I’ve been an absentee landlord.
Letting this site languish. My bad.
So, update time! I’m unemployed! But it’s okay! For now!
It’s a trope when people in long-term relationships say they could never survive the dating landscape were they to be suddenly single again, and the job hunting landscape seems a lot like that, at least for someone who’d been in the same steady full-time job for 8 years. Tough sledding for the dumped.
Anyway, the literal day after, I essentially woke up with an idea for a project that I could use to both occupy my time, and put on my resumé, since essentially everything I have worked on for the last 8 years is locked in a private GitHub repo, and would only be visible to someone who was a customer of my former employer. NOT GREAT BOB DOT GIF. I’m not going to go into too much detail, not like I think you’re going to steal my idea, but it’s essentially a chat app. I’m starting with a web interface, since that’s what I know best, but I’m also hoping to spin up a mobile (iOS) app to see if I can flex some learning muscles. I’ve got a working prototype with a remote database and WebSocket server running!
Harry and Bob are chatting
This proves out that my server-side code works, so my next step is to start working on the iOS client. This might take a little longer, but in this new era of “vibe coding”, I for one appreciate our new AI overlords and look forward to working with Chatty G to write some code. What could possibly go wrong!