working the same job for the entirety of the year
Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#62My plugin for Visual Studio Code is nearing 1000 followers and 200k downloads: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim (Last year it was nearly nonexistent.)
I learned a lot about managing an open source project, but probably the biggest thing was that I learned that even something as uncontentious as a Vim plugin can get a ton of hate online, including from Hacker News. I would hate to be working on a more contentious and visible project.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#63I climbed Kilimanjaro and got selected to JavaOne as speaker!
The climbing experience was richer than I thought:
- Full trust and obey my guide, Alex is a great guide.
- Planning and equipment are the key for success.
JavaOne experience:
- Presentation skills
- Great network of contacts
- Tons of knowledge
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#64Quitting cigarettes. Exactly 1 year ago, I decided to quit. Best decision I've ever made.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#65I wrote a Bitbucket add-on that puts a rebase button and a squash button on the pull-request screen. At this time it only works for the on-premises version of Bitbucket, aka Stash aka "Bitbucket Server".
Here's a screenshot of the Squash button in action: http://bit-booster.com/bb/squash.png
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#66Recognizing the exorbitant amount of self-doubt and limiting beliefs going on in the background of my brain.
Now changing them is a whole 'nother story and I still am looking for answers on that.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#67I accepted a job at Rothenberg Ventures in 2016. After discovering numerous breaches of fiduciary duties and wire fraud, I blew the whistle to the SEC.
Lesson learned: Even engineers have to face ethical dilemmas.
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#68I built Webpack:
https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T02U0A0AE-F3K6MSVEW/burst_...
https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T02U0A0AE-F3K4N0W3V/burst_...
(not to be confused with build tool with similar spelling)
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
For what it's worth, I'm very glad you're alive and thinking about this stuff friend :) I heavily relate to that overwhelming feeling stemming from meta-emotions.
Awww. When are you coming back to NYC, Kasra? Also: your profile text is hilariously out of date.
I think sometime in February, I'll definitely message you before I do :) I'll see about updating that hah
Re: Ask HN: What was your greatest accomplishment in 2016?
#70Sold an app, wrote an e-book, 15 poems, a blogpost featured on HackerNews frontpage and took a 40 year old lady on a dinner date.