On Monday, Tiny turned 6 months old. For half a year now, I’ve been a parent. It still feels pretty weird to call myself that, though. Parent is a word that conjures up a mental image of someone strong, nurturing, patient, and above all who knows all the answers. In many ways, I feel more […]
At a recent Three Rings developer event I found myself hunting for a good cheat sheet for the Ruby 2 debugger Byebug. I couldn’t find anything much, so I made my own :). Acknowledgment The design of this cheat sheet borrows heavily from my favourite GDB quick reference guide. Contents Starting Byebug Stopping Again Essential […]
My life is filled with black boxes. When I was a kiddy, there were loads of things I didn’t understand. Closed systems where I could see what went in, and what came out, but had no idea of what happened in the middle. This included everything from how one went about acquiring money to how […]
In case anyone missed it, I finally gave birth the other week. I can honestly say that despite all the books I read, the other mothers I’d spoken to and the antenatal classes I attended, I was completely unprepared for how horrible it was going to be. I’d like to say that my (awful) experience […]
I started my maternity leave on Monday. So far I haven’t exactly been taking it easy – I’m trying to finish off a new feature for Three Rings in time for the January release, I’ve just finished wrapping all the Christmas presents, I’ve started making desserts for Christmas, and I still have Tiny’s room to […]
I had the day off work today, so I’ve been catching up on my festive baking. I know the second week of December is a bit late to make Christmas cake, but I’m ahead on the Christmas shopping, so that cancels out, right? Anyway, these cakes started life as a neat idea for decorating Christmas […]
So I just scored 26 out of 32 on a stress test over on the Beeb. Nausea? Check. Sleeplessness? Check. Easily lose track of things… All the frickin’ checks. Maybe all stressed people are just pregnant and don’t realise? Compared with times when I really have been under high stress, though, I’d take life as […]
A couple of weeks ago, I finally told my coworkers I’m pregnant. I’m not sure why it took so long, but I got really self-conscious about saying anything. Partly, I guess, I didn’t want to have the conversations which always seem to follow the announcement with a bunch of people I hardly know. Partly I […]
So last Wednesday I got to spend quite a lot of time in the hospital. At the point at which I got the call to say that Dan was in A&E, I had in fact only just got back from the exact same hospital, where I’d been having my 20-week scan. JTA and I watched […]
Today I sat the worst exam I’ve ever taken. I don’t mean it was hard. It was actually pretty straightforward – an hour to do 60 multiple choice questions. In the end it took me half an hour, and a large chunk of that was double-checking my answers. Simple as it was once I entered […]