I wrote a "year in review" thing every year since I started having a website up in 2016, but back then being a depressed teenager with not much going on in their life apart from study & cry they were all kind of boring, now they're all gone I'm starting over :)

This year I have actual life events though 🎉 in order from start to end of the year:

• Moved out from home & in with my boyfriend: Away from horrible North England and into much nicer Wales
• Got my first developer job: Full-stack at a small business, was there for all of three-ish weeks before lockdown started & perma-work from home thereon after. I learned a lot from this place & it was probably the best 'first dev job' I could've hoped for; no super-intense pace, interesting greenfield project, very kind group of people, awesome manager & a stack I was already confident with
• Learned TypeScript + tonnes of other technologies: Related to the previous, in no particular order I've learned:
  • TypeScript (+ Express a lot more)
  • Angular, RxJS, Pub-Sub pattern
  • Docker + Kubernetes
  • Redis, InfluxDB, Chronograf
  • PostgreSQL + TypeORM, MongoDB + mongoose
  • Vercel Serverless, AWS Textract, SNS & SQS
  • Micro-services & task runners / queues
  • Neo4j + cypher
  • mocha & chai (lord i loathe testing)
  • RabbitMQ / MQTT
• Started growing plants: Bought a huge shelf and stacked it with lights & sensors and all other IoT stuff
• Got my first raise
• Went to Belgium (again): 😉
• Left my first developer job
• Joined a startup incubator
• Became a bird whisperer: Got myself a bird feeder & now I'm this apartment complexes social club for birds
• Incorporated a company: Suppose now I'm a CTO of sorts in a startup with 4 other people, we're building a livestream & VOD service for performance arts, with all the experience of my last job so far a tonne of progress has been made
• Went out into town: On a double date I guess? Normally I never would've done something like this being an anxious person and whatnot
• Started learning a second language (Norwegian): Got tired of learning programming languages so learning a real one now, det går bra :)
• First Christmas from home: Thanks very much Mark Drakeford 😠

Things I want to do next year:

• Finish the Duolingo tree
• Get to B2 CEFR level Bergentest kanksje?
• Improve fitness: Get back into running again, lose some weight yada yada
• Release the MVP: Q2 2021...? + funding pls
• Sell some microgreens at the local farmers market
• Go on holiday to either Norway/Japan: Test out my language skillz or my boyfriends' japanese - maybe both?
• Stop trying to achieve perfection
• voice training

Things I'd like to do next year:

• Add i18n to this site: Norwegian translations, maybe even a dark mode too
• Dress more fashionably: Currently I just wear oversized hoodies and yeah, maybe try some makeup other than concealer too while I'm at it?
• Soft skills: Be a better communicator & time management, agile schtuff
• Make mistakes
• Maybe climb Snowdon:

ja, det er alt - her er til 2021 🥰 vær ikke forferdelig