January 4, 2012

2011 in Review

It's time to wrap up the year that's been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here.

2011 Geek Achievements

1. Wrote three games this year:
   1. My-Minions
   2. Grand Thief Arto
   3. Sat-E
2. Bought a new computer!
3. Bought a mechanical keyboard.
4. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the keyboard.
5. Learned 68k assembly.
6. Learned about algorithms and data structures.
7. Bought a lot of programming books.
   1. The Pragmatic Programmer
   2. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
   3. Introduction to Algorithms
   4. Modern Perl
   5. Effective Java
   6. Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
   7. Land of Lisp
   8. Maybe something more...
8. Read a lot of programming books. Modern Perl and The Pragmatic Programmer were my favourites.
9. Learned some Ada.
10. Learned a lot of Perl.
11. Learned a tiny bit of Haskell.
12. Learned some emacs
13. Got a hint of design understanding thanks to Design for Hackers

2011 Non-Geek Achievements

1. Went to a dance course with Veronica.
2. My stumach is in good shape!
3. Read and loved A Song of Ice and Fire.
4. Achieved 7 kup in Taekwon-do.
5. Read a lot of manga. Some recommendations:
   1. Bakuman. A nice slice of life manga about... making manga. Surprisingly captivating.
   2. Gamaran. A slightly brutal battle manga with loads of weapons.
   3. Vinland Saga. A bit more brutal battle manga about vikings and war.
   4. Beelzebub. Battle manga but with a ton of light hearted humor.
   5. The Breaker. Another battle manga, a bit more direct perhaps.

2011 Failures

1. Didn't produce enough games.
2. Didn't write enough code.
3. Did not learn enough Haskell.
4. Have a lot of books I haven't read yet.
5. Did not have enough free time.

Plans for 2012

1. Keep Veronica happy!
2. Make more games.
3. Code more! Much more!
4. Blog more!
5. Learn more Haskell (yet again)...
6. Transform my site to something new, something that I don't dread to use.
7. Improve in Taekwon-do.
8. Be more disciplined in studying, coding, training and cleaning.
9. Read the programming books I have but have not read yet.
   1. A book about Erlang.
   2. K&R C Programming language.
   3. SICP, all important for every programmers. I hear.
   4. Probably missed something... Damn I've got many.
10. Get good results in school.
11. Try to be a bit more social (it's hard).
12. Get more free time somehow.
13. Complete a larger personal project.
14. Learn more mathematics.

January 6, 2011

2010 in review

I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea actually.

2010 Geek Achievements

1. Wrote a few games earlier this year;
   1. The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros
   2. A Geek Valentine
   3. Beebop The Island Hopper
   4. Where's Teddy?
2. Updated this site a bit.
3. In the process I learned a lot of PHP, Javascript, mysql and design. Fun and useful.
4. Switched to Slackware which I like a ton better than Ubuntu.
5. Learned a lot more linux. Thanks Slackware.
6. Learned a lot more git.
7. Learned a lot more vim.
8. Tried out and configured uzbl which I still use.
9. Learned a bit of Haskell.
10. Tried out Perl a bit.
11. Learned a lot more Lisp.
12. Switched to zsh. It's fine after a bit of config
13. Rebuilt a custom Kernel a few times, some failures but learned a lot. And got starcraft 2 to work!
14. Read a lot. This years high were One Piece and Jefferey Deaver. Real World Haskell scores the highest Geek score.

2010 Non-Geek Achievements

1. Moved to Linköping with my girlfriend Veronica and I didn't just survive but I also liked it!
2. Enrolled in a Linköpings University in Computer Science. We'll see if it'll get geeky later, atm it's a breeze but we have a ton of seemingly fun courses to go.
3. Took a massage course.
4. Learned how to cook more than one dish.
5. Did the dishes, expertly maneuvered our vacuum cleaner and did the laundry. More than once!
6. Started Taekwondo and after a few months of hard work I even got a yellow stripe for my white belt!

2010 Failures

1. Didn't produce enough games.
2. Didn't write enough code.
3. Got worse in my stumach towards the end of the year. Too stressed and not enough regular meals I guess.
4. Didn't blog enough. Sorry :(

Plans for 2011

1. Get good results in school.
2. Make more games.
3. Code more!
4. Blog more!
5. Learn more Haskell (again). This time continue with the small irc bot I'm writing.
6. Learn a few more languages and expand my knowledge. Maybe some low level stuff with C or assembly? Or some more higher level?
7. Get a better sense of algorithms.
8. Try to be a bit more social
9. Get a new belt in Taekwondo.
10. Be a bit more disciplined with training, coding and school.
11. Loosen up a bit more so the stumach won't mess anymore.
12. Last but not least, keep Veronica happy and help around at home.

I thought I didn't do anything this year I guess it's been a productive year anyway. But in 2011 I think I'll do a lot more still.