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A year at OrgPad.com as a software developer, infrastructure engineer and late co-founder

Wow, it has been more than a year already. I started at OrgPad at the end of September 2020. In the evenings and on weekends, since about March 2020, I helped with the infrastructure of OrgPad. E.g. migrating from Heroku to a DigitalOcean VPS "Droplet". Together with Pavel, we implemented the screenshot server with Puppeteer. I did some work on backups and more. I overhauled the infrastructure quite a bit in late 2020, when we migrated most of the services to Hetzner. Since then, OrgPad should work completely over IPv6 as well. (I gave two talks about this during IPv6 Day 2020 and 2021).
I have learned lots of Clojure and quite a bit of ClojureScript too. I feel like for the first time in my life I have done serious work with PostgreSQL (or any database for that matter). My Ansible skills became a lot better too. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. I came to realize perhaps a bit too much about our education system, society in general and running a business to some degree. There is so much more to explore and it really was the best thing that could happen to me to join OrgPad fully.