In a month's time I will be visiting the #wasmio in #barcelona (as a participant) and I am pretty excited as I haven't visited either, yet.

I stumbled upon #WebAssembly in 2023 (okey, I've heard of it even earlier, but used it onyl in 2023 during the #12in23 by #exercism ), and in 2024 we've been experimenting with it in the context of #GreenIT at our company (i.e. having tiny Wasm Modules spinned up directly in clusters, instead of heavy weight #docker containers). We haven't had the chance to use it in production yet, and so I am really looking forward to see how other people use it and connect with the community.

Anyone here joining the conference as well? Any sessions or speakers or other highlights you're looking forward to? And any hidden gems to visit in Barcelona (as I'll be staying for days longer, after the conference 😇 )?

#wasmio2025 #wasmio25 #conference #trip #travelrecommendation #recommendation #serverless #kubernetes #cluster #ecom

I learned* 12 languages in 2023: a retrospective

https://dev.to/sethcalebweeks/i-learned-12-languages-in-2023-a-retrospective-3e68

Last year, Exercism put together the #12in23 challenge. The goal was to learn a new programming language each month throughout the year. I was one of 135 people who completed the challenge, and I learned a lot along the way! TL;DR Exercism is an...

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#12in23 and Advent of Code 2023

Last year I did have too much time on my hand, and while I spent a lot of time chilling, I did miss using my brain at least a little.
So I worked on these two challenges.

https://christof.damian.net/2024/01/12in23-and-advent-of-code-2023.html

#adventofcode #excercism

2023 has been great for me, but let's not pretend like it's been all rainbows and unicorns.

In 2023, I failed in the following ways 💩:

- gained back most of the fat that I lost in Q1 2022,
- mishandled a transphobic incident at my meetup,
- did not finish the #12in23 Exercism challenge,
- got COVID twice and the common cold twice because of travel, and lost 8 weeks of social life total because of it,
- quit attending German classes because of time, money, and laziness
- read only 3 books

I did #Exercism's #12in23 this year and just published my last #blog post of the year. I talked about my experience with each of these 12 languages:

- #golang
- #elixir
- #julia
- #rust
- #clojure
- #visualbasic
- #swift
- #jq
- #ruby
- #wasm
- #wren
- #lua

It was a fun tour of what's out there today. I had a blast learning and broadening my horizons. Enjoy and see you next year!

https://xavd.id/blog/post/12-languages-in-12-months/

Completed #12in23 challenge
That was awesome. My overall programming knowledge definitely became wider. Without this push from the #Exercism I couldn't imagine myself diving into so many programming languages and concepts in such a small amount of time.

https://exercism.org/challenges/12in23

Didn't expect from myself to fill all the language boxes by the end of the year #12in23. But here I am. And I still haven't really touched the Languages for December. (Lua seems promising)

But the strangest turn of this year of programming for me is that I started to code in c++ for a living.