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Goals for 2020 and 2019 Retrospect
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- James Acres
Last year's post: Goals for 2019 and 2018 Retrospect
Goals for 2020
As a Human:
- 👟 Running weekly
- 🏃♂️ Run Great Bristol 10k
- 🚴♂️ Cycling weekly with Zwift and out in the summer
- 🏖 Go abroad on holiday and mini weekend breaks
- 🎷 Go to shows and gigs
- 👨👩👧👦 See family more often
- 🍻 See friends more often
- 🌶 Cook some new recipes
- 📚 Continue reading
As a Developer:
- 👨💻 Focus on next level quality, unit tested, clean code
- 🚀 Proactively focusing my time on developing awesome products
- 📝 Documenting, Presenting, Leading positively in the team
- 🌻 Continue this blog, business Bubbly Clouds and side projects
2019 Retrospect
The "✅" emoji sums up 2019 nicely. The highlights...
As a Human:
- 🏡 Bought a house - Bristol is now home!
- 🐓 New Job - Senior Developer @ RoosterMoney - The pocket money app trusted by over 700,000 parents and kids.
- 🎭 Shows, Gigs, Events: Everyone's talking about Jamie, & Juliet, Liz Phair, Bristol Comedy Garden, Bristol Pride, St Paul's Carnival
- 🚗 Trips: Bournemouth, Forest of Dean, Cheddar, Glastonbury, London, Taunton->Bristol
As a Developer:
- ✅ Spent the year working on fintech integrations
- ✅ Specialised further in Node and Typescript
- ✅ Unit testing micro services with Jest
- ✅ Worked with various other new tools, linters including prettier and ts-lint, Swagger API definitions, Postgres with TypeORM.