2015 In Review

2015-12-30 by Quinlan Pfifferyear-end-review

Lot’s of turmoil this year, good and bad things. I feel like I’m a better person than I was last year.

Accomplishments

Driver’s License + Car (Wooo!)
Gained ~20 pounds (135 -> 155)
I’m in the best shape of my life
Got two bikes stolen, one was recovered. Learned my lesson there.
Met a lot of new people
Travelled to New York to see family with just my brother
New Tattoos
Hiked quite a bit
Started doing daily journalling to cope with memory loss. This has improved my hand-writing and memory.
Wore some stupid shirts to OSBridge.
Helped build and then camped in a dome in the Alvord Desert. Bonus Video.
Didn’t play street fighter at all
Had the best fight of my life where this happened.
Didn’t drink for the two months before said fight
Started rock climbing, made it out to smith rock.
Passed CHN202
Camped out in a dome on the river with some friends
Hosted a Tuesday-night singlespeed-only ride for a while
Rode around Portland more than any other year. Met a lot of cool people via bikescum groups.
Sort of learned to cook. I can make some pretty mean chicken breast in the oven now.
Books for this year, couple of re-reads:
- We Live Inside You
- Skullcrack City
- Black Hole
- Survivor
- Haunted
- Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
- Candide
- Venus in Furs

Skulledit - Random project in Love2D that I wheedle on every now and then to implement the skullcode hex editor.
38-Moths - Split waifu.xyz into a framework in C. Actually pretty cool, reasonably fast and easy to use. Pretty proud of this one, actually.
Printer Facts API - Uses the 38-Moths framework to serve Printer facts at Webscale speeds.
Simple Sparsehash - A re-implementation of Google’s sparsehash, got me a little internet fame and was a really good learning opportunity.
Clear Waste of Time - Random, tiny IRC-spawned ideas. Kind of a fun collection of stupid shit.
Mayo-Workbench - Uses 38-Moths to display information about an OlegDB instance.

Lair - Still kicking, some how. Started working on it again. Some people are excited.
#metaforcefeed - Still chugging along even after the huge data failure. It now handles events and some RSVP-like capabilities.
shithouse.tv - Still one of my more popular things, had quite a few PR’s from my favorite person and a few new features.
merveilles.io - Still kicking along since 2013, haven’t really had to touch it. You can see the one remaining instance here.

OlegDB - Didn’t really touch it this year, a weird segfault in olt_spoil kind of defeated me.
waifu.xyz - Defeated after numerous segfaults, hosting costs and random shit. Decided to shelve it for the time being.
voidcrash - I don’t even know. No explicit goal or timeframe, mostly just mythos/world building with a friend of mine.

zx - Was going to use this as a time tracking utility but stopped caring pretty quickly.
PrinterFS - Was going to be a distributed file system. Ended up being too complicated.
PrintlessFS - Was going to use this as FUSE bindings to rethinkdb for waifu. Overwhelmed and under-motivated.
Thray - Was going to be an exercise with a friend of mine to scrape tumblr. Got distracted and started working on other things. Wrote some C++ that hits the tumble endpoints, though.

I spent way too much money on cassette tapes
I haven’t created as much as I wanted to
Hurt some people.
Didn’t work on OlegDB much at all this year.
Failed CHN203
waifu.xyz kind of stopped being a thing. Currently in Limbo. I put a lot of effort into it last year. Sucks to see it languishing.
Didn’t leave the country this year
Didn’t write as much code as I wanted to
Slept too much

Revive the Lost Kids Ride
Throw an unsanctioned race or two
Be able to hold a free handstand for a minute
Get the hell out of the country
Continue boxing, rock-climbing
Race Track
Read more Books
Create something that isn’t code: Clothing, sculpture, some kind of interactive art piece, sketching/drawing
Use all of the paint
Camp in the dome again
Don’t drink at all (Let’s try full straight-edge!)
Journal every day
Take more pictures, like 2013
Pass CHN203