My 2022 in review
Tags: programming, career, writing, devjournal
Published: 2022-12-26 14:18:34

The year 2022 was and is a year that stood out for me as a programmer and a student. In this article, I hope to go through some of my accomplishments, what I learned and some of my next year's goals. Hopefully, you would get a thing or two out of this, so shall we?

## <u>🔰 The beginning:</u>

This year started out busy. I had just learned the art of writing and was getting the hang of it. Remix had just released v1 a few days before and I **loved** it 😍. Due to its simplicity and reliance on the core fundamentals, it was a framework that had come to stay.

I also made the resolution to write one article a week from the start of this year, and surprisingly, I always did that. Always. Until I didn't.

## <u>🏫 Sch...what?!:</u>

That's right, I went back to school. That was in March, and writing wasn't something I could keep up with. 

A bit about my schooling, it was a Software Engineering program at [Semicolon](https://semicolon.africa/). It's a one-year accelerated program and was swell! I joined in March and my weeks just flew by in a blur. It was busy but worth it in my journey. 

I learned a lot during my months there, programming languages, methodologies and much more. Plus the great colleagues I met.

## <u>The end?:</u>

During this year, I was privileged to work at two different companies. The first was a three months contract I did with a non-Nigerian startup. It was a stepping stone for me as a Software Engineer. I learned quite a lot during those three months too. I joined [NaeroSpace](https://twitter.com/flynaerospace) in August and have been with them since. It was a wild ride cause I joined when it was an early startup and have been with them till it wasn't. 

I'm approaching the end of my course and yes, I am less busy. I hope to pick up the slack and resume my writing. I have one major open-sourced project that I paused maintenance on ([remix-pwa](https://github.com/ShafSpecs/remix-pwa)), I would be continuing my active maintenance of the package.

## <u>🏁 Highlights & Goals:</u>

I have had a year to learn, fail and try again with Remix 💿. I also learned interesting facts and know-how whilst learning at Semicolon, I would be writing on all these things collectively from next year. I aim to be more diversified and impactful in my writing next year.

Talking about impact, I love my current job and what we do. In summary, we provide solutions to Africa's problems with aerospace technologies. Over my years writing code, I have crossed paths with engineers at multiple points in their careers and picked up a thing or two from discussions on careers and impact. I would be writing more on careers, career tips and using the skill of programming to make an impact. Stay tuned!

I love to read about diverse topics. A lot. I definitely would write more on these next year from what I learned from these books. It should be a blast!

I have been using the Test Driven Development (TDD) approach in a lot of projects I write in other languages. For some reason, I never got the hang of JavaScript testing tools (*except Cypress*). I am hoping to pick these technologies up and build more projects with them.

Finally, I hope to be building more side projects. I have some SaaS in mind for next year (thank you @tigerabrodi) and would announce it if I ever advance on this idea. I build more side-projects, learn more, share them with you dear readers and iterate.

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That's it for now, folks! Hopefully, we would engage more often over the coming weeks to exchange ideas and hold discussions. I would hopefully get back to Twitter despite recent events. It was nice to write again and I would definitely be doing it again. Till next time!