Year in a Post (2020)

Since everyone with a blog is obligated to write this, I guess I'll do my due diligence as well.

My year wasn't that bad. Now don't get me wrong, lot's of bad things happened to lots of good people this year. I'm going to skip listing those because that might take a while. But you all know the almost World War 3, COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of deaths and many more tragic things that happened.

I was in Malaysia when the year began and came to Maldives in February for year end break. Little did I know that I would be "stuck" here for the whole year.

First year of University ended pretty good. I got my expected results and was looking forward to the second year. My second year got delayed much further and several of my friends deferred hoping to come back to campus before August. However, we all ended up with online classes. I don't really have a problem with online classes. However, my internet does. I ended up getting a seperate modem for studying cause the ADSL connection in my sister's house in Hulhumale' wasn't really helping. Having to download VMWare Images and Visual Studio development stacks didn't help at all. The Ooredoo Faseyha broadband modem was able to handle all my needs including gaming.

Ramadan went by quickly and I decided it was time to move to Addu. Despite all my hopes of returning to Malaysia before August, it was starting to seem like that wasn't to happen anytime soon. With my move to Addu, I was quarantined in my room for 14 days before being able to go out. The internet here in Addu was bearable. I had a Dhiraagu Fiber connection all to myself.  Ofcourse, the allowance for the month ran out as I was still attending online classes, downloading all sorts of software and tools.

The year has been quite a learning curve. From R programming to Java, I've learned a lot during the year. I finished several online courses during my quarantine at Hulhumale' as well. On my own, I've learned some new libraries such as aiohttp, django, celery, cv2, pyzbar, fastAPI in Python. I'm also mastering my ethical hacking knowledge with penetration and forensic investigation tools.

Baivaru had a fantastic year accomplishing it's goal of automation. Almost everything was automated including, movies, series and songs. Books is on the verge of being automated and a new major proiect was started by our team. I cannot discuss much into that as it's still in beta stage.

I made my first pip package this year (Dhivatar), which was then further developed into a service via API by Athfan. I also learned FastAPI and developed a few APIs using our databases. We have a few Dhivehi related databases and we plan on making them all available to the public via our APIs.

This year, the only game I really played was Counter Strike Global Offensive. I've ranked up from Silver to Gold Nova 3. Not really the best at the game but it's fun to play with the community of idiots (what they call themselves) who are usually 2 hours late to the party.

All in all, it's wasn't really a bad year for me. Coming to Addu has allowed me to be a bit more at ease than I was when in the heavily restricted Male' area. I hang out very often (according to me) with my friends here in Addu and try to be more social.

Although it wasn't a bad year, there were some trying times during the year. I wouldn't have been really able to get through those without my person. Thank you for being there throughout the year love ❤️.

Looking forward to another year of learning, growing, failing and trying. Thank you for reading my year in a review. I tried to include everything but might have missed some important things. Hope your 2021 starts off well!