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2016 has been an eventful year in many, many ways. I don't want to dwell on big global topics in this post, but review what I got up to. ## Writing {% assign 2016posts = site.posts | where:"date","2016" %} In 2016, I wrote approximately {{ 2016posts.size }} articles, blog posts and tutorials. The most popular on my Medium account was '[A documentation crash course](https://hackernoon.com/a-documentation-crash-course-45006a85c15c#.790b6ze0w)', closely followed by '[Making Atom even more awesome](https://hackernoon.com/making-atom-even-more-awesome-my-setup-e7a89969a876#.s2yhf3joo)' and '[Tech your privilege at the door](https://hackernoon.com/tech-your-privilege-at-the-door-5d8da0c41c6b#.eemgzrjyd)' (which was only published a week ago)....

Last year at IFA I came across a small stall lurking within a gathering of startups. The booth was full of blinking small blocks, motors and switches that aimed to help children learn to code. Fresh from my experiences and reflections teaching Syrian refugees to code, [I have been pondering the best ways to do so ever since](https://www.sitepoint.com/teaching-programming-whats-the-best-language-for-beginners/). In a series of posts that will cover a variety of projects, and a broader summary post, I intend to look at a variety of different techniques for teaching coding, especiall...

After using macOS for over 20 years I was interested to get new perspectives and try other operating systems in my daily work. In this first part, I spend a month with Windows.

After using macOS for over 20 years I was interested to get new perspectives and try other operating systems in my daily work. In this second part, I spend a month with Linux.

I began my round of 2016 with how eventful it was, and 2017 continued to deliver major world events that shook countries, cities and people. Despite this, I had a largely positive year, switching from an employee back to a contractor again, which was a largely positive move. I changed my major outlet from SitePoint to DZone, added a handful of others, wrote a lot of content marketing posts for tech companies, wrote a book and (nearly) finished a video course. On top of all that I travelled to m...

Slightly late on my yearly roundup, which was the catchphrase of the year for me. I'm not quite sure where 2018 went, to be honest, I had so many plans, then it was halfway through the year, then it was over. One of my resolutions for 2019 is to make sure I have more time for personal and creative projects. Which I think I also said last year 😭. All in all, it was a good year, and I worked for a lot of interesting projects, which explains the lack of time. I travelled a little too much, but v...