2024 - a year in review
Travel
- Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
- Tokyo, Japen
- Goa, India
- Lepakshi, India
Life
- learnt to deal with death
- Standing on my own two feet
- was alone in a foreign country for the first time
- pulled myself out of burnout and stagnation
- Attended many concerts - saw some really cool folks live and even a street performance
- saw Shaan, Shankar Mahadevan, Thaikkudam Bridge, Girish and the Chronicles, Antimatter, Divyatom Deb - live!
- Saw a play live at Ranga Shankara
- played in the snow for the first time ever
- saw the stars at nighttime from a flight, over the sea
- celebrated the first rain of the year :D
- fine-dined for the first time (Zen, Leela Palace)
- Learnt to stop being overly humble and dismissive of myself
- Learnt that many people on the internet just need a reason to hate on someone
- bought my first art and got it framed
- started guitar classes
- officially graduated college
- attended my school's 5 year reunion
- Bought myself
- Macbook Pro
- Bose QC Ultra
- HHKB Professional Hybrid
- new Guitar Amp
- CMF Buds pro 2
Health
- Started and finished some degree of personal training in the gym
- taking a morning walk every day is now a habit
- not meditating anymore?
- much more comfortable being alone
- back to playing badminton on a more regular basis
Learning
- Made good progress on reading research papers and books
- Database Internals: Chapter 5
- Delta Lake paper
- Skiplist paper
- Raft Paper
- LSM Tree paper
- Calvin
- Dostoevsky
- Got back into the habit of writing code on a much more regular basis - pulled myself out of an 8 month long rut
- Implemented Raft in Rust
- Implemented an LSM Tree in Rust
- Implemented a Skiplist in C++
- Implemented a Vector Clock in Go
- Implemented an HTTP Timer Daemon in Go
- Implemented multiple prototype/PoC projects
- Started Bengaluru Systems
- bought (and wasted) Codecrafters subscription
- attended and moderated a panel at Rootconf Mini
- Figured out that Sketching is the way to build side projects that works for me
Work
- College send-off - got recognized for my contributions to the department with a separate award and certificate
- Got my paper published and attended an academic conference for the first time ever
- started working full-time
- Started a research paper reading group at work
- joined the AI Team, came up with early prototypes + ideas for hosted RAG pipeline
- joined the Analytics DB Team, did some research on Delta Lake
- joined Magma, started writing C++
- Organzied the Rust Bangalore Meetup at Couchbase