Tiny Wins 2024

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

Mentioned in the blog post Tiny Wins.

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2024

January

• Started the year off sick 😷
• Work on new Learnso site
• Arrived in Bansko, Bulgaria 🇧🇬🗻🏂
• Finish reading The Art of Focus
• First time snowboarding ❄️
• Play with Appwrite for iOS
• Play with OpenAI Assistants API and function calling 🤖
• Sort taxes 💸

February

• Finish Drizzle course, add to web stack
• Revisit Obsidian for notetaking 🪨
• Setup admin dashboard for freelance client
• Start Viral YouTuber Mastermind
• Work on YouTube script writing project 📝
• Migrate old Ghost blog to Railway.app

March

• Prompt Engineering for LLMs course 🤖
• Powder days and first off piste run through the trees ❄️🏔️🌲
• Switched to Bataleon Evil Twin 22-23 board 🏂🤙
• Migrate smaller projects from PlanetScale to Railway.app
• Revamp AI Experiments with credit system and journalist AI
• Retro day on the slopes 🪩🕺🏂
• Work on AR project 📱

April

• Arrive in Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷🐈⛴️
• Explore the Grand Bazaar 📍, Spice Market 🫚, Basilica Cistern 💧 and Blue Mosque 🕌 and took a ferry to Asia 🌏
• Reboot Beeminder Reading Goal
• Build an Arc tab count menubar app
• Build a sleep debt menubar app and email reporting 😴
• Sonar Istanbul 2024 🎧 (Hyenah, Joy Orbison, Overmono, 2manydjs)

May

• Started running again 🏃🏻‍♂️ (7km + 5km)
• Built of demo of 2 min app for A.M.
• Joined a Photo walk in Istanbul 📷
• 📱 Attended NSLondon iOS Meetup
• Complete my Motorbike CBT course 🏍️

June

• ✈️ Took my discovery flight lesson
• Explored Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and Malmö 🇸🇪
• Watched WWDC Keynote in Copenhagen at Shape
• Updated my WWDC Tracker
• Cycled all over Copenhagen 🚲
• Added an iPad Pro to my setup 💸
• 🏙️☕️🛍️ Last minute London trip with my mum
• Arrived in Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭🍜🛵
• 📚 Started experimenting with Readwise again

July

• Watched the PyTorch Documentry ✨
• 🎨🖌️ Completed Beginners Procreate Series
• Arrived in Koh Phangan, Thailand 🇹🇭⛴️🏝️
• 🚀 Launched Ask WWDC (Tweet)
• Ran an AI meetup and dinner
• Met Captain, Good Boi 🐕
• Gym, Sauna and Ice Bath at Xantiva 💪🥵🥶
• Motorbike crash 💥
• Ask WWDC feature on Daring Fireball

August

• Ask WWDC featured in iOS Dev Weekly
• Read Senior Mindset
• Add progress bar to 52 books article
• Arrived back in Bangkok 🇹🇭🍜🛵
• 🇮🇩🌴🏝️ Arrived in Bali, Indonesia
• Caught up with Ellie and Anna in Ubud 🙈
• Listen to Pieter Levels x Lex Friedman
• Revisit Learnso
• Create a drizzle-graphql template
• Back at Hackagu
• 🗺️📍 Finished reading Jupiter Travels

September

• 🌅🏖️🏍️ Rode my motorbike along the beach
• Futureland fitness challenge 💪 (managed 16 hours)
• Finish Steal like an Artist
• Get asksite.co landing page online
• Start on asksite.co admin panel

October

• 🎻🎵 Help Simon port kingsfolk.co.uk over to Ghost
• Setup multi-tenant / domains for asksite.co
• 🗺️📍️🏍 Motorbike trip clockwise round Bali
  • Canggu, Medewi, Banjuwedang, Lovina, Amed, Sanur, Uluwatu
• 🇲🇾 Trip to KL, Malaysia
• Got an Apple Watch series 10 ⌚
• 💪🏋️ Fell in love with Power + Revive
• 🧪 Completed Typescript Testing Course
• Secret Telegram bot project 🤖

November

• 🥳 Celebrated Hannah's 30th Birthday
• 🧩 Bali Gumroad Event (met Sahil and team 👋)
• 🗿🏝️🏊‍♂️ Uluwatu (Exploring, The Istana and Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue)
• Push update to Peek for Black Friday 👁️
• Watch Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

December

• 🥊 Boxing at P+R
• 📺 Add YouTube Import to asksite.co
• 💻 Freelance work for a startup...
• 🎄 Christmas in London 🎄