After 14 years, 10 at Facebook and another 4 at Meta, I am no longer a Facebook/Meta employee and it’s time to move on. And it’s not related to performance or layoffs.

You know those typical LinkedIn posts about “amazing journeys” with “rocket ships” and all that? Yeah, I’m not going there! There have definitely been ups and downs along the way, but that’s normal.

For the last 25 years, I’ve pretty much gone straight from one job to another. The one real break I took was an incredible four-week honeymoon in Australia before starting at Facebook—totally worth delaying my start date!

I have decided to retire my old wordpress blog and set up a statically generated site using hugo.

Hugo is pretty nice :) It is super fast, I don’t have to setup a LAMP stack with webserver, mysql database and PHP. It is much more secure and I don’t have to worry about hosting things on my DigitalOcean VPS and worry about hacking attack etc. In fact, I have even destroyed my VPS and save some money.