Jeff Makes Software

Well, despite getting some leads on who to contact after my previous post, Facebook has otherwise ignored me. I even sent a message Mark Z. just for fun, and he (or someone who monitors his account) wrote back and indicated he would pass along the info to the right people.

Following my lay-off over the summer from Insurance.com, I've been around quite a bit doing contract work and other sub-optimal things. Now I'm finally in what I hope is a solid job with an online marketing agency that also does app dev. As the company's technical architect, I'm not writing as much code myself as I have previously, but I do get to see a lot of stuff inherited from other places.

I just happened to stumble on a pretty serious flaw in their chat app, to the extent that I wouldn't be comfortable using it on a public network. I feel like I should do the right thing and tell them about it, but they lack contact information in a fairly enormous way. I assume the suggestion box just goes into a black hole somewhere.

I checked to see how CoasterBuzz's search index was going today, and was pretty shocked to see that it now as about 15 million rows. Can't say that I've personally written anything that generated that much data on its own before.

Last week I started a new job in an architecture role with a small company that does mostly marketing Web sites for some brands you absolutely know. I'm not sure yet if I should say who they are because I don't want to presume to speak for them in any way. Regardless, I've been looking for a position like this for a very long time.

I have a real love-hate thing with Jason Calacanis. His solution to our woes is that we all work more. For what, I don't even know. Sometimes I think he's a smart guy with the right view on the world, other times I think he's someone who got lucky in the right place at the right time. This is one of those times I think he's got it wrong.

I openly admit that perhaps I'm not the best blogger when it comes to technology, because I have a very skeptical "why should I care about this" attitude toward everything new. And specifically for programming, because I'm not very computer science oriented.