Take your time...

Its nice to have a mechanism to somewhat look at a snapshot of myself from a year a go or so and measure how stupid (or not) I was in what I was thinking or intending to do at the time. Until I devise a form of time travel, I won't get a more accurate luxury. The only thing I can reflect on is the fact that, when you think you have a handle of thing and when you feel you've achieved maximum control over your affairs, life comes up and throws a virtual wrench at your finely tuned engine. Someone will die, something will get damaged, you will get fired, you'll fall ill, your car will break down, or in my case, you'll face an extinction level event in the form of an atmospheric phenomenon that will threaten to destroy everything you've worked for. Last year after a consistent streak of success, the place I live got hit by a Cat 5 hurricane that virtually decimated my and everyone else livelihood. Fortunately after 6 months of the hardships that come with having no ...

Surprisingly this is my second post this year. So I guess things are well enough that can I take some time to look back and flush thoughts on this canvas. I expect this to be a very incoherent, drunken post. Employment is fading away. While I still work under a paid position in a modest software outfit, the way I fulfill my duties has changed drastically. I don't have to be in an office. I don't have to count hours. Most of the time I can choose when I where I work, unless a matter of some importance requires my presence. Realistically, I have achieved what is described in the 4 Hour Workweek book as location independence. Granted, I'm sure this is still in a test tube phase, at least for them. For me, I already know that I can do anything I have to do that has to do with them from anywhere. For a few years know, I have been engaged in a path towards entrepreneurship. For employment, the writing was on the wall. It was going to be a dead end. I hit a ceiling. I peaked. ...

The industry in its current state, and is safe to say this about any other professional industry in this current socioeconomic landscape, they want developers that can work the full stack. They want developers that have sufficient understanding of all the layers that compose a fully featured large and scalable internet application. There is a lot of demand for this at the moment. While I prefer to have a well rounded team that I can balance each others strength's and compensate for each others weakness, not every business allows their own technical people to pick this battle especially when budget conscious people (or cheap ass project managers/hr/c-levels) have to say anything about who gets hired and are quick to drown in this fallacy of the rock star developer that does an entire Facebook in his basement for free. I have wrestled many years with the internal conflict of which path is more satisfactory. Do I try to become capable on every single technology I come across or do...

The best thing about posting in April 1 is that I can disavow any correctness, accuracy or intent in this post. No one will be able to reference this post to rub in my face that I have made any outrageous claims or offending remarks about anything I decide to talk about in this carefully crafted letter soup. Now that I have all the privilege and none of the responsibility let us take this minute hour and a half to empty this amassing of thoughts in the cold empty void of the internet. Since its preposterous at this point to expect that there will be another post this year then lets do justice to everything else that has previously been ignored up to this point and to what may approach soon. 2013 was shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Tough I exaggerate. It was mostly just unmemorable after anything that happened beyond what was a good start with the culmination of PAX. To that poor soul that has ever kept track of these historical world altering writings last post I complained, ...

What was supposed to be a 2013 kick off post turned in to a six month "let's leave it for later" drag. But after today and all the super stressful past weeks I think my brain earned a well deserved figurative dump. Maybe this way I'll get it to shut up for a while and stop thinking. About things. All of them. At once. All the time. 2013 was off to a good start. The game received much needed attention and I got some progress done. This was facilitated by the fact that I was on vacation. Much was learned. Yet, that nagging feeling that it wasn't enough, stayed there. Work started and ramped up quickly so any progress that was to be made on the game was halted by after hours exams, deadlines, crunch time, tiredness and general lack of motivation due to unbalanced concerns for my own abilities. More on that later. Luckily by March it was going to be put on time out by something that was the best thing I probably would have done all year. PAX. I'm glad I decided ...

A bold ride for many this past week and back. While you could say I been wasting my time I will promptly craft an argument to convince you (and me) that I haven't. Those that follow Valve's magnificently crafted online hat simulator, Team Fortress 2, know that it has been a busy week. For those that prefer to entertain themselves with Jersey Shore and Paris Hilton, this last week has been as unremarkable and empty as it always has been in their lives but I'll briefly try to explain what is all this so that there may be hope yet for these lost souls. Again I rip off wikipedia and: Team Fortress 2 (commonly abbreviated as TF2 ) is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter (FPS) multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation . Valve, in their continued effort to sell you many hats and keys, has released a new game mode called Mann Vs. Machine. Ususaly these things go smoothly but for some reason the availability of servers that people could play this new ...