Personal highlights #

• 🏡 Moved to London!
• Spent lots of quality time with Rocco 🐶 and Oli 👶🏻
• Traveled to Amsterdam 🇳🇱, Oslo 🇳🇴, and Catania 🇮🇹
• Learned I am more likely than not neurodivergent?
• Cured my bad back and shoulder!
• Settled into a cool co-working space Work.life and made some new mates
• Started feeling more sure about my values and principles
• Saw to 4 West End musicals: The Snowman, Newsies, Heathers, Come From Away
• Ate at some cool London restaurants: German Gymnasium, Popolo, Campania & Jones, Mildreds, La Mia Mamma, Hawksmoor, Kerridge's Bar & Grill, Brasserie Zédel, Timmy Green, Brunswick East, Duck & Waffle, Old Compton Brasserie
• Enjoyed lots of delicious coffee: Ozone, Origin, Allpress
• Found 3 podcasts I look forward to every week: All-In Podcast, Off Menu, Kill Tony
• Went to 2 music shows: The Script (I didn't seek this one out 🙃), Community Fest
• 4,275 new Twitter followers 👏🏻

Work highlights #

• Got promoted to Content Lead and started growing into the role 🚀
• Launched the Scrimba blog and oversaw 62 new posts (26,381 sessions, 47.7% from organic)
• 52 episodes of the Scrimba Podcast (126,179 downloads)
• 17 videos on the Scrimba YouTube (334,629 views and 5,759 new subscribers)
• Hosted 52 Scrimba Town Hall events
• 15,053 new @Scrimba followers
• Appeared on a few podcasts: HTML All The Things, The Developer's Cafe, The Coder Career Podcast, The Bug Hunter's Cafe

Favourite productivity apps #

• Strong Workout log book
• Drafts Markdown-based notes app that syncs accross devices
• Loom Record your screen and camera then share with a quick link
• Raycast Alfred, but better
• Cleanshot X Better than the built-in screenshot tool

Other stuff I liked this year #

• 33 1/3 Series Short books about albums
• Ceramic Steel Sharpening Rod Keeps your knife sharper for longer
• WHOOSH! Screen Cleaner Kit I was dubious I needed a special product to clean my phone and laptop but this kit freshens up and renews my phone
• Upright Health Anterior Pelvic Tilt Fix Program
• Birkenstock Bostons If you told me even a year ago my favourite shoe was a pair of clogs, I never would have believed you but these things rock!
• Seiko SPB143 Just an incredibly versatile and wearable watch that I love
• Kagi search engine A premium user-centric search engine with better results than Google
• Unsplash Instant Beautiful photos from Unsplash in new tab

Albums I listened to a bunch #

• The Suburbs, Arcade Fire (2010)
• Is This It, The Strokes (2001)
• Actual Life 3, Fred Again (2022)

Favourite movies #

• The Gladiator (2000)
• Bullet Train (2022) 🎥
• Glass Onion (2022) 🎥
• A few Good men (1992)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Casino Royale (2006)

🎥 Watched in cinema

Favourite series #

• Stranger Things (2016-)
• Dexter New Blood (2021-2022)
• Malcom in the Middle (2000-2006)
• Brooklyn 99 (2013-2021)
• Better Call Saul (2015-2022)

Favourite books #

• Crucial Conversations
• The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane