Status Update
Hello again.
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:
Founding…
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.