2024 In Review

It's the last day of the year, and in keeping with tradition, I want to take a moment to reflect on 2024!

I continued in my role at Kizen, working on some exciting projects that hopefully I can talk more about soon! I also started riding my bike again and got pretty serious about road cycling! I did a few fun rides this year including my first 100 km group ride. Overall, I focused less on side projects and more on my hobbies and career this year, but keep reading to hear about one of my favorite projects from the year!

From My Blog

It was a busy year! Here's a quick walk back through all the posts I wrote:

My first post of the year was about a common code smell, and some potential improvements regarding changing props:

I went on to review some the architecture decisions I made back in 2023, and how I feel about them today:

In April, I found myself missing hackathons a bit and decided to spend a weekend hacking on a project and see how far I could get. I build thirty bot, and wrote about the process. It's an application for generating cocktails based on ingredients you have on hand! I really enjoyed building this and it's one of my favorite projects from the year.

As part of that project, I learned about Vercel Deployment Protection to manage my Next.js preview deployment security:

When I finished Thirty Bot, I wrote an in-depth review of the project and the various tools I leveraged to build it!

I like to write about CSS from time to time, and this year I wrote about media queries and how they can be an accessiblity tool:

I also got to go to a few conferences this year! First up was React Miami, which was a first for me! I wrote up a summary of my time there:

Next, I went to Render ATL in July! This conference in Atlanta is my favorite one of the year, and it was a ton of fun again! I wrote a summary of that one too, and I'll be going again in 2025!

For the third conference, I got a chance to speak on a panel! This was at San Antonio Startup Week, and I really enjoyed it! I want to do more of these going forward in the new year. I wrote a blog post about some of the discussions, including some videos of the panel:

Finally, I wrote a bit about data ownership and how platforms can lock away our data, and what I do to make sure I own my data:

Happy Holidays!

Thanks for reading this year! I hope you enjoyed something I wrote, and I'm looking forward to writing more in 2025! Happy holidays and happy new year!