Hi there! 2022 year ending up and time to conclude of this one. Actualy this year was quite different, sometimes extra hard, but once in a while happy
Open Source
In this year I tried to focus on open source community and support my lovely projects in different ways.
Financial
First of all I started to support open projects financially. My donations not so huge but thats all I can afford it. In outgoing year I donated $67.1 in summary
Summary year donation $61
A huge amount of time in my carrier I developed software with Eclipse IDE helps, especially with PHP Development Kit (PDT). PDT was powered by Dawid Pakuła (@zulus) and I started to donate him. Hope that PHP 8 support will be coming in new 2023 year. Also I support Eclipse Foundation, Inc for great iDE
[Website] Eclipse Foundation, Inc. $15
[GitHub] Dawid Pakuła $6
Since 2021 I started to developing software on Laravel PHP framework and now I support creater of framework Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell). Very thankful Taylor and community for amazing PHP tools.
[GitHub] Taylor Otwell $3.1
In outgoing year I developed quite valuable tools with Slim Framework helps, it were pet and commercial small projects. Thank you lead developer Pierre Bérubé (@l0gicgate) and community of Slim Framework for great tool!
[OpenCollective] Slim Framework $17
My native programming language is PHP because the most time in my career I developed software with PHP helps. I started to support PHP Foundation in this year. Thanks PHP core team and community for amazing language
[OpenCollective] PHP Foundation $16
In most time to develop raster graphics i use GIMP and this one was developed by GNOME Foundation. Really appreciate for brilliant and stable tool for creation aims.
[Website] Gnome Foundation $10
Some screenshots of my donations
Other contributing
Besides financial part of support I
- Created 2 feature request in Insomnia project
- Created 2 issue for some projects
- Participated in discussions
Eco lifestyle
I try my best to follow eco lifestyle but this year was not really productive in that way. I handed over for recycling only 8.5 kg. That’s not so much but I’m going to focus on eco hobbits more properly in next year.
Career
Events
In this year I was be part of some interesting events:
- KazHackStan 2022 – The largest practical conference on cybersecurity in Central Asia
- Digital Bridge 2022 – international forum about digital technologies and business.
Speaches
In this year I started practicing speeches on meetup events. In early spring I debut my first speech on Kolesa PHP Meetup and after some time I had small tour with interesting report in some cities of Kazakhstan.
Articles
Honestly I planed more writing in 2022, but released only one article
Press
In the most of this year I worked with team in start up company and Forbes magazine wrote article about product. Also 5QMedia and Digital Business wrote article too.
Pet-projects
In outgoing year I started up only one pet-project and it was “Quick Space” app for feature phones which give users a chance to read about space events like rocket launches.
Culture
Books
I’m not so good in reading books but I tried my best and read 7 books in this year
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe
- Fredrik Backman: En Man Som Heter Ove
- Arthur Hailey: Airport
- Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
- Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
- Jack London: Martin Eden
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Monday Begins on Saturday
Concerts and theatre
I and my wife try cultural enlightenment and went to different culture events in this year:
- Mashina Vremeni – Rock band
- Valery Meladze – singer
- Ne prosto orchestra – orchestra
- Love and Pigeons – theatre
- Rock Opera – opera
- Linki Park – instrumental covers concert
- Matrix – cinema
Helth
Sport
In this year I didn’t participate in any sport events, only like a viewer and support my brother on Almaty Marathon event, but I got a new year present from my brother and it was Scandinavian sticks and I start to practice Nordic walking
Medicine
In this year I checked up my health in local clinic within scheduled medical examination. It was eyes, lungs, kidneys and my back. Also I took some tests
Hobbies
Actually I involved myself in some hobbies and one of them is retro staff. I like staff from my childhood like game consoles (sega, dendy), cassette players, VHS, toys and so on. Also I created a YouTube channel where I publish digitization of VHS and sometimes I talk something about childhood and retro staff
I think it’s not everything that I wanted to conclude but that’s all that I remember for some days of writing.
Happy Holidays guys and take care!
See you!