Here’s the highlights from the previous year, in roughly chronological order. I’ll link any related blog posts that I made regarding the highlight.

Highlights

• I started this blog!
• I wrote a GameBoy game
• I started (and quit) a job with MLB
• I did odd jobs for side cash
• I wrote an emulator for RGB LED matrices
  • Related posts:
    • Building Raspberry Pi LED Scoreboards (11/11)
• I bought a home
• I wrote my own programming language
• I started a new role as a software engineer with ID.me (I didn’t quit this one!)
  • Related posts:
    • Job Searching Without Leetcode (8/17)
    • Transitioning Out of My First Developer Job (9/10)
    • Landing an Interview as a Junior Developer (9/3)
• I read a lot of books
  • Related posts:
    • Staff Engineer (11/1)
    • Custom Printing Obscure Technical Manuals (12/6)
  • Not covered yet: The Martian, the Witcher series, the Dune series, and lots and lots of technical books!
• I had my code (and this blog!) featured in Ruby Weekly
  • Ruby Weekly #577 (11/4)
  • Related posts:
    • Metaprogramming Smarter Hashes in Ruby (8/23)
• I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator interpreter:
  • ChipPy8 GitHub
• I participated in Hacktoberfest (as a maintainer) and Advent of Code 2021
  • Related posts:
    • Hacktoberfest (10/15)
    • Advent of Code (12/28)
  • Advent of Code 2021 GitHub

Here’s to even better in 2022!

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading!

(EDIT 12/28: Added link to new Advent of Code 2021 post.)