Tiny Wins 2022
Last Updated: 10th January 2023
6 min read
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.
Back to wins from this year
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
November
- Completed Getting Started with Obsidian
- Completed Getting Started with Zettelkasten
- Day trip via Lyon, France
- Arrived in Briancon, staying at Cloud Citadel ☁️❄️🚠🏰
- Launched freelance client app in the App Store
- Dabbled with Midjourney and ChatGPT
- Built a passwordless login system (secret project 🤫)
- Experimented with OpenLoops (link collecting tool)
- Joined Daniel Vassallo's Portfolio of Small Bets community
December
- Arrived on the island of Texel, Netherlands 🇳🇱⛴🐏
- Joined Buildspace Nights & Weekends S2
- Weekend in Amsterdam 🇳🇱🌳🚣♂️
- Back home visiting family in London
- Parkrun on Christmas Day 🏃🏻♂️
- Worked on initial site for Swiftly
- Headed to Tenerife for New Years