Year 6
I've been posting on this blog for 5 full years now. At first it was almost every week, then a few times a month, then every month. Now this.
I think my last year can be gleamed from my GitHub commit history. Starting from 2014.
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In 2014 I was in the second half of my sophomore year and in the first half of my middler year, I was working on Twixel, a Twitch.TV API library and Windows store app, my roommates and I made a quotes website for one of our parties, and I created GLX, a MonoGame library that I later used in my Capstone project senior year. The crazy thing about GLX is that some of the code comes from a XNA library that I made back in 2010. 2014 was also the year I really started using GitHub, Twixel's first commit was in December of 2013, I created my GitHub account in June of 2012 and the only other code thing I had put on the internet was on CodePlex in 2010.
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2015 included Attention Passengers, the release of Twixel on the store 7 months after I had started working on it, some school projects, the start of my first VSCode extension, and the YHackSlackPack.
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2016 marked another hackathon project, the birth of botbot (a useless Slack bot), the box (a LED light box that responds to music, which I wanted to build since 2014, and I plan to remake it this year), more school projects, the beginnings of HackBeanpot 2016, and my first commits to Signal for Windows.
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The first half of 2017 was mainly marked by my Capstone project, that used GLX, but I also built another music visualizer, and a SMS based board game for a class. Then in the end of May/the beginning of June I moved to Seattle. In the second half of 2017 I made another VSCode extension, and I worked on Signal enough to push it to the store for people to try out.
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Now, back to 2018. I didn't work on personal projects as much in 2018. I started the year expecting to publish a post about Signal every month, I only made two. I randomly started working on a Spotify app for Windows Phone. Only to stop working on it about two weeks after I started. Then I didn't commit at all for almost two months.
So what happened? I don't really know. My life didn't really change between the second half of 2017 and right now. I've been in Seattle the entire time, I go to work every day, and I come home around the same time every day. I don't have as much unstructured free time as I did in college but even when I first started my job I still worked on other code projects. Now, it looks like, work broke my habit of working on other things. I honestly didn't think that would happen but when I get home after coding for 6+ hours coding more at home is very very low on my priority list. That's kind of sad considering how much I loved making random shit for the last 4 years before 2018. Maybe it's just a part of growing up.
In 2019, I've told myself that I'm going to try and text my friends more, I'm going to start working on Signal again, but I also think I need to find a balance in my life where I really enjoy coding at home again. The reason I even went to school for Computer Science and Game Design was because of the small games and programs I started making almost 10 years ago. It really wouldn't sit well with me if I stopped doing that, less than two years into working full time.
Who knows what 2019 might bring, what changes might occur, and what challenges I may face, continuing to get older is not that much fun anymore, it's just a part of life now. But hopefully I can make the best of it.