Category: Dancing Engineer

  • Dutch Lock Down Day Eight

    Alt Title: “This Roller Coaster Fucking Sucks” Strap in, Warriors, this one’s a doozy. First, awesome news! Cause we always start with awesome news? No, cause this roller coaster is SEQUENTIAL. Yay, news from the daycare! I’ll admit, I winced. There have been SO MANY SHITTY EMAILS from so many places with updates around the…

  • What is Your Armageddon Agenda?

    I just figured something out. I’m slow sometimes. #PBBT At a certain time, people started scolding me whenever I would shake their hands, but they would scold me with a dash of embarrassment and humour. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte accidentally shakes the hand of a health official after announcing a "no handshake policy". Video:…

  • Check This Out: Wash Your Lyrics

    WashYourLyrics.Com made by the badass William @neoncloth and totally not affiliated with the NHS or any other government body.

  • FYI – A Is The Oldest Child

    There are always ‘puzzles’ and looming #ToDos on the horizon wearing us down and sticking in the back of the brain and it all boils down to not prioritizing it.

  • New Habits Are Hard

    There are a few things I consider more important than taking care of someone else – brushing my teeth, showering, sleeping, health, yin yoga, walking outside, exercise, eating, meditation, plenty of english breakfast tea with a ton of milk, and at least one small round of Swedish, Japanese and Dutch every single day.

  • It Pours

    I completely didn’t write yesterday. I remembered, but then I forgot. That’s how it works sometimes. But I wrote today and published not one, but TWO articles. #WhenItRains WAIT Did I just find my hashtag?!? Holy shit! ASIDE: I once heard a podcast wherein the person said that they were asked to sift through all…

  • There are Many Paths – This is Just One

    When choosing to respond to events, both negative or positive, because, yes, it’s a choice – we are not animals driven by instinct, but people with intellect and experience and #CHOICES – when that moment comes, you have infinite choices. Perhaps, yes, you can let emotions drive, resulting in variable reactions and while, yes, I…

  • Oh, Hello There, World

    At some point I was writing and posting every single day. Go, me! Because I heard Seth Godin talk about it on NPR or somewhere at some point – to write every day – and it resonated. So I did. Mostly. Except then groningenrain.nl was hacked. Stripped. No backup.

  • Call For Outreachy Mentors

    Outreachy is looking for open source communities to provide mentors for their internship program. Community members should sign up to participate by February 18.

  • Let’s Get To Know One Another

    I’ve heard of these referred as “Chinese Portrait”, but I can’t find the historical relevance or etymology which makes me think that it doesn’t come from Chinese ancestry at all. Does anyone know?

  • Soothes The Savage Beast #AMIRITE

    …my brain has particularly been focused on music lately because, for example, Spotify was totally one of the sponsors at DevRelCon London 2019. Which is totally badass, right? #MUSIC

  • Workin’ NINE to FIVE. What A Way To Make A Livin’!

    Red Hat was everything I’d ever wanted and I didn’t care about the money – I was doing what I loved. Also my partner and I didn’t have any children and our student loans were reasonable.