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I am elated to announce that as of Monday I will be joining Pivotal Labs!

If you don’t know, Pivotal Labs is an elite ninja squad of developers, trained in the art of Ekusupidō (also known as Extreme Programming). Pivotal, based in San Francisco, is growing their new(-ish) NYC office, and I’m proud to be joining the wonderful group of Pivots who work there.

Yesterday was my last day at drop.io. I worked there for just over a year, and it has been a wild and hugely valuable experience. When I arrived at drop.io, fresh out of college, I really didn’t know what I was doing. I thought I knew what I was doing, but I didn’t. A year later, I know what it’s like to accidentally bring down a popular website and rush out a fix. I know what it’s like to be clever with my code and confuse the hell out of my coworkers. Most importantly, now I can (usually) recognize when I’m about to do something stupid, and decide not to.

I owe drop.io a huge thanks. Thanks for taking on someone with so little experience, and thanks for letting me experiment while I found my dev-legs.

Yesterday, the team threw a little sendoff party for me. There was pizza, beer, and stories aplenty. Then Mike and Pete scurried off. When they came back, they were holding these:

I’m bowled over, guys. That is the best present ever. Though, as someone pointed out, it raises the question: can you wear a shirt with your own face on it?

A big thank-you to everyone at drop.io. I’ll see you on Twitter, I’ll see you on Foursquare, and hopefully I’ll see you at an upcoming Wet Sox game.

(Apologies if this post was a little inside whiffleball.)