2021, a look back

#yearinreview

2021 was an amazing and a not-so-amazing here. Some really good and bad things happened during it, growing me as a person.

As the year has ended and we're onto 2022, I wanted to take a second back and reflect on the past year.

💻 Coding & Technical Achievements

Gave my first talk at a meetup (Prisma Meetup #7)
Switched to Arch Linux
Riced my desktop
Built my own PC! (Ryzen 7 w/ iGPU, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD)
Got started with AP Comp Sci A
Reached 75 followers on GitHub
Ended with a total of 550+ followers on dev.to!
Redesigned my portfolio in Next.js!

Before:

After:

Created my first npm library
Created my first React library
Learned a lot about Vercel & Next.js
Learned a lot about TypeScript
Got better at designing in Figma
Started learning Java
Explored Svelte
Explored Supabase
Explored Cassandra
Explored PlanetScale before it was generally available
Used CockroachDB for the first time
Learned a lot about databases and ORMs
Desktop tour got over a thousand views on YouTube
Redesigned my teacher's website
Participated in my first Hackathon
Created SnipBin
Created debutur
Created Oponion
Created Glassmorphicssm
Created Geethoob
Created Issure
Created Calvera
Started redesigning apps

🌟 Life Achievements

Visited family and friends back in India!
Bought a new phone
Made lots of new friends :)
Started playing video games again :p
Hit 650 followers on Instagram
Created a Linkedin
Grew somewhat of a beard

2021 was a crazy year (to say the least). I managed to make myself slightly less stupid as a person. With school becoming more taxing amongst other things, I've had less time to code and contribute to open-source. With that to say, I'd like to express my gratitude all the people who've helped me get here. Thank you!

Wishing everyone the best of luck for 2022! Cheers 🍻