This was 202231 Dec 2022Year Recaps As the year 2022 comes to an end I took the time to take a look back at what happened during the year. I have grown as a business owner I have learned quite a lot during this year, I managed to move forward with my company and take on bigger challenges. We have built awesome products this year and helped out some new clients and older clients with state-of-the-art tech. I became a public speaker Early this year I did a lightning talk at a Full Stack Belgium meetup. I talked about some quick wins in Laravel. Later this year I also did a lightning talk at the Full Stack Europe yearly conference in Antwerp, this time I talked about Procrastination and the Imposter Syndrome, both things I dealt with in the past years. Taking the stage was a big deal for me personally, it took me a while to decide to finally go for it. My friend Bramus gave me the needed push to commit, a big shoutout to him, “Thank you mate!”. I received loads of support in this endeavour from Bramus, Dries, Freek, and many others. I already have a next gig planned for a full-length talk during January. My YouTube Channel got noticed Even though I started the channel in 2020, I really started putting out videos this year. At the beginning of this year, I only had 38 subscribers, at this moment, on the last day of the year we’re at 606 subscribers. I never dreamed that I would hit those numbers at all. It’s awesome to see this and it motivated me a lot. A big thanks to Dary, Povilas, Freek, and many others for the support! Oh yeah, you can still subscribe here. 😄 In sports After a big crash in September, where I broke my beloved Cervélo S5, I was lucky to wear a helmet. That helmet really saved my life. So as I did before, I’m advocating to wear helmets even more now. Besides that, it was quite a good year. I managed to ride my longest ride so far, and set my new record on 206km. I also broke my running distance record and stopped after 51km of running. Every Wednesday I rode with my local club and that was loads of fun, unfortunately, I can’t tag them here because they don’t have blogs or aren’t on Twitter. I also competed in a few triathlons, but the most important one was the Challenge geraardsbergen in June. This was middle distance race, where we covered 1,9km of Swimming, 90km Bike ride with brutal climbs ( 2x the famous Muur and 2x the Congo ) and we closed off with a 21km run also over a hilly terrain with some difficult climbs at the end. I’m super happy that I managed to complete this race, and by doing so I kept my “clean sheet” of never giving up and always finishing my races. So no DNFs for me. I already have some new races planned for 2023, a few small ones but the main goal will be the Ironman Knokke. 💪 Well, that’s all for me, in 2022. I hope to see you all in 2023, and I wish you all the best in the coming year!
