Tiny Wins

A tiny win is when you achieve something small that takes you a step in the right direction. The concept help you celebrate the journey and build up momentum as you go.

Mentioned in the blog post Tiny Wins.

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2022

January

• Setup personal site (this one you're on now 🎉)
• Survived Covid and made it to Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
• Completed Ultraworking Pentathlon XVIII
• Pushed Next.js template to GitHub
• Watched Building a Modern Full Stack App – Theo T3 Tools
• Shipped Here: usehere.co
• Read Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• Met up with Dru Riley in Lisbon
• Setup production / staging Strapi v4 environment with custom Firebase Auth + GraphQL endpoints

February

• Improved Here journal editor and exercise templating
• Completed Timeless Career Advice for Software Engineers
• House sitted a dog and two cats with Hannah in Edinburgh
• Build an iOS app and custom Next.js site to interface with Strapi using Apollo Client, URQL and GraphQL Code Generator
• Visited Poland (Krakow) for the first time 🇵🇱

March

• Arrived back in Tenerife 🇪🇸
• Finished How We Work playlist from Basecamp
• Built out Progress to help me track my day to day learnings
• Finished Stripe Payments Course
• Span out Method from Here
• Finished React-beautiful-dnd Course
• Finished Cloud Infrastructure Fundamentals with AWS
• Read Getting Real by Basecamp
• Visited Family in London 🇬🇧
• Experimented with Bedrock

April

• Visited Montengro 🇲🇪
• Finished Storybook Next.js Course
• Add clickable links and Markdown export to Method
• Finished Build an NFT Based Ticketing System
• Add Search to Method
• Finished Terraform Course
• Watched Tour of Composable Architecture
• Soft launched Five Links Friday, but still a WIP
• Experiment with PlanetScale after watching Sam Lambert Interview
• Arrived in Mexico 🌮🇲🇽🎉
• Finished watching WeCrashed 👌

May

• Watched Building a Modern Full Stack App
• Rebuilt Learnso in Blitz.js with full db, auth and user submissions
• Watched Christopher Alexander Primer
• Updated design for Method, added priority task support
• Setup Postmark and Quirrel for Progress
• Read 12 months to $1 million
• Updated and tidied up old Ghost blog deployments
• Built out full GraphQL endpoint, site and mobile app feature for freelance client
• Watched Tour of isoword, learning more about Composable Architecture
• Arrived in San Cristabol de la Casas ⛈🇲🇽☂️
• Listened to all of The Manager's Handbook Podcast

June

• Watched WWDC announcements 🍏
• Updated WWDC tracker project
• Added priority tasks to Method
• Researched CDMX
• Switched notetaking app to Reflect
• Wrote Stripe server for freelance (using Typescript + Express + Railway)
• Investigated SvelteKit
• Finished up client work
• Read Elon Musk Biography

July

• Arrived in Mexico City 🇲🇽🐕🌳🚲
• Watched Point-Free Modularization episodes 171 + 172
• Setup GraphQL Yoga + SwiftGraphQL + GRDB ready for Progress iOS app
• Read Build by Tony Fadell
• Listened to Pieter Levels interview on My First Million
• Setup Method landing page, switched to PlanetScale
• Watched Lesson 1: Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
• Watched talk What nobody tells you about documentation

August

• Arrived in Oaxaca 🇲🇽🏠🌮🍸
• Experimented with Arc browser
• Explored Refocus Your ADHD Brain
• Watched Clean iOS Architecture Playlist
• Attended iOS Dev Happy Hour
• Watched Iman Gadzhi inspirational life story
• Arrived in Antigua, Guatemala 🇬🇹🌋⛈
• Rebooted Beeminder career goal

September

• Explore Lake Atitlan, Guatemala 🇬🇹💧🚤
• Geeking out on mechananical watches ⌚️
• Started Healthy Gamer's ADHD Guide
• Visit Family back home in London 🇬🇧
• Started Shift Nudge design course
• Family holiday to Rome 🇮🇹🏛🍕
• Explored the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Pantheon and Vatican City

October

• Arrived in Paris 🇫🇷🗼🥐
• Applied modularisation techniques to freelance project
• Yes Theory's Project Iceman Premiere
• Trip back to Manchester 🇬🇧 to visit University friends
• Diving into Obsidian.md