Welcome back after the summer break! CJ and Colin get caught up after a summer of adventure and... new job announcements!
- CJ update
- Tahoe Time / Family Time
- E-Bike with Dad
- Boat / Plane flight simulator
- Colin update
- Spending time on the coworking space
- Summer camping
- Role reversals and announcement
- We have new jobs!
- Context switching
- Colin: product & engineering → developer relations
- CJ: developer relations → product & engineering
- Fewer guard rails, much less narrow focus, wearing more hats, more autonomy, freedom and responsibility
- CJ is now at Craftwerk
- NextJS
- T3 stack
- MySQL with Planetscale
- Drizzle ORM
- Zod schema validation
- Back office/Admin CRUD app in Rails
- Colin is now at Discord
- Currently onboarding and learning
- Building a Google Calendar app to get fully up to speed on all the areas of the developer experience
- Other happenings: RailsWorld is happening later this year in Amsterdam
- Tickets sold out in 45 minutes
- Speakers announced this week
- Must download calendar app for MacOS folks: Fantastical
