There's a bit of accuracy in this ValleyWag story, in that I'm leaving SixApart. But the reasons ValleyWag cites for me leaving aren't so accurate.

Yes, I'm bored, but that boredom isn't SixApart's fault. I've been doing this whole LiveJournal thing for about 9 years now. Even though I haven't been working on LiveJournal itself for perhaps a year or more now, people still think I am, and it's probably time to distance myself from it and move on... I just need a change. LiveJournal's in good hands -- I'm not worried about it. I haven't touched the code or the servers in ages, so I know it's fine.

I've really enjoyed working with everybody at SixApart, especially on public projects like MogileFS, Perlbal, OpenID, djabberd, Gearman, TheSchwartz, etc. But all that stuff basically just works now^[1], solving the problems they were meant to solve, and I find myself out of new things to work on.

Since I've always been just kinda been a floater engineer at SixApart, never really part of (or head of) a group, I just feel a bit detached now without something obviously broken consuming all of my time & attention. There are plenty of other groups at SixApart having fun working on other problems, so I could join one of those groups, but I think this is just a good point in my life to change directions a bit.

My apologies that there's not more drama to this whole story. :)

[1] Yes, things can always be better. But relatively good, compared to the past.

[	Tags	|	livejournal, work	]
[	Current Mood	|	sad	]

czircon

LiveJournal is really going to shit lately. The "sponsored communities" are bad enough; now we have to put up with ads on the front page as well? And not just banner ads, but ads with Flash and fake forms to fill out because they think it's more likely to trick you into clicking on it? Ugh. Unfortunately I'm pretty much stuck here.

  1  AU
  2  . New South Wales
  3  . . Sydney
  4  . Victoria
  5  . . Melbourne
  6  DE
  7  PH
  8  RU
  9  . Moscow
 10  . Saint Petersburg
 11  UA
 12  . Kiev
 13  UK
 14  . England
 15  . . London
 16  . Northern Ireland
 17  . Scotland
 18  . Wales
 19  US
 20  . CA
 21  . . Bay Area
 22  . . . North Bay
 23  . . . . Marin
 24  . . . . . Sausalito
 25  . . . . . Tiburon
 26  . . . . Napa
 27  . . . . Solano
 28  . . . . Sonoma
 29  . . . San Francisco
 30  . OR
 31  . . Portland Metro Area
 32  . . . Beaverton
 33  . . . Portland
 34  . WA
 35  . . Seattle

Side story: my car recently recommended I drive like 3 times as far because its stupid navigation can only find the nearest junkfood restaurants as-the-crow-flies and the location 9 miles north (along my direction of travel) was farther than the 8 miles as-the-crow-flies which actually was 5.5 miles north, 5.5 miles east (out of the way), eat, 5.5 west (back to free way). So 11 miles wasted. Yay quadtree!

(don't worry, the humans won and belayed the computer's order)