Randomness
March 28, 2024
As of today, it has been 573 days since my last post to this blog. Prior to this period, the most I had ever gone without posting here was a few months, going all the way back to 2005. I have literally never gone that long without blogging in my entire life, dating all the way back to my LiveJournal and OpenDiary days. More than a year and a half has elapsed. And it would be easy for me to say that my job was taking up all of my time, but that is only a fraction of what was actually going on.
As it turns out, a lot can change in a year and a half. A whole, whole lot.
But I suppose we can start with one very obvious one.
My name changed!
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Randomness
September 2, 2022
It’s amazing how quickly time can fly when you are having fun.
Almost fifteen years ago I started working at DealNews as a Junior Developer. I was in my mid 20s, less than two years out of Auburn. I even remember it was mid November because I left my previous job on a
Wednesday, went to the Auburn-Georgia Game,
then started at DealNews the following Monday. It was just before Black Friday
even. I still even remember what that first day was like: I didn’t have SVN
access yet and I had to email my code to my boss!
To give you an idea of how long ago this was: when I was hired on at DealNews,
I announced it to my friends on my MySpace page and my LiveJournal blog.
Neither of which exist anymore.
Fifteen years is a long time in tech, where changing jobs rapidly is the
norm and staying in a position for three years can be seen as a serious
commitment to a company. But the only constant in the universe is change. Which
is why it is definitely very bittersweet for me to announce that I will be
leaving DealNews on September 16, 2022.
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