Looking back at 2020

2020 hasn't been short on events. We added multiple environment support at Divio, with a bunch of fantastic UI improvements. My studies at FHNW finally started after a year of preparation, and of course, Corona disturbed all our lives.

**Fig. 008** A small house taken apart into its base with a desk inside and its walls, the roof lifted off in orange.

To finish the year, I summarise what I’ve been doing at work, school and otherwise in this article. For my sanity and everyone else’s; as bullet points 😅.

Working hard

We added multiple environments, customisable services, new views, better logs, changelog, a lot of automation, and many more UI improvements to Divio Cloud.
We upgraded django CMS to support Django Version 3 and above plus released django CMS 3.8.0 along the way.
The django CMS Association was founded with support from many other companies to lead the future for django CMS and its ecosystem.
Corona didn’t spare our company, so we had to say goodbye to some great team members and friends.
I have been working at home for about two days a week in the past. Corona changed this to full-time home-office. It sounds great on paper, but I like to be at the office at least once or twice to get out of the house.
I also teach at HSR (now OST) and recreated most of the material for the lectures that year with success.

Learning again

I completed the preparation course to join FHNW’s bachelor programme successfully.
Now studying Computer Science and almost finished my first semester without any significant issues.
Passed the initial evaluation tests to join the English electives (highest grades) and got additional free ECTS points 😎.
Also, Corona isn’t much fun here. Even though we started the first days on campus, the latter half was remote.
Played Badminton at school at first, but again, Corona 🤮.
Grateful to all other students and new won friends, making it through this difficult time.

Personal achievements

I published my website and a blog post every month!
Started to record a journal about my days to create this summary ultimately 👍.
Began with new morning and evening routines that help me to be a bit more efficient.
A tropical sickness plagued me for weeks, that wasn’t fun.
Had some great financial success investing in companies, might start writing about that in the future.
Was able to read again about 50 books this year! Looking at less though in 2021 as studies will consume more time.
Neglected Anki and Udemy this year to focus on other things, let’s see if I can get that back on track 2021.

A big thank you

I want to thank everyone who helped me at work, at school or privately to have a good 2020. Especially Jasmin, my better half, who got me through some rough times. 2021 looks good so far, and I might have a ton of new updates by the end of it, looking forward to some big changes!

‘Till next time!