2017 Retrospective </2017>

If you want, you can follow my retrospectives from 2013 and 2016 (in Portuguese).

This was definitely a year full of professional and personal wins. There were lots of trips, a bunch of concerts, a new apartment, a new job, a hell of a growth spurt for Front-end BR, among other things.

I’m going to focus only on my professional life, split by quarter. And to keep the read from getting tiring, I’ll break it into bullet points again.

January / February / March

Final edition of Meetup CSS

Right at the start of the year, I wrote an article showing a bunch of cool frontender events happening in 2017
I wrote an article (in English), telling how my workflow looked at that moment
Meetup CSS edition 23 happened at Anhembi Morumbi for the students there, with a talk by Raphael Fabeni
I wrote a really cool tip, teaching a technique using white-space: nowrap in CSS to build some nice fallbacks (in Portuguese)
Raphael Fabeni and I decided to take a break from Meetup CSS
During the first Front-end Week of the year, the last official edition of Meetup CSS happened, with great talks by Mario Souto and the wonderful Alda Rocha.
I created a project to list the open coding challenges from companies around the world, Front-end Challenges

April/May/June

Things got pretty hectic here…

Classic photo of Cubo

William Oliveira did an interview about my day-to-day as a developer to publish on Training Center
I switched jobs and came to work at Cubo, a fantastic place with incredible people
And as soon as I switched jobs, I decided to move close to it so I wouldn’t lose the quality of life I had while working remotely (in Portuguese)

Classic photo of the building’s terrace

I wrote a text sharing my perception of the current state of Front-end development
And right after that, I wrote another text, about how motivation in the development world can turn into demotivation
Then came the second edition of Front-end Week, simply spectacular. You can get the full picture of the 2017 events by reading this text by Diogo Moretti

Zeno Rocha at Meetup CSS

We took the chance to run a surprise edition of Meetup CSS, with talks from two legends of Brazilian development: Sérgio Lopes and Zeno Rocha

We used that day to record a live stream on YouTube straight from Cubo, with lots of people joining and asking questions. The people on this live were Zeno Rocha, Bernard De Luna, Afonso Pacifer, Giovanni Keppelen and me.

Coding at Code in The Dark

There was one of the best editions of Front in Sampa
I didn’t ask for it, but they put me up to code at Code in the Dark Brasil. In that round, joining me were Alda Rocha (mjcoffeeholick), Nath Paiva and Raphael Fabeni. The challenge was to build a Pacman, I was very drunk, but who knows how, I won the whole thing, haha
Later, sober and without the pressure of the event, I decided to recreate the Pacman drawing challenge, without seeing the final result and in 15 minutes ( and it turned out pretty cool

July/August/September

There were a ton of tattoos this year 😹

We kicked off development of Cubo’s digital platform
After delivering the MVP, I wrote a text about how this totally new experience was for me
The product launch got great repercussion, with press coverage during Cubo’s anniversary

October / November / December

Front-end BR was an official community of InterCon 2017

I talked about 15 things I would do if I were starting out as a developer
And then I did a Sunscreen-style version (the “Wear Sunscreen” speech), asking: Share knowledge
Front-end BR was invited to be an official community of InterCon 2017, you all are badass
After months without writing on my site, I made a tutorial showing that the Linux terminal runs really well inside Windows (in Portuguese)
I had a chat with Yanka Santos from Do Porto Ao Vale, telling a bit about my career
With my buddies here at Cubo, I helped organize the first edition of Meetup Serverless SP. The talks were by Carolina Pascale Campos and Xhamps Rapha, two badass developers I have the pleasure of working with

I believe 2017 was my best professional moment. I think I’m more well-rounded professionally today than I was at the end of 2016, and a lot of that comes from coming to work at Cubo, surrounded by amazing people and working on several fronts of the project.

Maybe because of that, it was a time of change in my professional positioning. For the first time in my career I stopped focusing so much on Front-end (especially CSS) to get better in other areas, ranging from Back-end development to product planning.

So it was a year of a lot of reflection, and that resulted in less technical texts (and even tweets!) and less participation in open source projects than in other years.

I’m really excited about where things are heading in 2018. Let’s all go together on this one!

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