Charlton's Blog

What This Is

This section contains a number of subheadings where I can archive and organize the various things I’m studying/working on from a month-to-month basis. It’s essentially a long list of tersely formatted status updates that I collect and maintain along with some commentary.

Reading…

Books:

• Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - G. Pascal Zachary. (0029356717)
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami. (978-0-307-59331-3)

Online:

• Patrick McKenzie - Work Less, Get More Done: Analytics For Maximizing Productivity

Founding…

Packfiles 📦

Charlton & Rob, founders of Packfiles.

I’m excited to introduce Packfiles, a company I’m building with my co-founder Robert Bremer.

Read more about it in my dedicated post, and in the Tampa Bay Business Journal (archive).

Developing…

Tampa Devs

I’ve been working with Tampa Devs’ first-ever intern to bring a host of new features to Tampa Devs Talent, our nonprofit SaaS hiring platform.

Changelog:

• Special profile badges for CodeBoxx students (#26)
• An evolved invisiblization feature to manage spam/abuse (#114)
• Improvements to the Business customer onboarding flow, requiring them to sign the hiring agreement before accessing developer profiles (#102)
• Added the Events API next event widget to the homepage (#83)
• Squashed a bug regarding developer profile sharing (#82)
• Migrated the CDN for user uploaded content (profile photos, banner images, hiring agreements) to a new S3 bucket behind Cloudflare’s cache (#79)
• Added a link to the status page to the site footer, Business profiles now display customer contact information, plus a Developer-facing reminder about celebration packages (#72)
• New Developer specialty badges, shown on Developer profiles and searchable (#71)
• New Progressively enhanced combobox for Developer specialty search (#70)
• New 90 day placement fee warranty (#61)
• Add a phone number field to Business profiles (#44)
• Businesses must provide a phone number in their profile before sending cold messages to Developers (#46)
• Rake task to sync user account information to Tampa Devs’ Sendgrid database (#40)
• New annual Business subscription, priced at $999/year (#116)

Aside from these new features, we’ve also done a lot of work on updating dependencies, fixing bugs, and improving the overall state of the platform.

Upcoming features:

• All-new functionality that will allow Businesses to post and advertise open roles (#30 - Job Posts)

Listening…

• See last.fm.

Playing…

• Persona 3 Reload.