diff --git a/_posts/2022-08-20-365-gitpods.md b/_posts/2022-08-20-365-gitpods.md index 8d54384..c5334d9 100644 --- a/_posts/2022-08-20-365-gitpods.md +++ b/_posts/2022-08-20-365-gitpods.md @@ -3,25 +3,25 @@ title: "365 'podder days" image: "gitpod-365.jpg" --- -On the 11th of August, 2021, the tab with my email client in my browser changed its title to indicate a new email. This would be an email that would go on to change my life. +On the 11th of August 2021, the tab with my email client in my browser changed its title to indicate a new email. This would be an email that would go on to change my life. This email came from the CEO of Gitpod, Sven Efftinge, with a subject that simply read "Gitpod". It was an invitation to jump on a call with him to talk about a potential career at the company, and when I read it, my heart stopped. Then my heart started beating at about 200BPM and I had to think rationally. I settled on believing Sven is a busy man and had to have mistaken me and was actually wanting to contact someone else[^1]. I couldn't believe I would be able to get an offer from Gitpod, because I have been a really heavy power user of their SaaS offering for the past few months - therefore I was already a hooked superfan, so I needed no convincing for scheduling this initial call. -In my response I spelled Gitpod as "GitPod", which makes me even more surprised that I got the job. +In my response, I spelled Gitpod as "GitPod", which makes me even more surprised that I got the job. I have taken a look at a potential career at Gitpod before, just out of curiosity, since I wished I could one day be able to work there[^2], making this a literal dream come true. If you told me a week before this email came in that I would be working for Gitpod, I'd call you crazy.

Something great is happening 👀

(you’ll see what soon)

— Φlip Tρni🇨🇿 (@filiptronicek) August 17, 2021
-Now that I joined and was officially a part of the company I thought only employed 2000-IQ senior software engineers who re-compile their kernels every Monday. Gitpod turned out to be… way different than expected. One-by-one I started to learn about all of my teammates and discovered that all of them were super-nice, kind, welcoming and supportive people in general. So nice in fact, that I'd for sure have no problem spending a week in Portugal with them[^3]. +Now that I joined and was officially a part of the company I thought only employed 2000-IQ senior software engineers who re-compile their kernels every Monday. Gitpod turned out to be… way different from what I expected. One-by-one I started to learn about all of my teammates and discovered that all of them were super-nice, kind, welcoming and supportive people in general. So nice in fact, that I'd for sure have no problem spending a week in Portugal with them[^3]. -On the 17th of August, it has been exactly a year since I joined and I now believe that being employed can be not boring. Sorry for the Zoomer-ism, but Gitpod is very Git-pog [[1](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pog)] and everyday, I'm more excited to be doing the things I do there, and working on the things I work on. It's true that I get pretty easily excited, but try to excite me for a year straight and that's a tougher challenge. +On the 17th of August, it has been exactly a year since I joined, and I now believe that being employed can be not boring. Sorry for the Zoomer-ism, but Gitpod is very Git-pog [[1](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pog)] and every day, I'm more excited to be doing the things I do there, and working on the things I work on. It's true that I get pretty easily excited, but try to excite me for a year straight and that's a tougher challenge. -I would like to thank so many people from Gitpod for this terrific year that I'd end up copy-pasting our Slack server member list and my lawyer[^4] advised me not to do that. +I would like to thank so many people from Gitpod for this terrific year that I'd end up copy-pasting our Slack server member list, and my lawyer[^4] advised me not to do that. -It's cool to see both myself and Gitpod grow and how different we both were back in August of 2021. Although I do not believe I have made any difference in how Gitpod operates, I think I have left a mark on those who I've interacted with over the last year: albeit negative or positive (I strongly hope that the negatives weren't too frequent :P). +It's cool to see both myself and Gitpod grow and how different we both were back in August 2021. Although I do not believe I have made any difference in how Gitpod operates, I think I have left a mark on those who I've interacted with over the last year: albeit negative or positive (I strongly hope that the negatives weren't too frequent :P). -To summarize: I cannot believe I am where I am currently in my career. A seemingly out-of-the-blue email which turned into so many great things that I could never capture with words and one can only wonder how my life would be without. I am happy where I am and hope I can continue to create great stuff on behalf of this kumquat-colored company in the future. +To summarize: I cannot believe I am where I am currently in my career. A seemingly out-of-the-blue email which turned into so many great things that I could never capture with words, and one can only wonder how my life would be without. I am happy where I am and hope I can continue to create great stuff on behalf of this kumquat-colored company in the future. P.S. Since I work on open-source full time now (I really work on 0 private repos!), you can always find what I'm up to on [my GitHub profile](https://github.com/filiptronicek) (if you find any activity there not work-related, please don't tell on me). @@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ Here's to another year of creating and maintaining valuable open source software [^1]: No joke, this was really what I thought at first. [^2]: I got so scared seeing things like "engineering interview" that I wouldn't dare to ever apply. -[^3]: I may or may not have actually done that and it may or may not have been the best week of my life [[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QQKs3hFnMg)]. +[^3]: I may or may not have actually done that, and it may or may not have been the best week of my life [[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QQKs3hFnMg)]. [^4]: I acknowledge that I do not have a lawyer