2013 in Review
The year is almost over and I think I accomplished a lot this year. You can read my reviews of 2010, 2011 and 2012.
2013 Geek Achievements
- Solved 213 UVa problems.
- Got 43rd at NWERC 2013.
- Placed high in IMPA, with one turn won.
- Completed the online course Programming Languages in Coursera.
- Wrote some ML, Racket and Ruby.
- Won the TDDD56 Parallel Sorting Contest.
- Got my first summer job as a programmer at Configura. Great fun, great place to work.
- Wrote a lot of C and C++.
- Switched my site generator from Jekyll to Hakyll and wrote a little Haskell.
- For the first time achieved full marks in an exam - TDDD20 Construction and Analysis of Algorithms.
- Completed an extra math course: TATA64 Graph Theory. Fun course.
- Finished my 3 first years in University, now I can choose my own courses!
- Completed the compiler course in school and learned a bunch.
- Unlocked all ships in FTL and beat it a bunch of times. Fantastic game!
2013 Non-Geek Achievements
- Had a good year with Veronica.
- Visited Karlskrona with Veronica.
- Achieved 4-kup in Taekwon-do.
- Been a kids trainer in Taekwon-do. Very rewarding.
- Read 30 books.
- Discovered Agricola, a great German Style board game.
- Discovered Terra Mystica, another great board game.
- Did a bit of yoga.
2013 Failures
- Did not complete (or start) a hardware project.
- Did not achieve 3-kup in Taekwon-do.
- Did not participate in Ludum Dare.
- Missed two exams. I didn’t fail them, but I missed the dates…
Plans for 2014
- Take care of Veronica.
- Achieve 2-kup in Taekwon-do.
- Achieve a full split.
- Do 300 morning stretches.
- Visit the gym 100 times.
- Write a game.
- Participate in Ludum Dare.
- Code some rust.
- Read 31 books.
- Write 52 blog posts.
- Solve 100 UVa problems.
- Take more fun courses.
- Construct a custom keyboard.
- Successfully read 1 Korean speech bubble in Tower of God, without reference.
- Complete all exams.
- Prettify the site.