2020!! Well let’s forget about that year - 2021 is on the way!
It’ll be a better year, and I wish you all the best of it.
As a closing 2020 post, I thought I’d recap on my own year and share it with you guys.
Here we go….
My year in summary:
Contracted (Go Engineer) for some great companies, building important things on AWS and GCP. I love contracting, you meet so many incredible people, and the remit is always different.
Kicked off GolangAtSpeed, a training business, but I want to run sessions in person - so it’s not taken off. Who knew :D
Met some fabulous people on Twitter, if that’s you thank you for the engagement. It’s give and take! Twitter gets a bad rap but we can connect as decent humans, when otherwise we’d never meet - how cool is that?!
Set up this substack, made decent progress writing weekly tutorials - and hopefully added some value to the Go community
Started a new company, more on that later, but it’ll be Go end-to-end.
Dabbled with Vlang. A language which is so similar to Go, but with some edges smoothed (memory management, small binaries, generics to name a few). I really recommend you check it out if you’re enjoying Golang. It’s just hit version 1.0
Bought a load of books, because I wanted to know more about Frontend and be more “full-stack”. Didn’t get very far in all honesty :0
At a personal/human level things have been tough. It’s been much harder to execute on anything. I see this repeated a lot by other people. Do you feel like this?
I have youngish children and I think some anxiety about what the future holds - not for me, but for them - it’s been tough in a way I wouldn’t have anticipated, but I guess none of us has been here before :/
If you want to engage below and share your 2020 triumphs and/or disappointments please feel free to do just that. It’s good to unload I think. I’ll read all comments and maybe we can have a natter.
But for now, I wish you a Happy New Year and a superb 2021. Thank you so much for subscribing to my substack newsletter, I’m going to crank it up again in 2021, but for now, keep on Going.
Happy 2021!
Happy 2021!
Happy 2021!
2020!! Well let’s forget about that year - 2021 is on the way!
It’ll be a better year, and I wish you all the best of it.
As a closing 2020 post, I thought I’d recap on my own year and share it with you guys.
Here we go….
My year in summary:
Contracted (Go Engineer) for some great companies, building important things on AWS and GCP. I love contracting, you meet so many incredible people, and the remit is always different.
Kicked off GolangAtSpeed, a training business, but I want to run sessions in person - so it’s not taken off. Who knew :D
Met some fabulous people on Twitter, if that’s you thank you for the engagement. It’s give and take! Twitter gets a bad rap but we can connect as decent humans, when otherwise we’d never meet - how cool is that?!
Set up this substack, made decent progress writing weekly tutorials - and hopefully added some value to the Go community
Started a new company, more on that later, but it’ll be Go end-to-end.
Dabbled with Vlang. A language which is so similar to Go, but with some edges smoothed (memory management, small binaries, generics to name a few). I really recommend you check it out if you’re enjoying Golang. It’s just hit version 1.0
Bought a load of books, because I wanted to know more about Frontend and be more “full-stack”. Didn’t get very far in all honesty :0
At a personal/human level things have been tough. It’s been much harder to execute on anything. I see this repeated a lot by other people. Do you feel like this?
I have youngish children and I think some anxiety about what the future holds - not for me, but for them - it’s been tough in a way I wouldn’t have anticipated, but I guess none of us has been here before :/
If you want to engage below and share your 2020 triumphs and/or disappointments please feel free to do just that. It’s good to unload I think. I’ll read all comments and maybe we can have a natter.
But for now, I wish you a Happy New Year and a superb 2021. Thank you so much for subscribing to my substack newsletter, I’m going to crank it up again in 2021, but for now, keep on Going.
See, I’ve done it again. Go. Go-ing. Going…
#golang
Best wishes,
Ollie