On 11/12/13 02:44 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > I thought we'd enjoy a bit of reminiscing of the past year and talk > about our plans for the future, whether it's something personal or > D-related that anyone is willing to publicly talk about. It should be > a fun topic, or so I hope! :) So let me begin.. > > Generally this has been an awesome year for me. This year I've become > a part of the D core team, which is not something I even planned for, > but I'm really grateful it happened. It's an awesome team to be in! > > Another thing that happened, is that after many years promising myself > that "this year" was going to be the one where I get in shape and live > a healthy life, it turns out that 2013 was that year! I've lost 20 Kg > (44 lbs) this year and now my BMI is in the normal range at around > 22.4 BMI. It was 28.4 BMI at 95 KG (209 lbs) at the start of the year. > It wasn't just frequent exercise that helped me lose weight. I started > eating healthy food, and now spinach, kale, beets, and other > vegetables are a permanent part of my diet. I wouldn't dream of saying > this last year, but steamed veggies are absolutely delicious!! > > As for my future plans, I'm hoping to land myself a nice > programming-related job next year. I've never had a programming job, > most of the paid work I ever did was physical work, such as drilling > through bricks, rock, concrete, installing and repairing air > conditioners, installing central heating systems, lighting and > electrical work, and stuff like that. > > I also want to and plan to study algorithms this year. Whenever some > algorithm-related discussion popped up in the newsgroups I would > typically avoid giving any input as most of the conversation would go > over my head. But I'm gonna bite down and study hard, I really want to > "grok" it. > > Ok, so who's next who wants to share? >
2013: Most of my major accomplishments deal with me becoming more confident in myself - Running for a leadership position (twice) (first time I didn't get it, finding out the second tonight), publicly announcing a library I've developed for the first time, coming out to family and friends, going to more Hackathons and demoing more things I've built. I also got a chance to work on some kind of interesting projects, including giving most of my other-language code a bit of a D accent. Whoops. My Python got interesting for a while. Got put onto a large(r) project at my co-op, something that directly affects dozens of shipped products as well as rewriting a tool to help with testing all those products. 2014: Goals include: Winning that election Becoming more involved in open-source development (and "hacktivism" as my friend/professor puts it). Start learning more about programming language design and theory - I'll be taking a class on it, but I'd like to learn more about how it works in the "real world", not just academia. Get in better shape - I'm extremely scrawny and want to put a little bit of muscle on - rock climbing is helping with that. Biggest goal: teach others. I have several seminars lined up to present to local students at RIT, including some on D and Python. -- Matt Soucy http://msoucy.me/
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