2020 was the year of getting these fucking monkeys off my back!
- CPTSD / Agoraphobia
- VPS development pipeline
- Laravel & Vue
- Manifested a car
- Solopreneur
- CPTSD/Agoraphobia
In 2020, I entered year 5 of CPTSD recovery. I felt pretty shitty about it being 5 years and not yet recovered.
Earlier this year, I was FINALLY able to drive myself to and walk around the mall without my spouse holding my hand! Then the pandemic hit…
- VPS development pipeline
When I jumped from PHP to front-end frameworks, my pushing code to production came to a standstill. I have a VPS server and literally waited years for upgrades to PHP 7, git 2, and a long awaited CPanel upgrade.
Then I ditched CPanel for DirectAdmin, and thankfully, my VPS provider will now install stuff outside of “only what’s with CPanel”
- Laravel & Vue
I have been studying Laravel on/off since v5. I kept trying to get it to work with pre-existing projects to no avail, continually giving up in frustration, and kept to just PHP.
As for Vue, I REALLY wish I ditched React sooner.
- Manifested a car
Part of my fear in leaving the house for so many years, has been driving stick shift in a tiny car that was only supposed to be a cheap replacement until car accident money came in to buy a better car.
That was over 6 years ago now, fuck you ICBC!
- Solopreneur
I have always been entrepreneurial minded and wanted to run my own business. Because of the CPTSD, I had been trying for years to break back into the tech industry – but how fucked up is the hiring process now!?!?
So I officially said, ‘fuck it, I’ll be your competitor instead!”
Am I happy with it being so long ago that I decided to get back into the ‘booming tech industry’ that ‘lacks talent’?
Hell no! But I have kept reminding myself that this year is the year that is year 0, the previous 5 I was healing from the hell
2021 will be the year of BUILDing products!
While I don’t know if I’ll ever go the employee route when it comes to paying others to help build parts of my projects, I am certainly very focused on creating the work environment that I never had!