Early last year I decided to set a few goals, and this January cold has me wanting to reflect on them.
These were all "professional" goals, in the sense that they were related to my profession (programming, software engineering, or whatever else you wanna' call it).
First the TL;DR:
Score: 4/5
I'm much, much better at this now.
Part of it is likely the shift of my programming time towards the backend (Python), but I think the conscious effort I put forth also helped. I don't have any useful metrics, but my gut feeling is that this has improved my productivity. It's certainly improved how I feel about it, and fighting my impostor syndrome alone is a net win.
I learned a language I didn't initially even plan on learning just to make myself a small, useful tool!
Well, I believe at least one person other than me is using GHT.vim, so I'm gonna' call this one a win.
I also started VimFeed and Projectery, which may be of minor interest to some, at least. (Fun fact: they'd both benefit from contributions, and you can do so here and here.)
Nothing huge here—just bought some stickers and started preaching.
No go, and that's OK.
I thought (and still think) it would be cool to make something more universally appealing (as opposed to all the programmer-centric things I'm usually making), but it seems that I'm just not interested enough in games to persevere.
Four out of five isn't great, but it'll (have to) do.
In a few days I'll write up some goals for 2017 and see how that goes. Perhaps predictably, the next round of goals will be a little…loftier.
Happy New Year!
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