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title: "2022 in many words and some photos"
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published_date: "2022-12-31 18:50:00 +0100"
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It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
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I did so in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
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Let's look at 2022 now.
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It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
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I did so in
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[2021](/2021/12/31/2021-in-many-words/),
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[2020](/2020/12/31/2020-in-many-words/),
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[2019](/2019/12/30/2019-in-many-words/),
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[2018](/2018/12/27/2018-in-many-words/),
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[2017](/2017/12/31/2017-in-many-words/),
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[2016](/2016/12/31/2016-in-many-words/),
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[2015](/2015/12/31/2015-in-many-words/)
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and [2014](/2014/12/29/2014-in-many-words/).
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### My year in numbers
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I actively attended 5 conferences this year (I think? I lost track).
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In February we ran RustFest LATAM ([Playlist of all talk recordings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYeg8dB_68o&list=PL85XCvVPmGQiT5Ug60zPQ_t9j3dHyawcy)).
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This was a huge success!
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Unfortunately we had to cancel the planned EMEA edition in April.
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In March I flew to Bergen to attend [BoosterConf](https://2022.boosterconf.no/).
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My first big in-person conference after 2 years without!
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Together with [Daan](https://twitter.com/daan_van_berkel) I ran the "PostScript; how to talk to your printer" workshop
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([Material](https://fifth-postulate.nl/postscript-whisperer/guide/index.html)).
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[RustConf](https://rustconf.com/) happened in August; I attended online.
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In October [EuroRust](https://eurorust.eu/) happened in Berlin, a new Rust conference where I helped as an advisor to the main organizers.
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This is the first time we labeled an event as part of the [RustFest family](https://rustfest.world/).
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Just before the end of my work year I remotely attended [NormConf](https://normconf.com/).
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Check it out, all talks (and lightning talks!) are [available online](https://www.youtube.com/@normconf).
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I published 8 blog posts this year (including this one).
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I planned to have a 4-post series, but never got around to finish it (still no promises for next year!).
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I also now have two short drafts that I plan to post in the coming weeks.
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This time around I didn't keep close track of all documents I wrote for work,
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but it was likely similar to the year before.
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For over a year now I'm running my own [Datasette] instance, auto-importing a bunch of data, such as my tweets,
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but also data from my phone and weather station at home.
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In theory this should make it easier to query the data too!
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GitHub says I made ~~1406~~ 3181 contributions in the last year.
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The raw numbers here obviously don't reflect all the other stuff I'm involved in.
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I posted 68 pictures and videos on Instagram (and I don't know how many stories).
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Again less than the year before, but I likely sent many more pictures to friends and family this time,
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and also have some private picture galleries up.
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My `~/photos/2022` directory only contains 720 photos and videos this time,
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but that's because most photos now reside on my phone (and in backups).
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My Photos library has 5317 photos and videos from 2022. There's likely some overlap with the other files.
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Since Twitter changed ownership and more and more people stopped using it I used it less as well.
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For now I still occasionally use it. I might end that sometime in 2023 though.
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I wrote 1756 tweets, with about a thousand in reply to someone (that includes self-replies in a thread though) and 205 retweets.
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The last time it was lower was 2010!
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In November I created a new Mastodon account ([@jer@hachyderm.io](https://hachyderm.io/@jer)) and started using it a bit more.
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So far I'm up to ~~78~~ 79 posts.
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Unfortunately something broke and I don't have accurate data on my workouts anymore, at least for the second half the year (it's all safely stored on my phone though).
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It seems that Apple Healthkit changed its data format and the importer I use can currently not correctly parse the information.
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I will have to fix that.
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Regardless, I kept a pretty good workout schedule in the earlier half of the year,
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but had to let it slip in the fall (first because I was on vacation, after that because of some injuries).
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I hope to pick that up again in the new year and vary the workout a bit more than just running and Handball.
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[datasette]: https://datasette.io/
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### My year in photos and words
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I stayed in Berlin for New Year's Eve and celebrated with friends.
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January was busy with work.
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My sister moved into a new house that January and so I went home to see it in February.
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Once I was back I got my remaining wisdom teeth removed.
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I also had to deal with a severely sprained hand, which took more than 4 weeks to properly heal.
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RustFest LATAM also happened that month.
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In March I then flew to Bergen for BoosterConf and another week of vacation, filled with hiking and relaxing.
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For Easter I was back with the family.
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May and June I enjoyed the warm weather outside.
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Those months were filled with lots of friend visits, drinks in the park, good food and concerts.
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By the end of June I boarded a plane again to fly to ... Bergen, once again.
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After 3 days on my own my parents picked me up with their camper van.
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We traveled north for 2 weeks, stopping every other day.
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The weather was what we call "durchwachsen" (mixed).
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We started in perfect summer weather, hiking in shorts and t-shirts.
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This was followed by 4 days of non-stop rain.
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That still didn't stop us from hiking, but also made the sauna very much enjoyable to warm up again.
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We got up to Åndalsnes.
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My parents traveled further, but I took the train towards Oslo.
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Probably the most gorgeous and enjoyable train ride I did so far.
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In Oslo I met up with [Flaki](https://flaki.social/@flaki) and other friends.
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We then took the ferry to Copenhagen and I took the train from there back to Germany.
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Total accumulated train delay from Åndalsnes to Berlin: 25 Minutes.
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By July I was back in Berlin and enjoyed the summer there.
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In September I flew to New York, giving me 2 1/2 days to explore the city.
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I did all the touristy stuff and got to see the Hamilton musical on Broadway together with my colleague Linh.
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I had to fly onwards to O'ahu, Hawaii, for a week of work at the Mozilla All-Hands followed by another week of vacation with 3 of my Berlin colleagues.
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Highlight of the trip was the helicopter tour over the island of Kauai.
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Once I was back the next trip wasn't far away.
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I spent a couple of days of October in Oslo.
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In November I was at 3 different concerts and attended the wedding of an old friend from university.
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December got more quiet again, wrapping up the year at work, before I headed home for Christmas with my family.
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And now I'm sitting in northern Norway, after we left Germany earlier this week.
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This means I was up here for every season of the year now.
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One could say I might like coming to Norway.
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We'll spent another week up here in the north, starting the year in a "koselig" (Norwegian for cozy) lodge,
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before we head back to Germany.
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### The Future
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Looking back now 2022 started slow, but was then filled with quite some travel as well as friends and family visits.
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2023 will start different, I'm not in Berlin for a start!
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Some visits are already planned and my travel list is definitely not getting shorter.
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Let's see which of these things I can make happen in the new year.
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Work-wise I hope to take up some new challenges, expanding my role at Mozilla.
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The data team sure has a filled list of things we might want to tackle
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and I will have to see how to make best use of my knowledge and expertise,
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but also how to grow in my role and how to support others best.
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Now that we had a first RustFest family event in 2022, I would like to push forward with the RustFest project.
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We need to write down our ideas, policies and guidelines on how we want to run our events
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and how we can support others to run their events, too.
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This has been in our heads for long enough and needs some active work now.
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Thanks to everyone who I met, talked to, worked with, traveled with, who had lunch, dinner or coffee with me or who I cooked or baked for.
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