Change (B)log
Written by Joseph Weidinger.
Week 24 Update - The Hack Win
June 21, 2019Like a few months ago, there was a Hackathon at Carfax yesterday and today. And like a few months ago, I won the same award: Best…
Week 23 Update - The New Scenes
June 14, 2019As I mentioned last week, I bought a banjo recently. Last Saturday I made a trip to St. Louis to buy some more stuff from Music Folk. I was…
Week 22 Update - The SoundCloud divorce
June 07, 2019I decided to not host my interviews in SoundCloud any more. I’ve used SoundCloud as the host of all my audio files since day one. When I…
Week 21 Update - The Tinnitus Story
May 31, 2019I smiled when thinking about the tinnitus I have for the first time in a while. I gave myself tinnitus 2.5 years ago when I played drums in…
Week 20 Update - The Data Model
May 24, 2019This past week at Carfax has been one of great excitement! I’m working together every day with our platform engineers to design and…
Week 19 Update - The Card Pusher
May 17, 2019At this point much of my life is organized by cards: digital notes that tell me what to do at any given point. At Carfax we use Jira…
Week 18 Update - The Failed Job Interview
May 10, 2019I applied for a different coding gig and after doing all the interviews and such I found out that I didn’t get it. I kind of promised that I…
Week 17 Update - The Side Music Projects
May 03, 2019Spent time in the studio with Wil Reeves again mixing and mastering two songs I produced. One song was with Anup and one was with Caleb. In…
Week 16 Update - The Unexpected Carfax Projects
April 26, 2019This week has been a pretty dynamic one for my work life. Early on in these blogs I wrote about some work-related projects that I had been…
Q1 Update
April 21, 2019Q1 ended a few weeks ago and I want to check on how I’m delivering on the goals I made a few months ago. 1. 52 people interviewed So far, I…
Week 15 Update - The Nirvana Rediscovery
April 19, 2019I’ve been listening to a lot of Nirvana recently. I started listening to them heavily when I was around 10 years old. Since the very…
Week 14 Update - The Roommate Projects
April 12, 2019I’ve been doing a lot of projects recently with my roommate and friend, Caleb Salyer. For the last few weeks we’ve been recording podcasts…
Week 12 Update - The Mix Master
March 29, 2019Just got done with a long day in the studio with Wil Reeves and Sizable. We mixed the last few songs for this record and he also added…
Week 11 Update - The Pop A Shot Tourney
March 22, 2019It’s March Madness. Every TV at Shakes has a different game on. Everyone at work is talking about their brackets. In the spirit, Carfax…
Week 10 Update - The Surprise Birthday Party
March 15, 2019Today is my dad’s birthday. All of us kids surprised him by showing up in Vienna today. It’s hard to call it a surprise though. He pieced…
Week 9 Update - The Week 9 Grind
March 08, 2019Here are some things I did this past week… Interviews I interviewed Thomas Blower last Saturday. We did the interview at Nourish at 10 AM…
Week 8 Update - The Anniversaries
March 01, 2019Today marks the first anniversary of me buying my little home. I’m still in love with this pad and feel so lucky that I was able to be in a…
Week 7 Update - The First Mix Session
February 22, 2019Sizable met with Wil Reeves earlier this week for 3 hours to mix 2 songs. It was awesome! I worked with Wil a few years ago on these two…
Week 6 Update - The Awkward Dinner
February 15, 2019Last week my younger brother Phillip hit me up to go grab a beer and some dinner at Jazz, a New Orleans themed restaurant. He knew some…
Week 5 Update - The Music Idea
February 08, 2019A few hours ago I was at Shakespeare’s rolling pizza dough. It was my first shift back wearing Andrew Pracchia’s old hat. I had lost track…
Week 4 Update - The Time Optimizations
February 01, 2019I feel like another week has gone by and I haven’t done anything. But that’s a lie. My log shows me otherwise. (And at some point in the…
Week 3 Update - The "Passion" Project
January 25, 2019A quick run down Just got back from Carfax’s annual Employee Appreciation Party; it was a good night of talking (shouting… it was loud) with…
Week 2 Update - The stiff neck
January 18, 2019Just took a shower after working at Shakes. It was steady but not that busy. Woke up Sunday morning with a stiff neck. Or maybe it was just…
Week 1 Update
January 11, 2019Hello from Vienna, MO. I’m trying to write this blog at the dinner table and my family members are playing Rummikub at the other end. I…
52 Weeks Until 2020
January 04, 2019I have 52 weeks until I’m 30 years old. By the time my own father and grandfather were 30, they were married, had kids, and created…