Very interested in the parsing parts for file-format validation. I used to use 010 editor and had written several parsers for various files but I no longer have a license for that but wish I had a way to interpret files to check against a standard like this offers. Thanks for sharing!
Reminds me of the unsung hero who was selflessly patching and fixing AOE2 for many many years before the AOE2 HD stuff on steam. These people are awesome.
Would love to chat with someone about some of the teams needs as I spent about 7 years in the medical imaging space (specifically cloud enablement of DICOM viewers and tools). I'm not specifically on the market but would at least love to make a connection in case my skills would be a good fit for the team. Any opportunity for us to connect and discuss at some point?
Thanks - feel free to reach out if you have any lessons learned you think we should know about! Being a student of history is important for a project like this!
Sheesh openslide was an absolute game changer when I was writing code to be able to utilize digital pathology and microscopy data in a browser. They've done some awesome work. I really enjoyed learning about the different formats and can't recommend the resources at OpenSlide enough.
Eh.. you'd be surprised. Medical Imaging isn't as radical as you may think it is (I spent 7 years doing projects for the exploitation of medical images).
I’ve had the pleasure of annual echo cardiograms my whole life, and moved around a lot, and at least my experience has been visible hardware/software/imagine improvements almost annually.
In any event I wasn’t saying all medical imaging is state of the art, I was saying it is another field where people prefer newer tech.
Absolutely fair. The vendors have gotten much much better tech "in the room" as it were - CT's are lightning fast anymore, US is clearer and can do more on-the-fly analysis than ever before (e.g. highlighting bloodflow dynamically and capturing tons of data in microseconds), etc. Every modality has grown tremendously so my comment wasn't nearly fair enough in acknowledging that.
Downstream is getting better with items such as AI advancements and more sophisticated mechanisms to transfer data between systems both on-prem and cloud-based, however utilization of all of this tend to be stifled a ton by the standard issue of tech moving faster than policy. My frustration/disgruntlement is due to this issue more than anything.
Thanks for the insight and the reminder that my bubble of experience isn't the world - seriously.
I've hit the same walls as you have described and found that it's less about cognitive function and more about a combination of burnout, imposter syndrome, and some quirks of my ADHD. I still love to program but when I get the chance to I largely can't organize my thoughts well enough to make much progress, but its because I left a job about 7 months ago where I had been repeatedly hitting burnout in a really nasty several-year long cycle. Now when I sit down to do it I have a thousand things in my brain and I can't stay focused on it. I switched to managing individuals as well over the last few years since I have some natural giftings there but it's made it so that my skills at just zoning in and coding for hours is effectively atrophied since I am so interrupt-driven as a manager (constant emails/IMs and being mindful of my team who I should be supporting rather than my own personal technical goals)..
I've found I need to stop comparing myself to my late twenties self and understand that my burdens are different and I need to set different expectations of myself. As my responsibilities and noise/interference have grown, my ability to do complex design/development has been inversely effected and waned significantly and _that's ok_. I need better tools and to be better at managing my time and energies to be more targeted/specific and I am much more effective than I was all those years ago. I just have to be more intentional and forgiving of myself.
It took me 2-3 years to fully heal from my burnout. Allow yourself more time if it's only 7 months since you quit your burnout-inducing job. The improvement of my energy, my mental abilities and memory is breathtaking, mentally I feel like 18 again (though I am 35 now).
Being CEO means making difficult decisions, and it isn't realistic to expect a CEO to only serve during good times. That said, I think it would go a long way towards appeasement if the messaging was more along the lines of "I will be withholding payment to myself until such time as we're in the black again" or something similar showing personal consequences beyond "mea culpa!" nonsense PR messaging.
Maybe it's reasonable to expect a CEO to resign when layoffs happen during a market upswing but... during a market downturn like this it's kind of inevitable to see layoffs in a services-based company when services are the some of the easiest things for consumers to scale back on when belt-tightening occurs. A change in leadership would only further hurt the people staying in the company, IMO.
While maybe my view is a bit myopic here, I think the harsh reality of the world is that it's very difficult to find an opportunity where all you do is write brand new code outside of a small/early stage startup. The numbers just don't make sense to constantly reinvent the wheel, even though many developers love and prefer that. In truth the best developers I've ever worked with and managed have a good intuition about when the re-use vs re-build and I support them in that. Developers who try to push too hard one way or the other often end up taking way longer than they should have to get a task done. As with darn near everything else in life - it's all about balance. That's my 2 cents anyways.
