Category: Dancing Engineer
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So I Ran Over to Brno And Then
I died. But then I got better. Almost.
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No Headaches, Yet, But
In a surreal twist of something, there was a rather large tour from Japan on the ass o’clock in the morning flight from AMS to PRG and most of them spoke not a single word of English, but, somehow, one of them had been assigned to the emergency row right behind me, so when the…
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Some Things Bear Repeating
This video came up on my facebook memory feed the other day and I watched it and realized YES YES YES I need to rewatch this about once a year forever and EVER. So take a minute (or four) to watch the whole thing cause #ZOMG #YESSSS And, really, there’s not a lot I can…
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Passing The Torch Without Dropping The Ball
And I was like, “That’s cool,” and my boss says it’s cool, everyone said it was cool, except that my uterus said that’s Not Cool because we’re going to have twins now.
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I Have An Office!
When we found out we were pregnant with twins, among the plethora of stressors was that we’d need to remodel our house extensively to make it work once said twins were old enough to want their own spaces. This is YEARS in the future, but it was still right there with all the other OMG…
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Step Zero: Schedule Your First Event
Whether you’re curious about the open source world or hacked on the kernel back in the 90s, we’d love to see you at PatchMakers.
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AMSterDAMN It’s COLD
I’m down in Amsterdam today to visit the DevRel Salon AMS meetup group that’s Parisian Salon meets DevRel action meets AMSTERDAM. I don’t know what that looks like either, so I’m super stoked to find out tonight. And it really is That Cold. I mean, #DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN Also, I’m the special guest at tonight’s meetup. No…
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Why, Hello, 2019
I blinked awake at three this morning. After going to bed at ten ish. And let’s just say that the early morning of 2019 were not the most ideal way to start the new year. And also let’s just say that this post is about poop. You’ve been warned. As I said, I blinked awake…
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What Was Your Biggest Lesson From 2018?
A fellow Toastmaster wrote a piece about her biggest lessons learned in 2018 which I promptly forwarded. #transformation #change But then she turned it around on me. “Thank you for sharing K Rain Leander! Love to know – what was your biggest lesson from 2018?” ~ Sangbreeta Moitra And, yup, I have been mulling over…
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Gather Round, Kiddies – Mama Has A BedTime Story
Once upon a time Papa had a wonderful opportunity to work in the Netherlands and Mama could work from anywhere in the world, so the Leander Family moved to Groningen.
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Do All The Things Right Now
Around this time of year, a few of us are thinking about what we might pledge to do differently in the new year. “Starting next year, I will…” go to the gym regularly eat healthy drop kilos lower body fat get super fit study more programming languages build some apps in said programming languages throw…
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Who Down With OCP?!?
YEAH YOU KNOW ME! I went to six conferences in forty eight days and that’s just a bit overwhelming. I had this abstract idea that it was over the course of the around eight weeks or so but then I looked at the actual dates and pulled it up on a calendar calculator and now…