My 2018 Year in Review

My 2018 Year in Review

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So here’s my 2018 Resolutions.

Did I complete them all? No, but honestly it’s not a big deal.
  • Continue to contribute to open source: Mission accomplished 🚀. I continued to be a collaborator on react-slingshot and contributed some work there this year, fielded some issues etc.
The https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot repository on GitHubOpenGraph image for https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot

My other focus was the dev.to repository.

The https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to repository on GitHubOpenGraph image for https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to

I was accepted as an early contributor before the project went open source and continued to contribute after it went public. It felt really good to be the first contributor outside of the core team to have a PR merged.

Although I didn’t contribute to TypeScript or VS Code, I’m still very happy with this year’s contributions.

My Mac Setup
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The https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/the-7-most-popular-dev-posts-from-the-past-week-4pno repository on GitHub

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The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week
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Work and life got busy so not as much blogging as I’d had hoped.
The https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/quick-hulk-code-pen-18i1/ repository on GitHubOpenGraph image for https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/quick-hulk-code-pen-18i1/
Quick Hulk Code Pen
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The https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/quick-simple-rating-code-pen-3ecp/ repository on GitHubOpenGraph image for https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/quick-simple-rating-code-pen-3ecp/
A Simple ⭐ Rating Code Pen
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The https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/probably-another-battleship-board-on-codepenio-coverimage-httpsc1staticflickrcom7609963333175677fc467e409ojpg--4n7m/ repository on GitHubOpenGraph image for https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/probably-another-battleship-board-on-codepenio-coverimage-httpsc1staticflickrcom7609963333175677fc467e409ojpg--4n7m/
Probably another Battleship board on Code Pen
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The https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/a--notification-code-pen-4o0n/ repository on GitHubOpenGraph image for https://www.iamdeveloper.com/posts/a--notification-code-pen-4o0n/
A 💩 Notification Code Pen
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See the Pen https://codepen.io/nickytonline/pen/ppMmyZ by nickytonline (@nickytonline) on CodePen.

Having said that, I highly recommend this tool for offline reading. I’m gonna try and catch up on some reading while I head away to a chalet for a few days.

It’s fun making resolutions, but honestly, I did not lose any sleep over not completing some of these. Aside from resolutions, it was a busy year in work land and in the fall I decided to move on to an amazing role at Autodesk on the Shotgun team.

- Still alive and kicking
- Solid contributions to OSS
- Landed an awesome gig at @autodesk working on the @shotgunsoftware team https://t.co/jMpiZ7Vdio

— Nick Taylor (he/him) (@nickytonline) December 28, 2018

Prior to starting work, I attended a week long conference with the whole team. We’re distributed, so they try to have these team conferences once or every two years. As a brand new employee who hadn’t even started work yet, it was amazing to meet, wine/dine with my future co-workers and work on ways to improve the product. I’ve been loving it since day 1. Great work/life balance and all the good things you look for in a job. 💯

Aside from the new gig, I'm about to pass 12000 followers on dev.to! 🔥

So as we close off 2018, I just want to say thanks to the dev.to core team and the community. You're all great.

That's all folks!

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