Review of year 2020

2020 didn't quite go according to plan, but without twist and turn life would be boring. In 2020 I achieved some unplanned things.

Things Achieved in 2020

1. Dinvishesh - First Quarter
   I wrote my first npm package. A simple npm package which gives dinvishesh (On this day in history). It specifically for the Marathi language. It does not gain success but gives the confidence to write another npm package.

2. Svelte-pdf - Second Quarter
   In Nearlaw we were creating offline software which supports all operating system with a single codebase, so we decided to go with electron and svelte, but later we realized there is no package or extension which show pdf in svelte. Initially, I wrote for the Nearlaw offline product and later on released it as an npm package with an MIT licence. Now it has 30+ Github star and 1.8K+ download.

3. Vim - Third Quarter
   As I told above we creating an offline product in which we were using elastic search which consumes lots of ram at the initial startup. ElasticSearch, Postman(ElectronBuild), Vscode(ElectronBuild), Our offline Product(ElectronBuild), Google Chrome etc. takes so much ram, sometimes my system hags frequently. I switched postman to insomnia for rest API testing and VS-Code Editor to Vim. Vim is all about efficiency, and there are lots of angles for which I'll write another blog.

4. Tiling Window Manager - Fourth Quarter
   I started with spectrwm but my system not supporting it very well so I switched to Awesome window manager but stuck somewhere for configuration doesn't give me enough credibility to do justice in my thought. I want something which language I know so I stumble upon Qtile Window Manager which is written in python. Still, I'm a gnome user but frequently switching between qtile and gnome. One day I'll completely switch One of the tiling window managers for full time.

5. Express Api starter
   Initially I was using express-generator (still using), but ended-up doing same thing again and again 'user JWT authentication with refresh token and suscription plan' so i decided to create git repository. A starter for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, Mongoose and more. just check-out here

6. BotMarathi
   Started twitter bot in July 2018, A Marathi Twitter bot written in python that automates several actions such as retweet tweet bases on hashtags, post frequently latest news in less than 160 words, a quote, some events that took place on this day in past etc. now gained ~3.1k+ real followers.

Next Year Plan

We'll see what 2021 brings, but still wanted to achieve something like below,

1. Get a Job and relocate.
2. Write a Regular blog.
3. Study more on Graphql and serverless.
4. Create more open-source projects and contribute to the them.

Thanks for reading.