01:18 <vilhalmer> I am digging through an old log from 2013

01:18 <vilhalmer> I miss purr

01:18 <vilhalmer> purr was a good bot

01:19 <ec> purr was good and pur(r)e

01:19 <ec> hey vilhalmer we were just taking about you 🤣

01:19 <vilhalmer> o/

01:19 <ec> i forget why but micah mentioned you at dinner

01:20 <vilhalmer> hi micah

01:23 <vilhalmer> 2013 seems like six thousand years ago, my god

01:23 <vilhalmer> remember when I was writing an app

01:23 <ec> nope not at all

01:23 <ec> what u doin now

01:24 <vilhalmer> qa on network products by day

01:24 <vilhalmer> accidental qa on network products by night

01:24 <vilhalmer> how have you been

01:29 <ec> extremely good tbh

01:30 <ec> i completely accidentally stumbled into my dream job. i start tomorrow

01:30 <ec> to boot, they’re paying me more money than I can fathom what to do with

03:22 <ljharb> ec: what is it?

11:20 <ec> ljharb: i swear i told you?

11:21 <ec> i’m building a programming language to make programming more accessible to young folk of all backgrounds

11:21 <ec> wait rephrase: i’m *being paid to* build a programming language to …

14:46 <gkatsev> ec is being paid to make a language, do pigs fly?

14:46 <gkatsev> :P

14:46 <jfhbrook> they do now!

14:46 <gkatsev> congrats, btw

14:47 <jfhbrook> yeah no that's def a good thing, was tbh worried ec was doomed to wander the earth

14:47 <jfhbrook> oh I wrote non-trivial go this weekend!

14:48 <jfhbrook> I hit up vimeo about a microservices engineer position, they have a massive php app they wanna break out into go services and they were like, I bet you can't write a load balancer in go

14:48 <jfhbrook> and I was like, challenge accepted

14:48 <jfhbrook> so uh, yeah, I wrote a not great load balancer in go this weekend

14:49 <jfhbrook> it's a small language with juuuuust enough niceties to be decent

14:49 <jfhbrook> despite all of its flaws warts and missing features

14:50 <jfhbrook> I think I'm gonna work for someone else that uses go though, their recruiter was not all that pumped and it sounds like the interesting bits are already spun out, this would be breaking up their CMS

14:50 <jfhbrook> which, like

14:50 <jfhbrook> I've worked on enough CMSs

15:05 <ljharb> ec: i don’t recall if you did or not, but that’s cool

15:19 <ec> jfhbrook: 🤣

15:19 <ec> still wandering the earth

15:19 <ec> negotiated up to a ton of work-remotely-while traveling time, in addition to the bullshit “unlimited” vacation days

15:22 <jfhbrook> that's baller