year in review

Chapter Three is Upon Us

Raquel Velez

Dec 31, 2013 — 1 min read

My crazy experiment started in January 2012. I thought I knew what I wanted, but in truth I had no idea what lay ahead.

And now, um... 2014 is starting in less than two hours.

2013 was amazing; what started out as an adventure in San Francisco has resulted in pretty much the most incredible year I could have ever hoped for.

2014 will be even more incredible, with more writing, more speaking, and a whole lot more JavaScript!! :-D

Massive - MASSIVE - thanks go to all the incredible friends (old and new!) who have encouraged me to be my crazy self.

Silly me, trying to help with scalenpm

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