End of December, beginning of January, time for the usual retrospective.

In 2020, amongst other things, I

• Worked from home.
• Gave a talk at ioday.
• Published 31 blogposts.
• Played some video games:
  • Vermintide 2, a bit repetitive.
  • Stellaris, an accessible 4X in space.
  • Soma, impressive story/storytelling.
  • Dear Esther, nice story, lots of poetry.
  • Inside, disturbing and, poetic I guess?
  • Frostpunk, excellent gloom city builder.
  • Black mesa, a great trip down memory lane.
  • Titanfall 2, nothing but amazing in every way.
  • Prodeus, what doom would be if done in 2020.
  • The vanishing of Ethan Carter, disappointing story.
  • XCOM and XCOM 2, where a 99% chance isn't a 100% one.
  • Cloudpunk, doing the flying courier around a cyberpunk city.
  • Horizon Zero Dawn, excellent ARPG with breathtaking environments.
  • Vampyr, nice RPG with terrible combat, while waiting for Bloodlines 2
  • This war of mine, a refreshing and welcomed take on war in video games.
• Got a proper clickity keyboard.
• Ported Snuffleupagus to php8.
• Added support for PHP to domato.
• Met old friends and made new ones.
• Wrote two challenges for the icectf2020.
• Packaged Snuffleupagus in Alpine Linux.
• Did 2 releases of mat2 and 3 of snuffleugagus.
• Acquired jvois.in and artificialtruth.org, because why not.
• Wrote a lot of fuzzers, and found a large amount of bugs.
• Got some hardware tokens to use MFA everywhere I could.
• Co-organised ██████████ with Gynvael Coldwind.
• Got CVE-2019-20907 for an infinite loop in python's tarfile module.
• Invested in an Pocketbook InkPad3, and read a couple of books as a result:
  • Catch-22,
  • Fight Club,
  • The Circle,
  • Bullshit jobs,
  • Neuromancer,
  • Furiously Happy,
  • The cuckoo's egg,
  • A year in Provence,
  • A clockwork orange,
  • Hyperbole and a half,
  • Judy, Lola, Sofia et moi,
  • a bunch of H.P. Lovecraft,
  • The mythical man-month,
  • The sexual politics of meat,
  • Fear and loathing in Las Vegas,
  • The Design of Everyday Things,
  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
  • Toward a Feminist Theory of the State,
  • Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn/Ravenor,
  • Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?,
  • Cosmology for the curious (disappointing, don't read it.),
  • Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry
  • Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,
  • Been There. Done That. Try This!: An Aspie's Guide to Life on Earth,
  • Countdown to Zero Day: stuxnet and the launch of the world's first digital weapon,
  • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger,
  • Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems,
  • …
• Contributed a bit to calibre-web to have a nice way to share books with friends.
• Enrolled my phone Google's account into Google's Advanced Protection Program.
• Added trusted perfect types to a subset of my services, this blog included, for bragging rights.
• Was involved in the disclosure, analysis and handling process of a couple of exploits against Tails.
• Gave some money away, sometimes matched at 50% by my employer, now that I have a comfortable salary:
  • ~10.000 USD to Tails
  • ~10.000 USD to Riseup
  • 400 USD to the Tor Project
  • 150 USD/month to Rich Felker for maintaining musl
  • a couple of hours on my worktime to translate Signal in French
• Read MacKinnon, Dworkin, Dines and others, which helped me to articulate and cement my views on pornography.
• Replaced my swarm of small arm computers with an hypervisor, lowering the maintenance overhead of my services.
• Made the subtitle of this blog clickable, to get a new stupid quote every time. There are now more than 300 of them, go nuts.
• Had the pleasure to act as an External expert for Matteo Rizzo's thesis Hardening and Testing Privileged Code through Binary Rewriting
• Significantly improved my health, by addressing some long-standing medical issues, and made peace with my inner self: I'm now feeling better.
• Took over the maintenance of Snuffleupagus and php-malware-finder from NBS System, since I was the only one maintaining them anyway.
• Deployed Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr to take care of finding media for me, and I must say that I'm impressed by how well they're working, and how easy it is to use them.
• Wrote some code for AdGuard Home, to replace my Pi-Hole, since I put more trusted into a go binary than into lighttpd and dnsmasq (ugh.) ducktaped together with bash scripts.

2020 was definitely better than 2019, at least for me.