2020. What a year it’s been.

I don’t need to tell you that 2020 has been a crazy year. It’s certainly been a year of change resulting in us reflecting on our everyday lives and deciding what we need and don’t.

When Melbourne was in lockdown, things changed for us. My wife was no longer working, and my eight-year-old son was now homeschooling. We automatically started making adjustments to our everyday lives:

• We started a little veggie patch in our back garden and have successfully grown tomatoes, eggplants, courgettes and strawberries.
• We bought bicycles so we could explore the local cycle trails and get our daily exercise. We now, even out of lockdown, prefer to go and buy our groceries using our bikes rather than our cars when we can.
• We bike it to school because it’s so much quicker and easier. Sadly the pollution from all the commuter cars has returned.
• We’ve stopped getting takeaways!
• We shopped for essentials only.
• And, we got used to spending time at home.

Full steam ahead

But apart from all these lifestyle changes, this year I’ve had the opportunity to work on some wonderful projects. I’ve launched four large ecommerce websites along the way, which is quite an achievement for an independent devsigner.

This little chart on my Github profile shows how “active” my year has been from a development aspect. Of course, this doesn’t even consider any of the design work I did throughout the year, or some of the smaller website feature implementations I integrated such as “click and collect”.

So, as you can see, it has been an extremely busy year for me right through to December. I’ve not had any breaks this year, so am taking the whole of January off for some much-needed relaxation. Looking forward to it! 🙂