||||
A trip to the Kruger allowed us to use the more northern border post and thus avoid a drive through the capital Maputo.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
When we made it to Barra Beach we were greeted by our hosts and friends Greg & Gwen
|
||||
from [Aquaholics](https://www.barrascuba.com/).
|
||||
We spent 2 weeks down there.
|
||||
In 11 amazing dives I experienced a lively, colorful and astonishing world under water.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
After Mozambique I got back to Berlin for a day.
|
||||
The next day I hopped back on a train, heading home to spend Christmas with my family.
|
||||
|
||||
On December 27 I then started a long trip to northern Norway together with Dominik.
|
||||
I'm always checking the pictures from [ofotfjorden.no](https://ofotfjorden.no/),
|
||||
so it was time to see for myself.
|
||||
The picture above is looking roughly in the same direction as the Ofotfjorden camera.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
On New Year's Eve we made it to our final stop all the way in the north of Norway.
|
||||
The tiny settlement we're staying in is called Steinfjord
|
||||
and it's a good place for some days in the quiet.
|
||||
|
||||
Just as 2025 was to break the Northern Lights came up on the sky.
|
||||
They grew stronger as time went on, visible with bare eyes.
|
||||
A perfect start into a 2025.
|
||||
|
||||
### The Future
|
||||
|
||||
In retrospect writing this I realized just _how_ busy my 2024 was.
|
||||
I don't think 2025 will slow down much.
|
||||
I'm still traveling at the moment and won't be back in Berlin until late January.
|
||||
I already have two further trips booked.
|
||||
And that's only in the first 3 months of the year.
|
||||
It looks like I will go to at least 2 Rust conferences again.
|
||||
At some point I will need an extended summer vacation again too.
|
||||
|
||||
Work will go on.
|
||||
2024 was a turbulent year at Mozilla and it doesn't give me the highest confidence for Mozilla in 2025.
|
||||
Nonetheless I will continue to work on data things and ensure that we do that in a way that benefits the user.
|
||||
Glean just went through a major change and I have some work lined up to reduce memory usage and change the storage layer.
|
||||
|
||||
I'm still in the same flat as the year before and didn't really look for a new one yet.
|
||||
Maybe 2025 is the time for a move?
|
||||
|
||||
I now recognize when I didn't get to exercise for a while, be that for laziness, travel, injury or sickness.
|
||||
One thing I want to improve in 2025 is some form of workout schedule while traveling.
|
||||
|
||||
My year was busy, but all of that was enjoyable thanks to the people keeping me busy.
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks to so many people that traveled with me or came to visit.
|
||||
My dad & sister to Oslo.
|
||||
My nephew in Berlin.
|
||||
Patrick to Spain.
|
||||
Flaki in Berlin and to Vienna.
|
||||
My parents in Berlin and back home.
|
||||
Camille in Berlin.
|
||||
Sibylle, Wolfgang & Florian to Mozambique.
|
||||
Dominik to Norway.
|
||||
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
<div style="text-align:center">
|
||||
<strong><3</strong>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
Loading…
Add table
Reference in a new issue