#parenting

Posts tagged #parenting

1. Experience

   5.30 am, before the tiffin boxes: relearning Java after a 7 year break (and what changed since Java 8)

   Good morning everyone. It is 5.30 am in Pune, the children are asleep, the milk has not come yet, and I have about 50 minutes. So I will write fast. Kindly excuse any mistakes. I was a Java developer at a service company until 2018. Then two children, and my father-in-law's illness, and I took a break that was supposed to be one year and became seven. Three months ago I decided to come back. Many people here have…

   Meenal DeshpandeSep 21, 202639likes9comments

2. Article

   The school concert was at 3 pm on a Tuesday. Here is the calendar block I now use, and why I stopped apologising for it

   My daughter is seven. Last month her school had its annual day concert at 3 pm on a Tuesday, which, if you are a working parent in India, you will recognise as a time chosen by someone who has never had a 3 pm sprint review. For years, my move in this situation was to sneak out. Leave my status green, keep Slack open on my phone in the auditorium, answer one message during the song my daughter had practised for…

   Divya RamanathanAug 23, 202618likes13comments

3. Update

   took a whole Saturday off. braai, my daughter's netball…

   took a whole Saturday off. braai, my daughter's netball match, phone in the cubbyhole of the car. came back to 0 pages, 0 incidents, 0 Slack drama. turns out the payments system doesn't need me watching it. rude. but lekker.

   Lindiwe MokoenaAug 22, 20268likes6comments

4. Experience

   what coding after bedtime actually looks like (a real log from last night, mom of 3 edition)

   so people keep asking me how i "find time" to learn to code with 3 kids and a full time job and honestly i dont find it, i steal it. here is last night, exactly as it happened, becuase i wrote it down as a joke and then thought maybe someone else needs to see that its messy for everyone lol 8:52pm all three in bed. husband left for night shift at the plant at 9. dishes can wait. they always wait. they're very…

   Jen HayesAug 21, 202654likes14comments

5. Article

   Raising a daughter in Hsinchu while the news talks about blockades

   I am a process integration engineer at a foundry in Hsinchu. I will not say which one and I will not say anything about work, customers or yields, please do not ask. I want to write about something else: what it is like to live here, in the middle of a topic that people far away discuss like a strategy game. The ships on TV My daughter is 7. During the large drills, the news shows maps with red arrows around our…

   C.M. Huang 黃志明Aug 14, 202646likes15comments

6. Update

   alert at 3:12. both kids in the mamad in 50 seconds, new…

   alert at 3:12. both kids in the mamad in 50 seconds, new record. back to bed 3:40. standup 9:00. if my PR review this morning was too honest, sorry Ilan. it was the sirens, not your code. (it was also your code)

   Yoni PeretzAug 8, 20269likes6comments

7. Experience

   About a minute to the shelter, and coming back from reserve duty to a codebase that moved on

   Two stories. Both true. Both about deploys, kind of. One. In Haifa we have about a minute from the alert to the mamad, the safe room, sometimes less. I was in the middle of a rollout, kubectl rollout status running, new pods coming up. Alert. I grabbed the little one, my wife grabbed the big one, laptop stayed on the kitchen table. Ten minutes in the mamad, kids asking if the boom was close, me saying no with the…

   Yoni PeretzJul 24, 202623likes13comments

8. Experience

   Typhoon week at the fab: the city stops, the fab does not

   We had our first strong typhoon of the season last week. Some colleagues abroad asked me "do you get the day off?" and the answer is complicated, so I want to write about it from the inside. I cannot say anything about my company, the tools, the yields or the customers, so please do not ask. I will only write about the people. How a typhoon day works here When a typhoon is coming, each city and county government…

   C.M. Huang 黃志明Jul 21, 202630likes12comments

9. Experience

   Right, they're down. Where was I? Coding in the 9pm to midnight window as a dad of two

   Every evening at about half eight I do the same thing. Bath, teeth, two stories (one of which is always the same dinosaur book, I could recite it in my sleep and sometimes do), one glass of water, one second glass of water, "Dad there's a noise", and then finally, around nine, quiet. I come downstairs, open the laptop and say out loud to nobody, "right, they're down, where was I." The answer, for about the first…

   Imran HussainJul 8, 202610likes9comments