by Codyssia | Feb 15, 2023 | tech career development
Last summer, after committing to a new city and a mortgage, I decided that it was time to move from freelancing/contract work to full-time employment as a software engineer. But I discovered that despite many years of web site/app development experience, I was not...
by Codyssia | Jul 21, 2022 | travel
There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in. ― Conrad Hilton Two weeks after I drove from Austin back to Colorado,...
by Codyssia | May 19, 2022 | conferences
In February, I was pleased to be invited to give a talk with the title “Digital Nomadding in the Time of COVID” at the 2022 Laracon. You can watch the full talk below (and then hop around if you want to hear other people sharing great information about...
by Codyssia | Mar 27, 2022 | conferences
In November of last year, I learned that a talk that a colleague and I had submitted to the SXSW conference had been accepted and we would be on the agenda for the March 2022 event. Our track was “2050” and our talk would be “Jedi Tech: A look back...
by Codyssia | Mar 10, 2022 | travel
“The Vegas of the Middle East” I was supposed to go see a friend in Oman but unfortunately she got Covid and I was out of time to reschedule. So I tacked a few extra days onto Dubai. This turned out to be a wise decision, as it was a city of huge...
