Today I imported posts I’d written for the Stack Overflow blog onto my blog. Most of them are end-of-year review posts so I’ve been thinking about how that job changed from how it started.1 By the time I left Stack Overflow, it was clear the company had experienced mission creep and “[helping] coders help each other become better coders by sharing their knowledge with one another” was no longer the top priority. In the new year I will start work at OpenSSL, which has a very clear miss...
