Hello! Apologies for the radio silence. It’s been a strange, uh (sweats, checks date of previous blog post) 14 months! I have updates regarding my employment status and OSS releases. Plus! Extremely mediocre section-title wordplay.
Bought some fancy dice on a whim recently, and wanted to share the photos / descriptions. Figured this would work marginally better as a blog post instead of Mastodon posts.
Don’t let the title scare you; I’m not going anywhere in particular. But the last ~year has seen a couple of big changes that I wanted to briefly share.
I’ve been looking to upgrade my old, boring internal-combustion car to a fancy, shiny battery-electric vehicle for about a year. The other day, I finally got to test drive one - a Polestar 2. It was great! And I ended up putting a deposit down the very next day.
I’ve turned off Disqus comments on this site. There’s not usually enough feedback to be worth the extra page/cognitive load. My inbox is always open!
Some quick updates on my personal status and whereabouts for Q1 2019!
The last couple months, I’ve been on the job market; my previous employer, mLab, was acquired by MongoDB and there wasn’t a good role for a full-time Pythonista with my particular open source baggage on the other side of that transition.
mLab was a great place to work and (per my 2016 post) a staunch supporter of my OSS, both re: time on the clock and real-world use cases. Fabric 2 might not have seen the light of day otherwise!
I’ve been absolutely #blessed with a deluge of job leads big and small, far
and wide; the process has been exhausting, but also invaluable both for
connections and gauging the state of the industry. (Actually industries, plural
– not just tech, but finance, healthcare, rocketry and more!)
As of today, I’ve accepted an offer to join a high-frequency trading company called Jump Trading, out of their New York City office. I’ll start in early February.
It’s been brought to my attention that I screwed up the RSS/Atom feed for this site during last year’s redesign - in a couple of ways! Thus, most feed readers haven’t picked up on new posts.
Along with some general site maintenance in preparation for another big announcement (!), I wanted to note that I’ve started a ‘reviews’ section of the site’s static content. Mostly to port over something that had lived in my private vimwiki and that I’d been exporting as a Github gist; content living in a gist always feels dirty to me, especially when I have an ostensibly easy to use website…