# 2018 Reflections and 2019 Goals: Practicing Vim and Rethinking Privacy

DevFeed: [2018 Reflections and 2019 Goals: Practicing Vim and Rethinking Privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-year-2019-25298.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kau.sh/blog/new-year-2019/>)

Author: Kaushik Gopal

Published: 2019-01-22T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Kaushik Gopal's Site](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kaushik-gopal-s-site.md>)

Topics: [Vim](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vim.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>)

Tags: [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [instacart](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instacart.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>), [vim](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vim.md>)

## AI overview

A personal reflection on 2018 and a set of goals for 2019, including practicing Vim for 30 days, improving developer tooling, and paying more attention to privacy. It also recounts organizing Instacart's hackathon, speaking at a conference in Russia, and producing the 100th episode of Fragmented.

## Source excerpt

So i've been doing these kinds of posts for sometime now. Truth is i've been inconsistent with the format. Sometimes these are reflection posts (what happened last year) and other times they are resolutions posts (what i'm looking forward to in the next year). Usually it lands up being an amalgam of both, and I kind of like that personally. So i'm going to stick to keeping it a mishmash of thoughts as i begin the new year. 2018 in review: # So the brother was married end of 2017 and while things got busy (Indian weddings and all), it was a blast. I helped organize Instacart's annual hackathon for the first time and it was way more fun than i anticipated :). I spoke at a conference in Russia. Moscow was one of the most beautiful cities i've visited and i was surprised by how friendly the folks were. Easily one of the best trips last year. Definitely going to be visiting them again (don't let the current political climate fool you, it's refreshing how much the locals don't care about that stuff). We created our 100th episode on Fragmented (it was in 2018, but i didn't write one of these posts for that year so i'm allowed to cheat). It remains one of the most fulfilling projects i've started in my life. The listeners remain the #1 reason Donn and I continue push episodes every week. I watched a tonne of movies in the theaters. Sadly, i didn't keep a track of them but intend to for 2020 (already counting 5 movies watched this year). 2019 todos: # While i think it's important to live life as the universe serves it to you, i typically like to have a few goals or things in my bucket list that i like to kick the year off with. These are the ones i'm thinking/starting with for 2019: Practice Vim for 30 days ## I love tinkering with my tools and i genuinely think that responsible "good" programmers spend at least 20-30% of their time tweaking their tooling. I've also noticed over the years, that the mentors i look up to, who use vim, friggin fly with it. It's mesmerizing to s