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[#]: author: (Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/)
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2018: Year in review
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I wrote these in [2015][1] and [2016][2] and [2017][3] and it’s always interesting to look back at them, so here’s a summary of what went on in my side projects in 2018.
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### ruby profiler!
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At the beginning of this year I wrote [rbspy][4] (docs: <https://rbspy.github.io/>). It inspired a Python version called [py-spy][5] and a PHP profiler called [phpspy][6], both of which are excellent. I think py-spy in particular is [probably _better_][7] than rbspy which makes me really happy.
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Writing a program that does something innovative (`top` for your Ruby program’s functions!) and inspiring other people to make amazing new tools is something I’m really proud of.
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### started a side business!
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A very surprising thing that happened in 2018 is that I started a business! This is the website: <https://wizardzines.com/>, and I sell programming zines.
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It’s been astonishingly successful (it definitely made me enough money that I could have lived on just the revenue from the business this year), and I’m really grateful to everyone’s who’s supported that work. I hope the zines have helped you. I always thought that it was impossible to make anywhere near as much money teaching people useful things as I can as a software developer, and now I think that’s not true. I don’t think that I’d _want_ to make that switch (I like working as a programmer!), but now I actually think that if I was serious about it and was interested in working on my business skills, I could probably make it work.
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I don’t really know what’s next, but I plan to write at least one zine next year. I learned a few things about business this year, mainly from:
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* [stephanie hurlburt’s twitter][8]
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* [amy hoy][9]
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* the book [growing a business by paul hawken][10]
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* seeing what joel hooks is doing with [egghead.io][11]
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* a little from [indie hackers][12]
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I used to think that sales / marketing had to be gross, but reading some of these business books made me think that it’s actually possible to run a business by being honest & just building good things.
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### work!
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this is mostly about side projects, but a few things about work:
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* I still have the same manager ([jay][13]). He’s been really great to work with. The [help! i have a manager!][14] zine is secretly largely things I learned from working with him.
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* my team made some big networking infrastructure changes and it went pretty well. I learned a lot about proxies/TLS and a little bit about C++.
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* I mentored another intern, and the intern I mentored last year joined us full time!
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When I go back to work I’m going to switch to working on something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (writing code that sends messages to banks!) for 3 months. It’s a lot closer to the company’s core business, and I think it’ll be neat to learn more about how financial infastracture works.
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I struggled a bit with understanding/defining my job this year. I wrote [What’s a senior engineer’s job?][15] about that, but I have not yet reached enlightenment.
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### talks!
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I gave 4 talks in 2018:
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* [So you want to be a wizard][16] at StarCon
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* [Building a Ruby profiler][17] at the Recurse Center’s localhost series
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* [Build Impossible Programs][18] in May at Deconstruct.
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* [High Reliability Infrastructure Migrations][19] at Kubecon. I’m pretty happy about this talk because I’ve wanted to give a good talk about what I do at work for a long time and I think I finally succeeded. Previously when I gave talks about my work I think I fell into the trap of just describing what we do (“we do X Y Z” … “okay, so what?“). With this one, I think I was able to actually say things that were useful to other people.
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In past years I’ve mostly given talks which can mostly be summarized “here are some cool tools” and “here is how to learn hard things”. This year I changed focus to giving talks about the actual work I do – there were two talks about building a Ruby profiler, and one about what I do at work (I spend a lot of time on infrastructure migrations!)
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I’m not sure whether if I’ll give any talks in 2019. I travelled more than I wanted to in 2018, and to stay sane I ended up having to cancel on a talk I was planning to give with relatively short notice which wasn’t good.
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### podcasts!
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I also experimented a bit with a new format: the podcast! These were basically all really fun! They don’t take that long (about 2 hours total?).
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* [Software Engineering Daily][20], on rbspy and how to use a profiler
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* [FLOSS weekly][21], again about rbspy. They told me I’m the guest that asked _them_ the most questions, which I took as a compliment :)
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* [CodeNewbie][22] on computer networking & how the Internet works
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* [Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman][23] on writing zines / teaching / learning
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* [egghead.io][24], on making zines & running a business
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what I learned about doing podcasts:
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* It’s really important to give the hosts a list of good questions to ask, and to be prepared to give good answers to those questions! I’m not a super polished podcast guest.
