2019 review
01 Jan 2020
Thank you to everyone who has read or supported my blog over the past year, I really appreciate it. To coin a new yearly habit:
2019 review
I had a baby. For more details, start at the post “Childbirth: a father’s eye view” and work forwards.
I started writing a book called “Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners”, based on my blog post series of the same name. I also started a new mailing list of weekly tips for Advanced Beginners. I held 20 office hours sessions, and published my first video series about programming. I don’t think the videos were particularly good, but I’m excited about the book. I published 38 blog posts. My favorites were:
- Making peace with Simpson’s Paradox
- I was 7 words away from being spear-phished
- Peeking through stock option exercise windows
I took a 3 month sabbatical from work to intern at a charity called GiveWell. Then I went back to work and joined a new team, where we hunt for malicious actors inside our networks.
I got to silver rank in Rocket League.
2020 plans
- Finish and publish “Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners” book
- Take 4 months of parental leave
- Publish to my new Advanced Beginners mailing list once a week for the entire year
- Publish 25 normal blog posts
- More office hours (no targets)
- Release 5 track synthwave EP
See you this time next year.
Thank you to everyone who has read or supported my blog over the past year, I really appreciate it. To coin a new yearly habit:
2019 review
I had a baby. For more details, start at the post “Childbirth: a father’s eye view” and work forwards.
I started writing a book called “Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners”, based on my blog post series of the same name. I also started a new mailing list of weekly tips for Advanced Beginners. I held 20 office hours sessions, and published my first video series about programming. I don’t think the videos were particularly good, but I’m excited about the book. I published 38 blog posts. My favorites were:
- Making peace with Simpson’s Paradox
- I was 7 words away from being spear-phished
- Peeking through stock option exercise windows
I took a 3 month sabbatical from work to intern at a charity called GiveWell. Then I went back to work and joined a new team, where we hunt for malicious actors inside our networks.
I got to silver rank in Rocket League.
2020 plans
- Finish and publish “Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners” book
- Take 4 months of parental leave
- Publish to my new Advanced Beginners mailing list once a week for the entire year
- Publish 25 normal blog posts
- More office hours (no targets)
- Release 5 track synthwave EP
See you this time next year.