To 2018 and beyond
2018-01-01
Last modified on 2021-05-24It's that time again...
This year was not an easy one for me, switching between too many contexts for too long. This explains why I almost stopped coding outside of work I think. I am reassured when I read this like this post from Julia Evans «Learning at work», especially this:
Don’t learn programming languages/frameworks outside of work
On this blog I am often too negative... I really want to be more positive !
Writing
I wrote a few things on this blog, and I want to write more (as always).
Once again, I contributed to the blog of SFEIR:
- An interview of Romain Maton at Devoxx France.
- An interview of jbd at dotGo.
- A soon to be release interview of Tim Carry at dotCSS.
- A it-will-be-release-some-day interview of Clever Cloud's Quentin Adam at Devoxx France.
I also joined the french gopher initiative to create french content about the Go programming language:
- An interview of jbd at dotGo.
- A translation article of Francesc about the most common identifier in Go's stdlib.
Speaking
I gave some talks internally:
- one about CSRF and how to apply the frontend part in most frameworks.
- an introduction to the Go Programming language and the tools around it.
- I organized a round table about the state of JavaScript.
I was really glad to be invited by MiXiT to share my personal view on the (in)famous JavaScript fatigue. That was a pretty cool experience and an amazing conference: see it here.
I will be speaking at SnowCamp in a few weeks !
Teaching
That is a new thing in this yearly posts ! At SFEIR we have some trainings called SFEIR School; they are free and open to everyone, we give 2 of them every month !
Node.js
I worked on a Node.js training and gave it twice, another colleague gave it once. It was a good experience.
Go
I was the trainer (Sébastien) 's assistant for a one-day training about the Go Programming Language. Super cool !
Japanese
We create a SFEIR School with my wife: an introduction to the Japanese language !
Magic
I spent too much time on youtube watching magic videos... So I started learning it, and we organized with my colleague Rudy a SFEIR School about magic !
The following video is exactly what we can not do at this time: Shin Lim's EPIC Return to Penn & Teller // Season 4
Programming
That was a lazy year. I learn to disconnect when I am at home, I will tell you more about that soon.
beulogue has been discontinued. That was fun. Here is the final source code:
'use strict';
const path = require('path');
const pkg = require(path.resolve(__dirname, './package.json'));
console.log(`
beulogue v${pkg.version} #EOL
=====================
Beulogue was a nice experiment, and it's the end. Peace.
Go get a real static site generator at https://gohugo.io/ or find one at https://www.staticgen.com/ !
`);
This blog is currently built using Hugo, which is awesome !
I updated jisho-go. It works on my computer :p
Computers and stuff
I switched my work computer for a Dell XPS 13 (using Arch Linux), and it is pretty cool.
I finally managed to use mutt with Fastmail. This year I will configure it with my Gmail accounts :)
I switched to Firefox, I hope I will be able to switch to qutebrowser for real this year.
I still want to learn ClojureScript.
Here is a list of things I will not spend my personal time on:
- Chatbots and assistants
- Mobile
- Blockchain
Various
Last year I wrote that I wanted to get my black belt in karate. I got it !
I read some books, and I still want to read more.
Cool stuff I watched:
- Stranger Things 2
- Dark
- Preacher
- Rick & Morty Season 3
- The Good Place
- Baby Driver
- Creepy
Things I want to watch:
- The Handmaid's Tale
- American Vandal
- Norsemen
- It
And the album of the year:
Happy new year !
As I say every year:
Happy new year to everybody who will have a happy year. For the others, stay strong and let's hope 2019 will be here promptly.