2015 in Review ⚓

15 Feb 2016

2015 was a good year for me. I accomplished a lot of things, and was happy for most part of the year. In no particular order, here are the things that stand out for me:

• Went to HillHacks, and made lots of friends. Helped organize the conference.
• Joined Razorpay in June
• Moved to Bangalore
• Announced my book, The Joy of Software Development
• Did lots of speaker things:
  • Joy of Software Development talk at IIT Roorkee
  • Flash Talks on SDSLabs, CTFs and a few more things at HillHacks
  • A full-length talk on the book itself at HillHacks
  • Did the HillHacks and HackBeach quizes
  • Announced my Homeopathy Bug Bounty Program at hackbeach.
  • Gave a talk on Fun with HTTP at Barcamp Bangalore.
• Learnt some slacklining at hackbeach. Helped with conference scheduling as well.
• Made lots of new friends at Bangalore.
• Started playing board games, including being a DM at several Dungeons and Dragons sessions.
• Started quizzing in bangalore as well. Mostly at Cluesday, Vapors.

Reading

I started with a goal of 20 books for this year, and ended up reading about 28. Tried experimenting with Audiobooks near the year end, and failed. Bought a Kindle paperwhite as well. I tend to read a lot of Fantasy and SF, and this continued in 2015 as well. The best books I read this year (in order):

• Lions of Al Rassan [review]
• The Goblin Emperor [review]
• The Martian [review]

A complete list is on Goodreads

Tech

• Launched hackercouch as a personal project.
• Shifted to Arch Linux + i3wm setup for my laptop. See Setup page for more details.
• Left facebook, mostly because of their stance on Net Neutrality and the FreeBasics debacle in India.

Published on February 15, 2016