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Inspired by Basketofkittens and the overall positive economic climate I accidentally a Porsche (991.2 4s):

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Got a months time in it until i winter park it.

Constantine sequel announced, Reeves returning in lead role.

https://deadline.com/2022/09/constantine-sequel-keanu-reeves-francis-lawrence-warner-bros-dc-akiva-goldsman-scripting-producing-bad-robot-jj-abrams-hannah-minghella-1235121127/

//////// DEV DUMP Career Update Edition™

I didn’t really post about this when it happened, but the last startup I was at closed their doors in May and let go of most of the staff in March. As part of the executive team (I was VPE for ~2 years), I felt a certain amount of shared responsibility for this failure and letting my team go was one of the suckiest days of my career. Still, we went out gracefully and early, with enough cash in the bank to give everyone a healthy severance. Every single person on my team found a new role within a month, some even within a week.

For myself, I deliberately took some time off, focused on hobbies, started studying for the AWS SAA certificate, and a few other things. That said, I started casually interviewing in April and slowly ramped up over time. I found a pre-seed startup that was just a founder and industry advisor, and they were looking for a head of technology to lone-wolf implement a bunch of stuff. The pay was shit but I didn’t have anything else going on so I took it on a contract basis just for the experience of being an IC again (I haven’t been a dedicated IC in close to 10 years) and honestly, to help them out. It was a good experience and I managed to dust off my dev chops - even implemented an entire RBAC system with Cognito-backed authentication and user registration and audit logging in just four days (while at the same time introducing migrations, master data seeding, and test fixtures). Still, being deep in a technical implementation is enjoyable, but no longer where I’m happiest.

Fortunately, I kept interviewing and yesterday was my first day as VP of Eng for another company. Pay and profit sharing is fantastic, they’re obviously cool with my remote location, it’s really innovative product and market area, and the dev team needs growth and coaching and culture development, with a handful of technological challenges to boot - exactly what I’m good at. Very happy action roommate today. I think I can comfortably say I’ve moved on from “software engineer” to “IT executive” and it feels good to be comfortable with that.

How are your careers going? Any big changes? What tech are people finding exciting these days?

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The peegies in observation of Memorial Day!

Chase: https://i.imgur.com/yduRrcQ.jpg
Tony Swiftbottom: https://i.imgur.com/OGpAcxV.jpg
Steve Carrotlord: https://i.imgur.com/wrKGDdc.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TlXYVec.mp4

I finished my custom loop! Had to make some changes to what I had yesterday due to some of the 90 degree fittings being problematic.

https://i.imgur.com/XRBR8mL.jpg

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I've been working with UE5 since it came out of Early Access last year, and this week I'll be on the Inside Unreal stream talking about my game. So that should be pretty cool! Especially since UE5 just officially released today!

It's this Thursday at 2pm EST.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/inside-unreal-developing-in-ue5/512903

If any of you are curious about UE5, ask away. It's been awesome to work with.

Just out here seeing Björk

https://i.imgur.com/3Wtytnv.jpg

If I can boast a bit more in a subthread (I've always kept this quiet before) he's always been ridiculously smart.

- He could count to 10 at 18 months (before he could talk ... he'd arrange blocks in patterns).
- He taught himself to read and write when he was two.
- At three he could write out a complete times table up to 10 x 10, and not from memory, he'd calculate all the numbers in his head.
- Just after his fourth birthday he entered nursery school. The teacher took me aside a week later and said she'd measured him at a reading age of 9.
- He's got the top mark in every public exam he's ever taken, so 13 GCSEs at grade 9, four AS levels at grade A, four A levels at A*, all without apparently applying himself.

Anyway, he's amazing and I'm a bit teary (discreetly, except here).