Haha people have sent it to me! I'm currently trying to make it on my own in the wide world though.

I never disagreed with the decision to lay people off to become profitable. That's part of the implicit agreement when you take employment in the US. You can quit whenever you want and they can fire you whenever they want! I knew that going in!

I agreed with it, but of course it stung. That's only natural!

Sam and I are all good though! To his immense credit he reached out to me directly a little while back to mend any hurt feelings, of which I had a few. We're friends. He even came on my podcast and we talked for over an hour like old buds.

I have a lot of feelings and sometimes they get hurt. Sam has a fiduciary responsibility to the company. Today PlanetScale is a going concern and I'm happy and doing great! All is well.

The podcast is good btw, y'all should listen!

PlanetScale Postgres with CEO Sam Lambert https://youtu.be/IB3mzON8Iyw

I'm not sure returning to his previous job is his top priority right now.

Wow I didn't know he got laid off. I remember watching his videos a few years ago and absolutely loved his way of teaching. He's the reason I found out about PlanetScale to begin with.

Looking at their youtube channel, Aaron's videos had a total of ~1.4m views over 24 videos (an average of ~58k per video). Their recent videos don't even get past 1k views...

Imagine laying off one of the most genuine, friendly developer evangelists of all time.