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 title = "being the wandering toolmaker"
 description = "staff engineering at NoRedInk"
 date = 2022-05-01
+updated = 2023-10-13
 
 [extra]
-when = "now"
+when = "past"
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-After being an senior-ish software engineer and a team lead (like a tech lead elsewhere) for five years, I've been working as the first "wandering toolmaker" at [NoRedInk](https://noredink.com).
-In this role, I'm spending about half of my time working on the product (mostly focused on improving life for <abbr title="English Language Arts">ELA</abbr> teachers and their students) and the remainder working on improving tooling and developer experience for the department and company.
+After being an senior-ish software engineer and a team lead (like a tech lead elsewhere) for five years, I was the first "wandering toolmaker" at [NoRedInk](https://noredink.com).
+In this role, I spent about half of my time working on the product (mostly focused on improving life for <abbr title="English Language Arts">ELA</abbr> teachers and their students) and the remainder working on improving tooling and developer experience for the department and company.
 
-So far, I've:
+This included projects like:
 
-- added [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) to our Rails monolith and got almost all (over 95%) of our code to `typed: true` levels of checking.
-- created tools to help our accessibility team educate the company how to make our site more accessible
-- explored alternate build tools like [rbt](@/projects/rbt.md)
-
-I'm currently in the process of converting our JavaScript code (the stuff that we use to start our [Elm](https://elm-lang.org) apps) to [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) and working on [bold](@/projects/bold.md).
+- adding [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) to our Rails monolith and getting almost all (over 95%) of our code to `typed: true` levels of checking.
+- converting all our CoffeeScript code to JavaScript, then to TypeScript, and integrating it with the port-based FFI in Elm.
+- creating tools to help our accessibility team educate the company how to make our site more accessible
+- exploring alternate build tools like [rbt](@/projects/rbt.md)