Phew! 2020 was a crazy year!

For most people 2020 was tragic and probably you wish that no year should be as worst as 2020, which I agree too!

But... 2020 was one of THE most successful year for me

Highlights of 2020!

• GOT AN AMAZING JOB AT @timelessco as a FrontEnd Engineer! 😍
• Bought my mom a saree from my own salary which was my mom's dream.
• Bought a shiny new laptop ❤️
• Launched github-readme-stats which was a huge success
• github-readme-stats hit 10k stars on github (now 16k)
• github-readme-stats got sponsored by Vercel
• github-readme-stats become one of the rising stars of 2020
• Released my project BugVilla
• Gave my first ever conference talk on typescript
• Participated in Official GitHub Actions Hackathon and got merchs!
• Got lots of OSS donations for github-readme-stats largest was $100 from Robert Hofmann (Thanks Robert!)
• Finished #DesignPatternsEveryday challenge and wrote blog which got lots of attention.
• Started working on ConvoyChat
• Started working on renderlesskit at work
• @realtoughcandy reviewed my portfolio site
• Started learning Rust
• Learned some advanced TypeScript patterns
• Got my Gatsby swag!
• Forgot to claim my github action hackathon prize 😂 (but thankfully got it after contacting Nat Friedman)
• Finished yet another hacktoberfest
• Stopped using facebook
• Gained a bit fat :p
• Made lot of new friends on discord & twitter

Other Random Stuff I Did

• Started Learning GraphQL
• Made few creative coding projects
• Learned a lot about testing
• Learned a lot about making a11y react components
• Learned Design Patterns
• Did lot of open source stuff
• Created few UI Designs
• Wrote few blogs
• Learned a bit of XSS
• Started doing some leetcode (but eventually left it)
• Learned a few neat js animation tricks
• Tried out few libraries like MobX, Recoil, XState, ThemeUI, Svelte
• Learned some advanced Typescript patterns

2020 might be a bad year but still 2020 was full of success, learnings & happiness for me and my family!

We all lost lot of things this year, learned lot of stuff, and I hope at the end of the year we overcome all our difficulties and hope for the best in 2021!

Happy New Year! Cheers! 🥂