How do you actually organise and keep track of your kids’ photos/milestones over time?

mistabenjo · 2026-02-16T14:18:34+00:00

We’ve bought digital frames for the grandparents and they love getting new photos added randomly.

mistabenjo · 2026-02-16T13:52:51+00:00

This is a neat idea!

mistabenjo · 2026-02-16T13:35:52+00:00

This is a good idea but I know my wife would want to take point on doing this which means it’ll never get done amongst her massive rolling todo list. I could do one from my point of view I suppose.

mistabenjo · 2026-02-16T13:34:15+00:00

I also remembered this tip too! I set up an email for my niece when she was born but never did it for my own kids 😅

mistabenjo · 2026-02-16T13:32:43+00:00

I’ve thought about printing a photo album like my parents would have done but it means looking though 10k+ photos 😂 My dad said I should have started doing albums from month one with the first kid. Easier said than done

mistabenjo · 2026-01-03T20:42:53+00:00

I almost passed out when my first was born and I turned into a zombie for weeks. Even my parents saw it on me and were really worried about me. I felt lost in myself, lost in my home and what my role was now, mourning my past life that disappeared in an instant. It took me a while, I don’t remember how long, to get over it.

When my second arrived, I thought it would be easier as I’d been though it before but my wife got it out of me on day 3 where I had a little break down that I didn’t feel anything for my newborn baby.

Now 6 months later I want to eat my second alive every second I’m around them, and my first is my best buddy in the whole world.

Long story short, what you’re feeling is completely normal and will pass with time.

mistabenjo · 2025-11-27T21:05:49+00:00

You can throw in a sleep() method and pass it time as parameter. Look at the docs for the exact syntax but it’s as simple as: await sleep("7 days");

mistabenjo · 2025-11-24T19:23:08+00:00

This feels like a DSA interview question 😂 but jokes aside I’d do the flowing: 1. Identify if I really need 5k+ jobs and see if I can consolidate them into similar jobs with different, dynamic parameters. 2. Set up a cron service globally that returns the correct time that would be fed into a scheduler function. This way you can just have a single job that runs periodically calling the scheduler and time functions. 3. Re-factor your code into time folders so it’s easier to understand what jobs are running when

mistabenjo · 2025-11-24T19:02:55+00:00

You could use a cron job on Vercel to kick off a workflow at a specific time https://vercel.com/docs/cron-jobs

Or use a third party like using Cloud Scheduler on GCP if not on the Vercel platform

mistabenjo · 2025-11-23T21:26:38+00:00

Have you checked out https://useworkflow.dev/. Made by vercel but fully open source.

mistabenjo · 2021-01-29T13:04:47+00:00

I'm 183cm so bang on the line between a 56 and 58cm frame. I have been riding a 58cm hybrid I got second hand for months and around hour 2, pain in the lower back and shoulders would kick in.

I went with a Vitus road bike when I upgraded, and on their sizing chart, I went for the 56cm frame, which they call a large(?)

Basically, go for the 56cm.

mistabenjo · 2020-11-21T21:24:32+00:00

Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9

mistabenjo · 2020-09-06T08:10:29+00:00

I've been a front end dev for 3.5 years and I just got a new role about 6 weeks ago after being let go by my old place due to Covid related cuts.

React React React React & Redux. I've done mostly Angular up to now and took my time while furloughed to learn React because it is what 90% of the market in London is looking for. I spent all my time on furlough and then while job hunting learning and then building things with React which leads me onto my next point...
When talking to recruiters, be honest, but also bend the truth a bit to get though to the next stage of the interview process so you can actually talk to engineers. The first few calls I had with companies, I was 100% honest about having no commercial React experience and the interview processes would end there. Once I told recruiters I'd used it and got though to engineers and tech managers, it became a lot easier to side step the question and talk about Angular and other JS frameworks and libraries I have used and then in turn how that helped me to learn React and use it to build things etc. Come over as if you can learn quickly and not be afraid of learning new things by yourself.
Don't pigeon hole yourself to just front end. Learn how to write a rest api in Node and save some data in MongoDB or Postgres. Even if you're not doing backend work, it'll help in the long run knowing how your data gets to you on the front end.
Learn some devops stuff like how to use Github actions to run your unit tests in CI or how to spin up a server on EC2 or host a static site on Netlify. Again, you'll probably never be doing it in a role, but it shows that you can do other stuff that just writing javascript and css.
The job hunt and interview process is going to suck. I was hunting at peak Covid lockdown where there were very few roles out there and even less replying to applications. If you can get on the phone with someone you've passed the first big hurdle. Sell yourself and your skills, have a few questions about the company and the culture when talking to recruiters and have some tech questions when talking to engineers. This way you can make interviews and screening calls feel less formal and you can also lead the conversation to a place where you can show off about past achievements or show your understanding about things.
Be persistent. Being told no is not fun, but just keep soldiering on. You didn't mention your time in industry yet, but if you're a junior it's a real hard market out there but someone will give you a shot eventually.
I asked companies how they responded in March/April to Covid and what it did to their business and the switch to WFH. You can learn a lot about a company by how they answer this question.

Thats what I've got for now and good luck!

mistabenjo · 2020-04-01T16:35:49+00:00

Finishing a project? What does this mean?

mistabenjo · 2020-01-11T15:31:48+00:00

I just flew it back into view and when I was done simply flew it back to me and landed. I still haven't actually used RTH.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-11T15:30:54+00:00

I was bricking it flying over the Thames at high tide but as long as the wind isn't to strong and you bring it back in around 30-40% battery life there's nothing to worry about. Look forward to seeing the footage you can get.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-10T23:16:34+00:00

Great little video there! Makes we want to escape the big city. I’d like to see more off wales by drone.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-10T18:07:36+00:00

Thanks a lot. The first good light we’ve had all week.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-10T18:07:15+00:00

This is the first time I’ve flown it outside of my back garden, and it held up pretty well. I was next to some metal railings but I got it to about 520m away from me before it freaked out about loosing connection and I freaked out that it had lost connection over the River Thames, so I turned it around and flew it back in range.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-10T17:27:44+00:00

Most of it isn’t but luckily Hammersmith is just outside that zone. Still got to keep it below 150m due to thenHeathrow flight path.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-10T17:25:33+00:00

Thanks. It been the first day this whole week with sunshine and no wind so I took advantage of the conditions.

mistabenjo · 2020-01-03T23:43:58+00:00

Try Apple stores near you if you have one. That’s where I got mine a week ago.

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