2015 was a pretty awesome year full of new experiences, growth and accomplishments. It marked my second year of working in software professionally and school seems like a faint memory at this point. Shopify, the company where I work, IPO’d this summer which was an exciting and [possibly] once in a lifetime experience. I think this kind of post is worth doing to reflect before simply setting our sights on the next goal. So here it is my year in review in bullet points:

Travel

• Barcelona for FullStack Fest
• Stockholm Sweden for Nordic.js
• Paris France (for just over 24 hours but we saw a lot!)
• Helsinki Finland for Junction 2015
• Costa Rica for vacation
• Peru for a vacation and to hike the Inca Trail!

Sports and Fitness

• new PR squating at 255 lbs for 1 (although now I’m injured as I write this and my squat is low :sadface:)
• ran 3k in 12:35 (mm::ss)
• made a lot of improvement in mobility (I can now touch my toes!)
• I discovered and became addicted to Yoga Tune Up which has really helped support my other fitness goals

Ultimate

• I played my first season of competitive Ultimate with Swift
• I attended 3 away tournaments with Swift in Toronto, New York and Barrie finishing our season at No Borders in Ottawa.
• We didn’t win a lot of games (we were essentially the C team) but we did beat Goose when it counted!
• I played in my first beach tournament ever!

Side Projects

• I wrote my first text editor extension RailsRunMigration
• I made a script to alert me when I spend too much time coding (the irony) coding_timer
• I created some cool infographics for the OCUA Parity League
• merch-my-tweet a bot who automatically creates products from your tweets
• I wrote a javascript library to add a CLI to my online banking
• I built my first docker image (trivial but felt cool)
• I also shipped improvements to shopify-sinatra-app and completely re-wrote shopify-app as a proper rails engine

New Tech

• React.js
• Rails engines
• npm / common js build tools
• javascript testing with jasmine
• capybara / browser testing
• middleman
• Chrome Extensions
• small task automation with AppScript