Kthxbai Y!
So today is my last day working cleaning my desk at Yahoo!
I feel both really happy since I asked to leave, and at the same time very disappointed. Yahoo! is a company for which I’d be happy to work for for a very long time, but right now my priorities, where I want to take my professional life and what I want to do with my time are just not aligned with the company’s plans.
I don’t have any regret at all, it has been an experience that I would recommend to anyone. I got to work with many talented and just all round great guys, learnt a lot and had more good times than I can remember. To all those I shared the office with: thank you very much, you’ve made my life in London much better than I could imagine when I moved here almost two years ago.
I will now stay in London for a few more months before probably moving on to France at some point next year. This is the perfect opportunity to concentrate on doing what I really like, playing with the technology I find the most appropriate for what I want to do and make progress (finally) on a handful of side projects (including this site and the software powering it).
So I’m disappointed I’m not staying at Yahoo! to do cool stuff but I’m also happy. I really believe change in my life is a good thing and I can only learn from all these experiences.
On a more technical level I’ll keep doing web stuff of course, write a lot more Python, put out Django based sites, and play with many APIs. First thing will be Last.fm’s hackday, for which I have a neat little idea :)