After freelancing (or hustlin’ – as I called it) for the past year and more, I’m finally settling down. As of last week, I’m now the CTO of Paperless Post. Though I truly loved working with a number of the clients I helped out over the past year, Paperless Post made me an offer I couldn’t refuse – not just monetarily. The team they’ve assembled is not only extremely talented, but is a pleasure to work with and constantly challenging each other to do great work. It would take nothing less to get me to commit to a project full time. That’s not all, though. For my friends and followers in the open source community, you’ll be happy to know that at PP we’re already using a number of my projects including Sammy.js. I actually worked to get into my contract that my responsibilities as a member of the community and a maintainer of these and new projects is part of my job. This means that I should actually get some dedicated time to work on Sammy and hopefully extract some of the cool ideas that we’re working on and get to share them with the community.

Paperless Post isn’t what you’d think of as a typical web startup. Sure, theres funding, competitors, crazy deploys, late night coding. However, they’ve actual made a business and the world outside of silicon alley has already noticed Its not a twitter mashup or a buzz word filled rails app with some missing vowels in the name. Our goal is not to constantly push the envelope, its to do a couple things really well and with style. I can’t tell you how excited I am to be helping to shape the future of this product.

The past couple of weeks has been a serious roller coaster of emotions but somehow thanks to my wife and friends I’ve landed on my feet and I’m better for it. Thanks especially to my former clients for being so supportive during this crazy transition.

Second, I’m headed back to Edinburgh to speak at the Scottish Ruby Conference. I love this city, and the conference last year was very much above par. I’m excited to say I’ll be talking about JavaScript at a Ruby Conference. I’ve been working this talk out in my head for a long time, through lessons learned and taught to my colleagues and clients. There are also a lot of other great looking talks, including Tim Bray, Alexander Lang, Scott Chacon. Actually, the whole conference looks pretty incredible. I guarantee fun. As of writing this, there are still tickets available, so register now.

Third, and possibly most exciting, I’m very proud to be chosen to speak at JSConf 2010. I heard nothing but “AWESOME” about last years event, and I kept hitting myself for missing it. This year the esteemed Chris Williams is putting together what promises to be the best techincal conference ever. I can’t even say how excited I am to be a part of it. The status is that the conference is already sold out, but I would follow @jsconf with a watchful eye to see if there are any announcements. Chris is also a lover of beer, so I cant promise anything, but some very very rare bottles might sway his favor.

There are some other proposals out there as well, but these two confs were all I did this year, I’d be pretty happy.