This seems like a good time to reflect and take stock.
One year ago, I was building internal tools at Yahoo! and starting to toy around with Django on the side. I was working on Yourmuni, which was later presented at the January 2009 Django SF Meetup. I was about to start working on a sizable side project (having met the founder at said meetup).
Today, I’m working at Flickr, inching ever so close to a launch of the aforementioned side project, working on an iPhone app, and toying around with all sorts of exciting stuff. Things feel very different. This is the first time that I actually CAN believe that a year had passed, because a lot of things have happened. I changed jobs, learning a ton and growing a whole lot as an engineer in the process; I took down Flickr, all by my self; I finally visited France after having been the only French major in my class not to have done so; we moved – it was the first time I painted a place; I got my US citizenship; my brother got married; I met a whole ton of awesome people, though I feel like I’ve fallen out of touch with more; I got my first real DSLR camera (thanks, Alexa!) I submitted minor patches to a couple open-source projects, gave some small presentations, and submitted my first proposal for a talk at a conference – fingers crossed!
I feel good about 2010, and hope that it will be even more eventful and crazy.
Happy new year, everyone!
