I was quite late discovering Pinboard; by the looks of things I created my account and paid my first subscription for it in early 2019. Since then I've been a pretty avid user and found it really useful. I've even written a couple of clients for it (one for Emacs and one for the terminal). During that time it's had its fair share of hiccups and outages, but on the whole I've found it a stable and useful service. The service does have its detractors, and concerns over its long-term stability a...| blog.davep.org
While I have been on the receiving end of redundancy once before, that was after 21 years of service at a company that, while it was in part about software development, I would never have called it a "tech" company. So, as of today, I can finally say that the "tech layoffs" came for me and I'm one of 67% of employees being let go from a tech startup. Achievement unlocked, I guess? To be clear: I'm not annoyed about this, I'm not even shocked about this; I planned for this from the off and rea...| blog.davep.org