{"id":11748,"date":"2018-11-18T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=11748"},"modified":"2018-11-18T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T21:47:04","slug":"im-leaving-mozilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2018\/11\/18\/im-leaving-mozilla\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m leaving Mozilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s been five great years<\/a>, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else.<\/p>\n

During these five years I’ve met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet work with a global team on a widely used product, all done with open source. I have worked on internet protocols during work-hours (in addition to my regular spare-time working with them) and its been great! Heck, lots of the HTTP\/2<\/a> development and the publication of that was made while I was employed by Mozilla and I fondly participated in that. I shall forever have this time ingrained in my memory as a very good period of my life.<\/p>\n

\"\"I had already before I joined the Firefox development understood some of the challenges of making a browser in the modern era, but that understanding has now been properly enriched with lots of hands-on and code-digging in sometimes decades-old messy C++, a spaghetti armada of threads and the wild wild<\/em> west of users on the Internet.<\/p>\n

A very big thank you and a warm bye bye go to everyone of my friends at Mozilla. I won’t be far off and I’m sure I will have reasons to see many of you again.<\/p>\n

My last day as officially employed by Mozilla is December 11 2018, but I plan to spend some of my remaining saved up vacation days before then so I’ll hand over most of my responsibilities way before.<\/p>\n

The future is bright but unknown!<\/h2>\n

I don’t yet know what to do next.<\/p>\n

I have some ideas and communications with friends and companies, but nothing is firmly decided yet. I will certainly entertain you with a totally separate post on this blog once I have that figured out! Don’t worry.<\/p>\n

Will it affect curl or other open source I do?<\/h2>\n

\"\"I had worked on curl for a very long time already before joining Mozilla and I expect to keep doing curl and other open source things even going forward. I don’t think my choice of future employer should have to affect that negatively too much, except of course in periods.<\/p>\n

With me leaving Mozilla, we’re also losing Mozilla as a primary sponsor of the curl project<\/a>, since that was made up of them allowing me to spend some of my work days on curl and that’s now over.<\/p>\n

Short-term at least, this move might increase my curl activities since I don’t have any new job yet and I need to fill my days with something…<\/p>\n

What about toying with HTTP?<\/h2>\n

\"\"I was involved in the IETF HTTPbis working group for many years before I joined Mozilla (for over ten years now!) and I hope to be involved for many years still. I still have a lot of things I want to do with curl and to keep curl the champion of its class I need to stay on top of the game.<\/p>\n

I will continue to follow and work with HTTP and other internet protocols very closely. After all curl remains the world’s most widely used HTTP client<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Can I enter the US now?<\/h2>\n

No. That’s unfortunately not related, and I’m not leaving Mozilla because of this problem and I unfortunately don’t expect my visa situation to change because of this change. My visa counter<\/a> is now showing more than 214 days since I applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I’ve met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet work with a global team … Continue reading I’m leaving Mozilla<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,13,54],"tags":[33,230,425,345,427],"class_list":["post-11748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curl","category-mozilla","category-net","category-work","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-http","tag-mozilla","tag-travel","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11748"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11815,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11748\/revisions\/11815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}