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* you need a good microphone. At least one of these people told me I actually couldn’t be on their podcast unless I had a good enough microphone, so I bought a [medium fancy microphone][25]. It wasn’t too expensive and it’s nice to have a better quality microphone! Maybe I will use it more to record audio/video at some point!
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### !!Con
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I co-organized [!!Con][26] for the 4th time – I ran sponsorships. It’s always such a delight and the speakers are so great.
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!!Con is expanding [to the west coast in 2019][27] – I’m not directly involved with that but it’s going to be amazing.
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### blog posts!
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I apparently wrote 54 blog posts in 2018. A couple of my favourites are [What’s a senior engineer’s job?][15] , [How to teach yourself hard things][28], and [batch editing files with ed][29].
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There were basically 4 themes in blogging for 2018:
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* progress on the rbspy project while I was working on it ([this category][30])
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* computer networking / infrastructure engineering (basically all I did at work this year was networking, though I didn’t write about it as much as I might have)
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* musings about zines / business / developer education, for instance [why sell zines?][31] and [who pays to educate developers?][32]
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* a few of the usual “how do you learn things” / “how do you succeed at your job” posts as I figure things about about that, for instance [working remotely, 4 years in][33]
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### a tiny inclusion project: a guide to performance reviews
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[Last year][3] in addition to my actual job, I did a couple of projects at work towards helping make sure the performance/promotion process works well for folks – i collaborated with the amazing [karla][34] on the idea of a “brag document”, and redid our engineering levels.
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This year, in the same vein, I wrote a document called the “Unofficial guide to the performance reviews”. A lot of folks said it helped them but probably it’s too early to celebrate. I think explaining to folks how the performance review process actually works and how to approach it is really valuable and I might try to publish a more general version here at some point.
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I like that I work at a place where it’s possible/encouraged to do projects like this. I spend a relatively small amount of time on them (maybe I spent 15 hours on this one?) but it feels good to be able to make tiny steps towards building a better workplace from time to time. It’s really hard to judge the results though!
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### conclusions?
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some things that worked in 2018:
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* setting [boundaries][15] around what my job is
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* doing open source work while being paid for it
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* starting a side business
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* doing small inclusion projects at work
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* writing zines is very time consuming but I feel happy about the time I spent on that
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* blogging is always great
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via: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/12/23/2018--year-in-review/
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[1]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/12/26/2015-year-in-review/
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[2]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/12/21/2016--year-in-review/
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[3]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/31/2017--year-in-review/
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[4]: https://github.com/rbspy/rbspy
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[5]: https://github.com/benfred/py-spy
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[6]: https://github.com/adsr/phpspy/
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[7]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/08/an-awesome-new-python-profiler--py-spy-/
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[8]: https://twitter.com/sehurlburt
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[9]: https://stackingthebricks.com/
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[10]: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Business-Paul-Hawken/dp/0671671642
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[11]: https://egghead.io/
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[12]: https://www.indiehackers.com/
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[13]: https://twitter.com/jshirley
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[14]: https://wizardzines.com/zines/manager/
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[15]: https://jvns.ca/blog/senior-engineer/
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[16]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBMC9bm-KuU
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[17]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/04/16/rbspy-talk/
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[18]: https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/julia-evans-build-impossible-programs
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[19]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obB2IvCv-K0
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[20]: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/05/profilers-with-julia-evans/
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[21]: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/487
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[22]: https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/how-does-the-internet-work
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[23]: https://hanselminutes.com/643/learning-how-to-be-a-wizard-programmer-with-julia-evans
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[24]: https://player.fm/series/eggheadio-developer-chats-1728019/exploring-concepts-and-teaching-using-focused-zines-with-julia-evans
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[25]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EOPQ7E/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000EOPQ7E&linkCode=as2&tag=diabeticbooks&linkId=ZBZBIVR4EB7V6JFL
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[26]: http://bangbangcon.com
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[27]: http://bangbangcon.com/west/
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[28]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice/
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[29]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/05/11/batch-editing-files-with-ed/
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[30]: https://jvns.ca/categories/ruby-profiler/
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[31]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/23/why-sell-zines/
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[32]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/who-pays-to-educate-developers-/
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[33]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/02/18/working-remotely--4-years-in/
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[34]: https://karla.io/
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