I’m stepping down and away from Triton and SmartOS development.

I can confirm that MNX (the former owner of Triton) has been acquired by Parler. Yes, you read that right. The deal was finalized in November 2024. Employees weren’t much notice. Acquihire offers went out on 11/18, due on 11/29. They came in late enough that most people didn’t see it until the next day and with most of us having taken the entire week of Thanksgiving off, that left only three days to decide if we’d still have a job when coming back from vacation.

As of last week, I’ve resigned from all formal activity. The remainder of my time is being taken as PTO. My last day is Friday.

I started working at Joyent in April of 2014. As of this writing, that’s been ten years and ten months. It’s been a wild ride. I had hoped for better.