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December 2020 Retrospective
This is a personal review of December 2020. Last month's review can be found here
What I did
In December, I wrote an article about text recognition (OCR) using Firebase ML for the Firebase Advent Calendar 2020.
Since libraries are provided for iOS/Android, it was very easy to use from a mobile app. Firebase ML's character recognition is a paid service because it uses the GCP cloud API; however, since many other on-device character recognition functions often do not support Japanese, this seems useful when implementing Japanese-compatible OCR.
Introduction to the Community I Joined
In May of last year, I joined a community called "Engineers and Life" (エンジニアと人生), which was launched by an iOS engineer, Mr. Tsutsumi.
It is a comfortable community where members create their own personal "times" channels on the community Slack, and interactions between members are born from the conversations there. The topics are not limited to iOS but cover a wide range, including Flutter, mobile, web frontend, work, money (taxes), life, and parenting, in a very casual atmosphere.
In such an environment, I am daily inspired by seeing people with extensive experience in work and careers, as well as those who are actively sharing technical knowledge.
Reflections
In 2020, I was able to take on small challenges, such as participating in the community and taking an interest in machine learning.
I want to continue sharing technical information and challenge myself with new things in 2021.
Discussion