On January 1, 2006, I flew to California to join Flock. I left behind many friends but convinced a few to join me. I've spent time at Flock, Commerce.net and most recently at DanceJam/cliKball. I've learned a lot diving into those projects, but it has always been bitter-sweet as it came at the expense of personal projects.
As of February 1, 2009, I've took the plunge and asked for a pay cut and less hours. I still work every day, but a little less each day, which gives me time to spend on userscripts.org, book burro, and other projects.
I'm determined to make massive progress, and have a goal of shipping every day (don't break the chain!).
So far this month I've:
- Spent time every day improving the Book Burro extension, preparing for adding it to addons.mozilla.org
- Many improvements to Userscripts.org (last year had 54M page views, Janruary already broke 7M)
- Stood in for then rewrote @amazon on twitter. (about to break 2000 followers)
- Unwrote my custom appengine comment system, porting to Disqus
- Converted @marklise to git/github so I can get him to help me with searchy
- Worked with Yosh on fixing many small bugs in Taboo
- Published a prototype of New Relic application health as a Firefox statusbar
My biggest challenge is going to be creating a "not-todo-list". I need to find a balance between small one off hacks/projects and projects that have grown up and demand time.
Ok, time to implement email notifications for userscripts :)
