2012 in Review
Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel like I didn’t accomplish much, but after the yearly summary it always feels better.
2012 Geek Achievements
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Designed a processor which fulfills the Core Wars 88 standard. Includes a redcode assembler.
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Went through pintos in school and learned a lot about operating systems.
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Began a new website.
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Wrote some Ruby in conjunction with Jekyll.
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Learned some Rust and wrote a small irc bot with it.
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Took an advanced mathematics course in Linear Algebra, it was fun!
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I was a mathematics mentor to the first years in Discrete Math.
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Won the “best CV” award from Ericsson during Linkdagarna.
Here’s the CV (in Swedish) and here’s the latex file that produced it.
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Got top 3 in IMPA, I did participate three turns out of five.
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Participated in prog-SM and won a t-shirt! (Or three…)
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Solved a lot of problems on UVa.
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Wrote a lot of C.
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Wrote some C++.
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Wrote some Perl.
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Made a robot.
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Read one programming book - The C Programming Language.
2012 Non-Geek Achievements
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Me and Veronica had a good year.
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Achieved 5-kup in Taekwon-do.
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Read a lot of manga. Battle Royale was the highlight of the year I think.
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Read some manwha. Possibly better than manga??
- Tower of God (my favourite manga/manwha atm)
- Magician
- The Breaker New Waves
- Noblesse
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Discovered Power Grid, a German Style Boardgame.
2012 Failures
- Did not write enough code.
- Did not participate in Ludum Dare.
- Did not write a new game.
- I have a mechanic course behind me…
Plans for 2013
- Take care of Veronica.
- Complete a hardware project
- Try out some yoga.
- Learn about compilers.
- Take some fun courses.
- Achieve kup 3 in Taekwon-do.
- Develop this site a bit.
- Bigger and better blog posts.
- Work hard(er?) in school.
- Code more.
- Read more books.
- Fix the Failures of 2012.