2024: Year in review

This year was amazing on all fronts, I want to look back.

Professionally

I kept working on Saturday Quiz Time, learned a lot and had fun
My Legis Music contract ended, but I’m proud of what I achieved in a year
I earned money from Open-Source for the first time, by working on Astro as a core maintainer
I started working for Seibert Group at the end of the year, with some unique challenges
I took more holidays, but still less than I should. Area of improvement for 2025!

At the end of 2023, I decided to invest more time and energy in Astro. I think it showed:
I created astro-integration-kit to help build integrations. It’s now one of the most Astro related downloaded NPM packages
I created astro-integration-template which helped people ship dozens of integrations this year (Improvements coming soon!)
I made many integrations and packages, including astro-loading-indicator and astro-typed-links
I found out maintaining all of those is hard, and calmed down a bit
Astrolicious and astro-tips
I championed the astro:env RFC and contributed this big feature to Astro, which was released as stable in 5.0
I became an Astro core maintainer and helped maintaing the framework
I met some of the Astro core team at the Dublin off-site

There’s more I must be forgetting, but the list is big enough already! Looking forward to 2025!