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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">My 2019 Review</h1> |
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2020-01-03 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/year/">#year</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/2019/">#2019</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/review/">#review</a> |
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<p>This year, I decided to make some review of what happened last year, to me.</p> |
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<p>2019 can be called "The Year I Rode".</p> |
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<p>In 2018 I did some presentations on <a href="https://tchelinux.org/">Tchelinux</a>, and |
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2019 started with a "Let's just ride all the way to the border" from my |
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cousin. The result is that, in 2019, I did presentations in 13 of the 15 |
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events Tchelinux promoted. I spoked about Rust 8 times, how people can help |
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open source projects 7 times, stream processing 5 times, Python 4 times (with |
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one I basically took over from another friend that couldn't get to the event) |
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and testing 2 times.</p> |
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<p>Honestly, I did enjoy the combination of presentations and riding. My |
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psychiatrist mentioned I seemed better after all that (she basically |
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complained that I should get "more in touch with nature" and such, which I |
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guess it could count, if you see the amount of trees there are around the |
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roads). I also got a brand new interest in the presentations, to the point |
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that I'm already studying some new topics for presentations.</p> |
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<p>I got so into doing technical presentations that in the end of 2019 I applied |
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for the <a href="https://events.mozilla.org/techspeakers">Mozilla Tech Speakers</a>, |
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although the answer will only come in 2020. Fingers crossed.</p> |
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<p>I also rode all the way from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre">Porto |
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Alegre</a> to |
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montevideo">Montevideo</a>, which took about 12 |
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hours (24 total, back and forth), just to be there for 3 days for <a href="https://rustlatam.org/">Rust |
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Latam</a>.</p> |
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<p>Speaking of Rust, this year I added "Rust in POA" as my other Meetup -- I |
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already help organize PyTche and took Rust in POA when it was about to be |
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deactivated. Also, I think this year I finally managed to write some code that |
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actually let the compiler happy -- and I'm still using it! And I still way |
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more personal projects I want to experiment in Rust.</p> |
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<p>But my coding life wasn't just about Rust. This year I got deep into Java 8 |
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and, honestly, the experience wasn't as bad as I recalled from Java 2. Streams |
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and Optionals are, basically, my everyday tools now. We are in a dysfunctional |
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relationship, but it actually works.</p> |
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<p>I did some other tech changes: I dropped Evernote and moved everything I had |
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to <a href="https://nextcloud.com/">NextCloud</a> and <a href="https://joplinapp.org/">Joplin</a>. |
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It always bugged me that I kept pushing to "Own your platform", but my heavy |
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content was in a platform I had no control over it. Now I do.</p> |
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<p>Speaking of "owning your platform", I become way more active on |
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<a href="https://functional.cafe/@juliobiason">Mastodon</a>. Although it's not running on |
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my own platform (yet), it's open source and I can take my data any time I want |
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-- and move to another place with no issues. You can take your |
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Twitter/Facebook data, but can you put it somewhere else? I don't think so.</p> |
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<p>I also moved a bunch of stuff to my <a href="https://juliobiason.me">new domain</a>. So, |
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again, owning my platform.</p> |
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<p>Out of the tech sphere, I found |
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave">Synthwave</a>, which basically is |
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consuming all my music listening hours (including when I'm writing this post).</p> |
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<p>So, good year, right? No so much.</p> |
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<p>Since the mid of 2018, I'm feeling really burnt out, and although the change |
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of pace is helping, I'm still not feeling 100% productive. I mentioned a lot |
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of personal projects, but I only check them half-hour after lunch; I don't |
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feel like going anywhere near code after the end of my working hours. This is |
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really annoying, 'cause I have a bunch of things I want to automate, but doing |
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any sort of code outside the office feels... painful. This is a complete |
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different picture from 2008 (I know, that was 11 years ago) when I would get |
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to work, code code code, go back home and then code some more. I have strong |
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hopes of getting some vacation and finally "get fixed".</p> |
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<p>Insomnia is still part of my nights. I'm taking meds now to help me sleep. The |
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only good side of this is that it help me read 32 books this year (you may |
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have seen the reviews in this blog).</p> |
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<p>2019 was also the year I feared for some friends. There is a strong alt-right |
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movement in the country -- specially after the alt-right candidate was elected |
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-- and I feared mostly for my friends. I also felt guilty for not standing |
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that up as I should: I'm white, male and cis, and I'm pretty sure I won't be a |
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target, and that's why I should be in the front lines, but I'm too much of a |
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coward to do so.</p> |
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<p>Also, this year I lost two people. The first one was a new friend I made on |
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Rust in POA. He was one of the people that <em>really</em> understood Rust. I still |
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feel kinda guilty about this, 'cause I saw he had some depressing posts on |
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Twitter and it took me way to long to talk to him before it happened.</p> |
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<p>The second person was my uncle. He was the guy who was only 13 years old than |
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me, did the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela">Santiago de |
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Compostela</a> pilgrimage |
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route about four (or even five) times, was cycling all the time, did |
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marathons. And, suddenly, heart attack. He was the guy I would expect to make |
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fun of <em>my</em> funeral.</p> |
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<p>But what about 2020?</p> |
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<p>First, personally, I really <em>really</em> hoping this stupid burn out will go away |
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after vacations, so I can finally fix my own digital life.</p> |
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<p>Second, I'll keep my presentations. I also hope I get selected for Tech |
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Speaker, only to have more stuff to talk about.</p> |
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<p>Third, for the fucks sake, I hope I won't lose anyone else, 'cause even after |
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all this time, I still don't know how to handle these loses (I still feel bad |
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when my gramma passed away, and that was 10 years ago).</p> |
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