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How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React
Figuring out how to set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL, and React can be a complex task, especially if you, like me, don’t really code much nowadays. The boilerplate effort around configuring these technologies is often the first thing I forget with each re-immersion. This article serves as a reminder for how to kickstart aContinue reading “How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React”
How to Craft and Optimize an Awesome Tech Resume
Most tech resumes suck. As someone who’s worked in tech for years, and spent time on two startups in the human capital space (ProjectSherpa and Scouted) focused on analyzing resumes, including the tech resume, I can say I’ve seen tens of thousands of resumes, and they are, on average, bad. If you’ve ever done anyContinue reading “How to Craft and Optimize an Awesome Tech Resume”
Most Common First Baby Words
Every day during her first months of life, I would tell my daughter, “Where is daddy’s nose? [dramatic pause…] There it is!” It wasn’t surprising that her first word was “nose.” Her sister, who is just starting to speak now didn’t get the same nose game. Her first word was a more traditional “daddy,” whichContinue reading “Most Common First Baby Words”
12 Proven Ways to Improve Baby Name Recognition
According to Parents magazine, “most babies learn that their names refer to themselves” between 5 and 7 months. Babies hear their name often, and it quickly becomes one of the most important words in their vocabulary. Name recognition by sight on paper is a different story; however, it’s one that you can expedite with aContinue reading “12 Proven Ways to Improve Baby Name Recognition”
Don’t Read to Your Kids
Sorry, it’s a bit of a clickbait title. What I actually mean is, don’t always read to your kids, but sometimes let them read to you. Clearly, it is very important to read to your children. As a new parent, a friend advised me to make reading part of a routine – any routine. SoContinue reading “Don’t Read to Your Kids”
Flappy the Awesome Animated Elephant
Our youngest daughter’s great-grandma recently bought her GUND’s Animated Elephant. Flappy! ‘Awesome… another f’n stuffed animal.’ But then we pressed the Sing button, and holy crap but is this thing adorable. I’ll let Flappy speak for itself here. Over and over we played, “Do your ears hang low…” until it was burned in our heads.Continue reading “Flappy the Awesome Animated Elephant”
The 9 Best Baby Teethers
Inevitably, your newborn’s teeth will start to cut the day after you feel settled in a routine. Often this is somewhere around 4-6 months, but it can also happen much later, around the 10-12 month mark even. When it happens, your kid will be miserable, drooling, leaking nose goop, putting everything into his/her mouth, andContinue reading “The 9 Best Baby Teethers”
Do Newborns Have a Right to Digital Privacy?
When you’re preparing for your newborn, you’ve got big fish to fry: where will the baby sleep? How will you feed the baby? How do we take care of a little human being? It’s unlikely email or digital privacy is top-of-mind, and certainly you won’t be discussing these things in a Lamaze class. However, theyContinue reading “Do Newborns Have a Right to Digital Privacy?”
How to Teach Your Toddler Piano Lessons
When I was 5, my parents asked a piano teacher to start giving me lessons. The piano teacher scoffed – I was too young, wouldn’t have the attention span, and wouldn’t have the dexterity. Toddler piano lessons were a waste of time. He agreed to a single session to test me out. After 15 minutes,Continue reading “How to Teach Your Toddler Piano Lessons”
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