My 2018 Year in Review
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Published: 2018-12-29 05:17:20

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So here’s my 2018 Resolutions.{% link https://dev.to/nickytonline/2018-resolutions-1deo %}Did I complete them all? No, but honestly it’s not a big deal.

- _Continue to contribute to open source_: Mission accomplished 🚀. I continued to be a collaborator on [react-slingshot](https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot) and contributed some work there this year, fielded some issues etc.

{%github https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot %}

My other focus was the dev.to repository.

{%github https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to %}

I was accepted as an early contributor before the [project went open source](https://dev.to/ben/devto-is-now-open-source-5n1) and continued to contribute after it went public. It felt really good to be the [first contributor outside of the core team](https://dev.to/jess/dev-monthly-report--march-2018-579p) to have a PR merged.</p>

{%link https://dev.to/jess/dev-monthly-report--march-2018-579p %}
Although I didn’t contribute to TypeScript or VS Code, I’m still very happy with this year’s contributions.

- _Keep on blogging_: I continued to blog with a few blog posts and lots more short posts/comments on dev.to. People seemed to like “My Mac Setup” which was one of the most popular posts for mid-January on dev.to.{%link https://dev.to/nickytonline/my-mac-setup-2m05 %}{% link https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/the-7-most-popular-dev-posts-from-the-past-week-4pno %}
Work and life got busy so not as much blogging as I’d had hoped.

- _Start making stuff on [codepen.io](https://codepen.io)_: Prior to 2018, I had never made any. I made a few to have a bit of fun, but I didn’t maintain this.
{%link https://dev.to/nickytonline/quick-hulk-code-pen-18i1 %}
{%link https://dev.to/nickytonline/quick-simple-rating-code-pen-3ecp %}
{%link https://dev.to/nickytonline/probably-another-battleship-board-on-codepenio-coverimage-httpsc1staticflickrcom7609963333175677fc467e409ojpg--4n7m %}
{%link https://dev.to/nickytonline/a--notification-code-pen-4o0n %}
{% codepen https://codepen.io/nickytonline/pen/ppMmyZ %}

- _Read everything in my Pocket_: This just didn’t happen. In fact shortly after writing my 2018 resolutions, I stopped reading Pocket completely. It had nothing to do with the product, just got busy and when you add to Pocket, it’s like it’s just sent up in the ether.{% twitter 1078703891364134912 %}
Having said that, I highly recommend this tool for offline reading. I’m gonna try and catch up on some reading while I head away to a chalet for a few days.

- _Read [Functional-Light JavaScript](https://leanpub.com/fljs)_: I got through about a third of it, and well, no excuses 🙃. Will have to finish this this year I guess 😉

It’s fun making resolutions, but honestly, I did not lose any sleep over not completing some of these. Aside from resolutions, it was a busy year in work land and in the fall I decided to move on to an amazing role at Autodesk on the [Shotgun team](https://www.shotgunsoftware.com).

{% twitter 1078453470041120769 %}

Prior to starting work, I attended a week long conference with the whole team. We’re distributed, so they try to have these team conferences once or every two years. As a brand new employee who hadn’t even started work yet, it was amazing to meet, wine/dine with my future co-workers and work on ways to improve the product. I’ve been loving it since day 1. Great work/life balance and all the good things you look for in a job. 💯

Aside from the new gig, I'm about to pass 12000 followers on dev.to! 🔥

So as we close off 2018, I just want to say thanks to the dev.to core team and the community. You're all great.

![That's all folks!](https://media.giphy.com/media/upg0i1m4DLe5q/giphy.gif)

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