I finally started writing my book, "Take Control of Your Career". Put up a landing page to give away a free chapter on writing awesome business email to start gauging interest.
Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
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Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#12Launched[1] first product of our startup[2] on 30th. Working on to get it going.
[1]: http://blog.dsdinfosec.com/a-great-day-for-dsdinfosec-launch...
[2]: http://dsdinfosec.com
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#13Bought a round-trip ticket to Asia which will kick off a trip spanning over 5 months. Longest trip I've ever taken, and I'm staying in Korea for 3 months, hopefully hacking a lot and working on freelance work and sideprojects when I'm not exploring and getting to know the locals! I know it's not really "achieved", but I've been building up to it for a while :)
P.S. Hit me up if you're in Seoul in July-October!
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#14I started writing a chess game where rather than just two players there are two teams of an arbitrary number of players each who vote on what move to play next. Pitting yourself against a crowd of 100 other players should prove entertaining.
Fun tech too.. using chess.js (https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md), chessboard.js (chessboardjs.com) and Firebase.com at the moment.
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#151. Nearly completed V1 of Cachet (https://cachethq.io) - unfortunately personal issues arose plus being a bit burnt out meant I was unable to quite reach my deadline. But we're nearing it.
2. Started working on Larameet UK (https://james-brooks.uk/larameet-uk/) which will be a mini-conference/meetup for Laravel and PHP developers alike.
3. Moved back in with my parents so that more of my savings can go towards a house.
4. I reached sixteen weeks of not drinking energy drinks; Monster, Redbull, Lucozade etc and reduced my daily coffee intake to two cups max. I'd rather drink tea and water now. I don't smoke nor do I have a particularly addictive personality, but stopping myself drinking these energy drinks has been really hard and continues to be when I'm near them.
5. Finally (after five years) setup a deployment system for our consumer websites at work. This makes a massive difference and is a step in the direction I want to be doing.
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#16Got to write some F# professionally.
Wrote up an article about getting F# adopted in the work place. It got ~1k views https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-to-get-pragmatists-to-...
Wrote up a very domain specific article on scheduling. It got 8 views https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/dont-use-the-word-reschedu...
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#17I participated in the Global Game Jam where I met a bunch of awesome folks, managing to win "Best game made by a group of strangers" at our location! Followed that up with continued development on said game, with the goal of not breaking my personal GitHub contribution streak.
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#18I've stayed well on top of my consulting projects, already done preparing my taxes even!
I made significant progress on my sideproject (implemented native mac, linux, and windows clients in addition to the backend!). Shameless plug: It's a filesystem-based time tracker (think dropbox filesystem monitoring + Machine Learning to automatically classify projects = no-hassle, fully automated time tracking) http://moonlighter.io
Personally, we paid off the balances on my wife's car and student loans. Now to continue tackling my own student loans. (Can't wait to only have the mortgage payment...)
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#19Lots of green boxes in my GitHub contributions/activity table (compared to the entire last year). But honestly, most of those activity is on my own projects, I would like to contribute more to other open source projects :)
Re: Ask HN: What have you achieved in January 2015?
#20I've stayed well on top of my consulting projects, already done preparing my taxes even! I made significant progress on my sideproject (implemented native mac, linux, and windows clients in addition to the backend!). Shameless plug: It's a filesystem-based time tracker (think dropbox filesystem monitoring + Machine Learning to automatically classify projects = no-hassle, fully automated time tracking) http://moonligh…
Nice. The taxes are always the hardest to get over with. Way to tackle it and make serious project on moonlighter. Looks interesting. I just signed up for the beta.