It's all change here at @mavnn land: as of last week, we've signed a full time, indefinite contract with NoRedInk to provide development services.

Given that we're a two person company, and only one of us is a developer, that means we won't be taking on any other work for the foreseeable future!

So, what's going on, why, and what does it mean for you?

Why?

The reasons come on a few levels, but they basically boil down to:

• I think NoRedInk are doing something really worthwhile, and they really understand remote teams
• My family may need to move on fairly short notice at some point (cough Brexit cough) and neither on-site work nor short term contracts give much security in that context

There are other reasons, and not necessarily minor ones:

• They have an in-depth interview process which has convinced me I can work with the engineers there
• They're using Elm on the front end, which I really like the look of
• They're investing in tooling and support

I'm only just getting started with them (last week they had a 3 day retreat I was able to join them for, this week I'm at NDC Oslo), but so far I can tell you that they seem to be a great bunch of human beings with a clear, concrete, targeted plan on how to make (one aspect of) the world better. I can get behind that.

What does it mean for you?

Well, basically it means that @mavnn ltd will no longer be running on site training or ticketed training events, and we won't be available for bespoke development. It also means that I'll be a lot less active in the F# community; I have 3 new programming languages to learn and become productive with in fairly short order.

Having said that, you can probably expect some cross-ecosystem pollination talks at conferences in the future!

Anyway: enough about me. I now return you to your regular schedule of techy bloginess.