Before last year, I had not put together an improvement plan for myself for at least 10 years. Putting down my thoughts on how to get better as a developer really did help. While I didn’t do all the things I set out to do, I did make progress towards last year’s general theme of putting myself out there more:
✔️️ Started a blog to work on my technical writing
✔️ Attended several local meetups
✔️ Was interviewed by The Cynical Developer Podcast about Code Reviews
✔️ Contributed to a couple open source projects
✔️ Completed Wes Bos’s #JavaScript30 course
However, I did miss the mark in some other areas by not doing the following:
😢 Didn’t take Wes Bos’s CSS Grid course
😢 Fell short meeting my Codewars goal
😢 Didn’t create a bot for slack or twitter
Overall, I’m still quite 😀 and this year I’m planning to do more and expand my goals to also cover some non-developer areas of my life. Also, last year I kept my plan to myself. This year I’m going to make it public in an effort to help keep me on track.
Personal Health
- Lose 25 lbs
- Stop drinking pop but mainly stop drinking diet coke
- Reduce coffee consumption to 2 to 3 cups a day and only drink it before 12pm
- Go to the doctor for a physical
- Train and run 2 5k races
Professional
- Average writing 2 blog posts a month to continue improving my writing
- Continue to contribute to the QIT open source project
- Attend at least 6 local meetups
- Present at a local meetup
- Increase my Codewars points to 700
- Complete Wes Bos’s CSS Grid course
- Research Areas:
