🎊 2020 in Review
This will hopefully get fleshed out as an article at some point, but I thought I'd get it out before the year ends.
January:
- Continued working on @Sitesauce
- RE'd @byte_app's API
- Got in a relationship (still going!)
February:
- Designed a neomorphic UI for @Sitesauce as a prototype (twitter.com/m1guelpf/status/1229559537289637890)
- Continued working on @Sitesauce
March:
- Turned 18
- Pandemic hit, we were on national lockdown (aka without leaving the house) for almost three months
- Final exams canceled, more time to code
- Got tired of never shipping @Sitesauce, started preparing for launch, launch still took an entire month (spoilers)
April:
- Reached 1K deployments on @Sitesauce
- Finished preparing @Sitesauce launch and scheduled it for the 1st of May
May:
- Sitesauce launch! It went awesome (miguelpiedrafita.com/launching-sitesauce)
- 2K deployments on @Sitesauce
- Redesigned my website
- First microl.ink prototype
May (cont):
- Did "Building X in one day" threads: Built an AMP book reader (miguelpiedrafita.com/amp-book), a referral system for @Sitesauce (miguelpiedrafita.com/laravel-affiliate), VAT handling for @Sitesauce (miguelpiedrafita.com/laravel-cashier-vat), a Chrome extension for Things (miguelpiedrafita.com/things-extension), etc.
June:
- New avatar (had the MP logo for four years now, about time)
- Launched the @Sitesauce affiliate program
- Got VSCode's rendering engine working on my website for code blocks
- Got into 3D design & started learning @Blender
- Announced & started working on @goauralite
July:
- Continued working on @goauralite
- Got into GameDev, started learning @unity3d
August:
- Challenged myself to build an app live in 24hrs (and did it)
- Continued learning GameDev
- Decided to pause @goauralite development
September:
- Moved to the UK & started university (Philosophy), apparently moving into a campus in the middle of a pandemic wasn't the best idea
- Built & soft-launched microl.ink in two days
- Burnout & depression
October:
- Built & launched GumHub (gumhub.m1guelpf.me)
- Built a tool to curate your Twitter feed (twitter.com/m1guelpf/status/1319217827610529793)
- Built a tool to generate good PDFs from websites (twitter.com/m1guelpf/status/1316519407905058817)
October (cont):
- Moar Depression (pandemic + remote relationships are hard)
- Joined @genzmafia
- Attended multiple @genzmafia firesides and met cool people, which was awesome
November:
- Started freelancing on the side (working on a really cool app that will hopefully launch soon)
- Started learning Machine Learning
- Explored WebGL and coding shaders
- Depression again, same reasons
- Attended more @genzmafia firesides
- RE'd WhatsApp's APIs
December:
- Continued working on the freelancing app
- Built & launched @Sitesauce for GitHub
- Started doing livestreams (more to come in 2021)
- Moved back to Spain, which helped a lot with the depression
December (cont):
- Rebuilt & redesigned the entire @Sitesauce frontend (went live today, check it out)
- Designed cover art for the @genzmafia podcast
What now?
- I want to go big on livestreaming on 2021, stream consistently and build an audience on Twitch (twitch.tv/m1guelpf)
- I want to continue sharing everything I work on in here, and make this account worth a follow (go follow -> @m1guelpf)
What now? (cont)
I have to figure out what's next for me.
Should I get a job at a cool company?
Should I focus more time on freelancing?
Should I start a new project?
What about uni?
We'll see what the future brings.
Happy new year! 🎉