What I'm doing now.

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one too.)

I used to say "when I turn 30 I'll get a boring job and stop chasing the small company gets highly profitable dream". I turn 40 this year and I still can't seem to shake it. Things like wanting to maximise famility time means a slight change in what gigs I take, but not by much.

I'm still working on small teams, this seems to be the type of environment where I can deliver maximum value (being involved in the whole process, being very responsible). Though largely as a contractor and doing side projects that aim to hit the high-profitability escape velocity.

For 10 years now I've focused my "day job" efforts on Laravel (PHP) and Vue (TypeScript). They're great platforms and I enjoy the productivity and predictability of sticking with a tech stack. I do a lot of side-gig work in it as well when it makes sense, though some short detours into C# for Unity and misc projects have been quite enjoyable.

Projects

• I've been running the ZATech Slack community for almost 10 years now (since 2015) and it's become quite a big "internet third space" for the local community.
• Recently (finally) launched Sboj.dev which is a reverse job board for, it's going to be a slow burner but I'm excited to chip away at all the little things involved in having it gain traction.
• Slowly but surely I'm tinkering with a game idea I've had in the back of my mind for ages, essentially a turn based Counter Strike. I love the thought that often people think they have the best strategies and if players on the team would just execute them correctly they'd definitely win. So wouldn't it be great if there was a way to give a bunch of orders and see them executed?