Wrapping up 2022

It’s the time of the year.

As we are approaching the very end of 2022, I wanted to take this little quiet time to reflect — on 2022, what a year!

Personally, it’s fulfilling:

• Read 300 ish books this year — mostly novels 😃;
• Learned the basics of Golang;
• Finished my first Python project in production;
• Transitioned me into a wholly new role, for the first time in my 20 years career;
• Travelled to 4 countries shortly after the world started re-opening.

And, of course, the not-so-bright-siders:

• Far from my home town for 4 years – still counting;
• Devastated and helpless by the turmoil that happened in Apr and the present, in my home town.

We have seen most probably the historical year of man-made disasters – from The war in Ukraine, humanitarian tragedies in China, sky-rocketing inflation worldwide, the energy crisis in the EU, the lasting pandemic and many many more…

However, there are hopes that arise – they always do. As we humans, tended to be resilient, solidarity and determined – but only when there is a crisis or disaster.

That keeps me wondering:

When can humans learn from that and behave when the days are normal?

Professionally, I wrote 17 articles this year – 7 on Medium.com, and another 10 on JumpCloud Community:

Tags: Scripting, Templating, and automation

Windows MDT as code — Part 2

Play With A Portable Active Directory Environment On AWS

Auto Provisioning Windows Devices with JumpCloud

Remove AD bind on MacOS via JumpCloud cmd

The magical command trigger webhook

[PowerShell] Add the systems to a system group depends on where they are (geo location)

[Python] Add the systems to a system group depends on where they are (geo location)

[PowerShell] Get the last user activities from Directory Insights

Building a nested JSON body in PowerShell - making a PUT call to JC's policy API

Managing Windows MDM Policies (Policy CSP) in JC CMD

Tags: Best Practises, and solutions

Integrate OpenVPN with JumpCloud’s RADIUS-as-a-Service

Python — Packing the Keyword Arguments Into a Variable

Integrate JumpCloud LDAP-as-a-Service with Cisco ISE

“zsh compinit: insecure files” Prompt on oh-my-zsh

Use JC SSO mandating Google Work Space user's password - on specific GWS OU(s) and Groups

Add a Search shortcut for Support KBs in Chrome

Leverage Windows Delivery Optimisation for Windows Update with Patch mgmt policy

That seems a lot, but can be more. 😉

Looking out to 2023 as the time marches towards, pessimistic sentiments are widely expressed in almost every aspect, me too.

But, I would stay optimistic — there is always hope, silver lining and opportunities around the corner waiting to be uncovered. This is how humanity evolves, eventually. I won’t stop being better — 1% every day 😄.

So, here is a quick note to the future me:

Stay calm, and keep learning.

Merry Xmas, and happy holidays everyone!