Hi! I'm a Dad, husband, software maker, musician and coffee enthusiast from Portsmouth, UK. You can find me elsewhere on the internet in these places: x....
I just finished 13 months of daily 20-minute standups, and realised how much better life is without them. The first few years of my software career, I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing, I just built stuff. Then I joined an agency and learned that software teams do "standups": a daily meeting where everyone on the team shares what they did yesterday, what they'll be doing today, and…
I can't remember how I found x.com/melissa , but it's one of my favourites. Melissa does a lot of reading (a trait I wish I possessed), particularly on raising kids. Having been a Dad for a few years now, and still trying to figure out how to not mess it up, I enjoy her posts a lot. A funny thing I've found with trying to become a better parent is that it's largely a case of becoming a better…