2019 in Review
Accomplishments:
- went out West for LinuxFest Northwest
- met my lovely girlfriend
- promoted at my job
- established morning & evening routines
- updated this site with detailed About page
- developed an ECS deployment pipeline
- donated to No Agenda
- applied Stoicism and minimalism to my life all year
- understood the importance of digital privacy
- won my fantasy football league
Thoughts on 30 Day Challenges:
I developed habits, but overall it was too much. Going to stick with general goals for 2020.
Goals for 2020
I have broken up my goals into three categories: Personal, Work, and Career. Personal is self-explanatory. Work is directly related to my day-job. And, career is meant for exploration of new skills and continuing to improve other skills that will help out my overall career.
Personal:
- keep with exercise plan
- 3 days in week, count calories
- Stay on budget
- number spent not over at end-of-year
- Personal blog posts
- 5 for minimalops.com
- 5 for metalmonkeys.blog
- 3 for craignuzzo.tech
- Get off Google
- Record my self singing
Work:
- earn the AWS Architect Associate certification
- give back to a FLOSS project
- learn CI/CD best practices
- contribute to our DI Dashboard moreso
- replace old work Mac
Career:
- continue SRE/SysAdmin/DevOps learning
- be very comfortable with Python
- be proficient in Terraform, CloudFormation and IaaC in general
Looking ahead…
2021 Goals
- logging
- bug bounty
- apply for other gigs to stay fresh