
2018 Goals: How did I do?
I swear I remember to do this article later every year.
The inane mutterings of Alexander Foxleigh
Hi. I'm Alex, I'm a senior full-stack developer with a passion for building performant, accessible and highly usable web applications.
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Here is an assorted collection of my rants, ravings and general ramblings. I apologise in advance.
I swear I remember to do this article later every year.
Every year, I like to set myself a public list of goals that I then do my best to acheive. Some years it works, some years it doesn't, most years I manage to make this list before nearly a quarter of it is already in the past, this was not one of those years.
The Vive Pro is out and the Pimax is on the horizon, whilst it's too early to tell what the Pimax will be like, the reviews are in on the Vive Pro and they all seem to be "Meh, it's a nice little bump but hardly gen 2". So... What DOES Gen 2 look like?
With Ready Player One out in cinemas and a few new headsets on the horizon, Virtual Reality is in the news again. I've been a fan of VR since the original Developer Kit of the Oculus Rift (known as the DK1) went on Kickstarter, I remember when I first received the DK1 and tried it out in 2013, my world was changed forever.
What if the internet never existed? Where would you be? WHO would you be? Here is an alternate history of my life if the internet had never existed.
I had a lot of goals last year, how many did I acheive?
This year has a hard act to follow, in 2017 I smashed all but one of my goals and they were not small goals (Get married, Save 15k, Buy a house, publish a book). I still have goals left to achieve though so let's get them down!
If you are new to the dev industry, it can be daunting. I’ve been doing this for 19 years, so here are my top 5 tips.