After four years of various adventures, I'll be leaving Superscript. I'm working through April, will take most of May for other work, and then will be available for freelance work come June.

I've fulfilled several roles at Superscript, but am happy to end at a personal high note, with more than enough hands-on development time. While I've been a good manager, the actual architecture, design, and implementation of software systems remains my core passion.

Design trade-offs has been my red thread. There are wrong solutions and there are right solutions but there is never one right solution that checks exactly all the desired attributes while not checking any of the undesired. When we are clear about the attributes of the solution, then the appropriate one will highlight itself naturally. I'm proud of the team I'm leaving behind and how good they have become at this. The work we've done on payments and checkout is a testament to that.

Superscript has landed some major projects this year and it's a bad time to leave! There are plenty of engineering challenges to pick up right now. So if you are looking for your next step, Superscript is a good employer to check out.

But Rutger and I have been planning to take euquista to the next level for a long time now, and with the availability of AI tools such as Claude, Codex, and OpenCode, there is no more opportune moment than now. We hope to build out a nice product of our own in May!

It won't be full-time from the start, but I hope the flexibility of freelancing will allow me to open and close temporary assignments, while we build out euquista. We've already worked with one fantastic client and hope to land a second soon.

In the meantime I am looking to offer my services! So, if you have a software design, architecture, engineering, or delivery challenge, and you can use an extra hand, then you can hire the A Team me.