Travel
- Portland, OR
- Tulum, Mexico
- Los Angeles
- Toronto & Ottawa
- shorter trips to Seattle/Victoria/Whistler
Exercise
- Ran my first 2 half marathons
- Both completed in under 2 hours, best time 1:49:52
- Can actually do some chin-ups now. Not many, but it's a start
Music
- Saw jazz legend Kenny Burrell in concert
- Saw Avenue Q, which was equally amazing
- New discoveries (no particular order): Flying Lotus, Random Access Memories (album of the summer for sure), Michael Kiwanuka, Tosca, Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, and Andrew Mason's equally majestic Hardly Workin’
Reading
Completed 38 books (not bad). Favourites included:
- Meditations (re-read this incredible classic)
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- Pragmatism
- Beautiful Evidence
- Test Driven Development: By Example
- The Golden Spruce
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Development
- SQL Antipatterns
- Practical Vim (indispensible if you use Vim)
Work
- Participated in Warner Brothers’ Media Camp LA program (a great experience!)
- Helped launch a pilot program of Warner Bros films on Reelhouse
Open Source
- littledom, a tiny DOM library
- backprop, for using ES5 properties with Backbone
- shamus, a work-in-progress desktop app for instant feedback during development (using node-webkit).
- Small contributions to about a dozen other projects. It wasn't much, but it was something I'd like to build on for 2014.
Misc
- Finally set up a personal site (this one)
- Learned how to cook beef brisket (easy and delicious!)
- Attended the CascadiaJS javascript conference, which was great
Overall not bad, but there was some personal stuff that put a damper on 2013 for me. Bring on the New Year!