Title: 2018 in retrospect
Date: 2018-12-31 23:59

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

In 2018, I

- Published 39 blogposts, bringing the total to more than 200, time flies.
- Wrote three articles in French for *paper magazines*: one about
	[Snuffleupagus]( https://snuffleupagus.readthedocs.io/ )
	in [GNU/Linux Magazine](https://www.gnulinuxmag.com),
	and two others, about [angr](https://angr.io) and Snuffleupagus again,
	in [MISC](https://www.miscmag.com/).
- Speaking of Snuffleupagus and speaking of speaking, I spoke at the
  [44con](https://44con.com/44con/44con-2018/44con-2018-talks/) and
	[Pass the Salt](https://2018.pass-the-salt.org/schedule/#snuffleupagus)
- Became better at snowboarding.
- Helped with the deployment of a new Tor node called
	[elenagb](https://nos-oignons.net/Actualit%C3%A9s/20181209-lancement-elenagb/index.en.html)
	for Nos oignons, we're getting closer of being responsible for 2% of the exit
	traffic of the whole network.
- Didn't resign from my previous job in 2017 when the CEO of the parent company told me
	that it was acceptable to host [homophobic]( https://www.europe1.fr/societe/savoir-si-mon-fils-est-gay-ce-logiciel-espion-qui-fait-scandale-3417365) [spouseware](https://twitter.com/AmicaleRefuge/status/899675392516255746), and
	that we're not going to kick them out. We've been even called out by [Marlène
	Schiappa](https://twitter.com/MarleneSchiappa/status/899933017224904705), the
	current [Secretary of State of Secretariat of Equality between women and men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women%27s_Rights_(France))
	I finally left this year, for other reasons, but I'm still feeling immensely guilty about this.
- Got a new job in the security team of a **big** company, and moved outside of
	the European Union in a kick-ass flat. I'm already missing the simplicity and
	universality of pensions and healthcare of France. Some of my flatmates
	are native English speakers, so hopefully mine will improve and you'll see less
	grammar mistakes in my articles.
- Wrote a new version of [MAT](https://mat.boum.org) from scratch called
	[MAT2]({filename}/metadata/mat2.md), packaged in [Debian](https://packages.debian.org/buster/mat2),
	but also available in [ArchLinux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mat2/),
	[fedora](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/atenart/mat2/), [gentoo](https://github.com/MeisterP/torbrowser-overlay), …
- Bumped into someone after a conference at a train station that complimented
	me on my blog after seeing my nickname on my badge. Apparently,
	people are actually reading my little corner of the web, yay!
- Contributed a lot to [Wappalyzer](https://github.com/AliasIO/wappalyzer/graphs/contributors).

2018 was *interesting*, I do hope that 2019 will be more cheerful.