“Start a blog” has been on my todo list for so long, it’s going to leave a gaping void in my life when I check it off.

There are some things I have been wanting to talk about for a while now, in a way that’s less ephemeral than twitter.  Like how the tech industry is terrible at interviewing and hiring, and some ideas for making it slightly less terrible.  Or the appalling proliferation of new ways to bootstrap your infrastructure over the past couple years.  Tips for how to survive when your startup gets acquired.  Stuff like that.

The first thing on the list tho will be a wrap-up of all the talks and articles and shit that I did in 2015, because Caitie did it and it was amazing and inspiring.  <3

This post is basically for me to try and figure out how to use wordpress themes.  But here, just so that it isn’t 100% devoid of content let me state for the record where “@mipsytipsy” comes from.  When I was in school we had an assembly language class where we had to use SPIM to emulate the MIPS R3000 processor.  The class was wretched, but “spimmy” became my irc nick.  During my Everquest years I played an enchanter named Mipsy Tipsy, and now I’m just too lazy to come up with anything new.

A surprising number of people still call me “Spimmy” in real life.  Heh.

photo credit: i don’t remember whose hands these were.  maybe @mosheroperandi?