Posts tagged “career”

Twenty years of blogging, from sandwich diaries to AWS takedowns, coming out (twice) to becoming American. The blog has outlasted Slashdot, nearly outlasted Twitter, and documented almost my entire adult life. I was right about who I am and what I do. Here's to whatever comes next.

After 8 months of brutal work, late nights and stress, I've launched the new Yahoo! Widgets site with Matt. We rebuilt it from scratch using Symfony, replacing three years of cobbled-together code with something bigger, faster and better in every measurable way. I'm exhausted but proud.

Been working like an American for 10 months straight with zero vacation days, and it shows -- best work of my career. But the deadline is in 6 days and then I'm done. I need a vacation badly.

Dice's fake "rant room" campaign is a perfect example of how not to do user-generated content. Real IT workers wouldn't post their faces online trashing their employers, and they'd know better than to use some obscure video site instead of YouTube.

Spending tomorrow at the US Embassy hoping to score my L-1 visa. Fingers crossed.

Scraping the bottom of the ambition barrel: I want 50 LinkedIn connections.

Heading to San Francisco (Sunnyvale, really) for handover work following my department's shutdown. I'll be there from the 27th through November 2nd, including Halloween. If you're in the area, get in touch!

Got a job. Details coming.

Lost my dream job Monday, had a wisdom tooth pulled today. Sitting here jobless, bleeding, unable to eat. It can only get better from here.

I "do the web": I surf it, build on it, theorize about it. Blogs, CMS, e-commerce, web architecture -- it's basically my whole life. I like it enough that that doesn't even seem sad to me anymore.

Celebrating Mikey's new law job and two consecutive 6pm finishes after a month of crunch. We just launched Yahoo! Tones in the UK and Germany. Also: dentist tomorrow for the first stage of my bionic molar.

I saw a young, privileged couple on the tube this morning and immediately loathed them. Not for their wealth, but for their effortless, inherited confidence: those intangible "soft skills" that propel mediocre people past better-qualified ones. I hate them most because I worry I might be one of them.

Really enjoying my new job at Yahoo! The team is great, the work is genuinely interesting, and a long boozy leaving do revealed nobody said anything homophobic all night, which is reassuring since I still haven't figured out how to come out at work.

First day at Yahoo wasn't bad. The scale is staggering: patch PHP, build Apache modules, get machines just by asking. The resources make you feel like anything is possible. Also, find me on Yahoo Messenger.

Starting my new job at Yahoo tomorrow and I'm absolutely terrified. Wish me luck!

I got a job at Yahoo. Here's the whole story, in probably more detail than you need, including the questionnaire they made me fill out, my answers, and the nail-biting wait for an offer. Short version: it worked out, and I'm thrilled.

Four days left at my old job, and my new boss has already found this blog. Can't say where I'm going yet, but it's big and exciting. Also heading to the Popstarz reopening to pay proper respects to Simon.

I've got a new job! I've handed in my notice at Boltblue but can't reveal where I'm heading yet. You've got 30 days to guess. Also posted the last of my NYC photos, if you're not already tired of them.

Being a web developer in 2005 fills me with smug satisfaction, wonder, and pure joy. The web is becoming mundane and everyday -- and that's a triumph. The exciting times are just beginning, and I have a proposal about how the next phase will unfold. Big dreams, but so was the Internet.

My life only rates 12A, I work in ringtones instead of AI, and my biggest thrill is assembling a bedside table. Volunteers needed to fix at least one of these problems.

I get paid to do work I genuinely love. Life is good. Also, my old room is up for grabs and my new living situation is shaping up to be brilliant.

I've got a new job at boltblue, starting 8th June! I was miserable at my last place and very glad to be leaving. Buy some ringtones and logos from my new employer. Go on.

Sometimes I step back and think: I'm literally making my brain run in a machine. Five terminals, 24 emacs buffers, four languages, and it all works. Coding is weird and wonderful and I love it. Am I alone in occasionally thinking "wow, this is so cool"?

Last day at IBM Hursley, back to Warwick! Also: possible life on Venus (just microbes, but still), everything we know is wrong, and the Weekly World News has infiltrated Al-Qaeda. Quite a day.

Dreading graduating right into a recession, which means I'll probably have no choice but to do a PhD and wait it out.

GagPipe aggregates satirical websites so you don't have to choose just one. Also, Simon Miles may have just helped me figure out what to do with my life.

First day at the new job, but my laptop's being set up so I've got nothing to do but blog. Too early to say much about the job yet, but it looks promising.

Exams done, now job hunting. Possibly have an interview Tuesday. Found 1000+ emails waiting for me. Need money, food is good. God bless Jobserve.