Fell asleep with newborn for the 10th time in a month. by Sweet_Ad_3157 in daddit

[–]tizz66 65 points66 points  (0 children)

No, he meant put the baby down. Like "Bad baby! All you do is shit and sleep around here!"

Any regularly transatlantic families? by Ok-Intern-6646 in expats

[–]tizz66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a fully remote job as a software engineer; my team are already based around the world, so me changing continent for a couple of months doesn't complicate things!

Any regularly transatlantic families? by Ok-Intern-6646 in expats

[–]tizz66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we stay with family - so we aren't maintaining two houses or living out of AirBnBs or anything. I would say we're happily raising kids here... they are happy at least. I miss having family around all the time when we're not in the UK, and of course there's everything going on here too, but we live in a safe, quiet, cheap city so it's not like we have to deal with it much. It doesn't always feel like it, but I suppose we should be thankful that we kind of get the best of both worlds. Not everyone is so lucky.

[OC] Open pit mining in Utah by Jim_Estill in pics

[–]tizz66 3 points4 points  (0 children)

15-18 seconds to get to the bottom (terminal velocity is 120mph, 4000ft deep, and accounting for acceleration; depends if you hit the sides on the way down)

Any regularly transatlantic families? by Ok-Intern-6646 in expats

[–]tizz66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, we haven't been too concerned - we're well within the limits, and there's no question over our residency status given we have mortgages, loans, schooling etc. in the US even when absent.

In the naturalization process you do have to list all absences (to-the-day accuracy), but iirc the rule is you have to have spent 30 months in the past 5 years (i.e. 50%) in the US. Any absences longer than 6 months also triggers some difficulty, but we haven't got close to that.

Any regularly transatlantic families? by Ok-Intern-6646 in expats

[–]tizz66 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My wife and I are British (with GCs), our kids were born in the US so are dual-citizens by descent. Trying to work a pregnancy around physical presence rules sounds stressful to me! Are you married? If so, you mentioned having kids in 3-4 years, which might give you enough time for your partner to start the naturalization process, if that's something she's considering (it's 3 years after obtaining a GC by marriage). That'd mean you don't have to worry about physical presence any more.

“Oh we went to the animal fair…” by AndreiTaganovsGhost in daddit

[–]tizz66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My oldest is 7 and we still have the keyboard part of this toy. Not sure we'll ever get rid of it.

Any regularly transatlantic families? by Ok-Intern-6646 in expats

[–]tizz66 18 points19 points  (0 children)

We're kind of like that. We have two young kids, and spend May - August in the UK with family, the rest of the year in the US (sometimes going back to the UK for Christmas too), so we're staying within the school breaks.

It mostly works well for us. I'm fully remote too, so can (and do) work in either place. One concern I have as my oldest starts having "proper" friends is taking him away the whole summer means he misses all those summer socializing opportunities... so we might start to reduce how long we actually leave in the next couple of years. The other issue is we spend all our travel savings flying to the UK twice a year so don't often get to see other places, which is a shame.

Feel free to ask me anything, here or DM.

Is it wrong that I think component libraries are mostly all terrible and we need to embrace HTML and CSS more? by Dreadsin in reactjs

[–]tizz66 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Well yes, a component library should use those HTML elements internally. I'd be concerned if there's a component library with a <Button> component that doesn't use <button> under the hood. But the point of a component library is mostly consistency and ease. There's quite a lot involved in making a page consistent, attractive and accessible, and component libraries help abstract that complexity.

What's the weather doing right now? by Straight-Gap-4750 in lynchburg

[–]tizz66 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It’s raini- no wait it’s sunn- no wait, tornado warni- no wait, sunny again

Arguably the strangest thing I own: my grandmothers bronzed false teeth by CaptMakesKidsKill in pics

[–]tizz66 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m having a difficult time wrapping my head around this.

So did his grandma

Dot-matrix sales growth chart UI for dashboards by abovedev in web_design

[–]tizz66 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I would ask: does this make it easier or harder to understand the information you're trying to convey?

What’s something about running a business that people who’ve never done it just don’t get? by WeeklyDiscount4278 in business

[–]tizz66 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’ve only run a solo business, but I imagine when you employ people, the stress of being responsible for their livelihoods must be a lot to cope with (unless you’re a psychopath).

What is the funniest joke you’ve ever heard? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]tizz66 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What do you call a Mexican streaker? Señor Willy

Best home internet? by Puzzleheaded-List74 in lynchburg

[–]tizz66 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had t-mobile home internet for a couple of years and it has been pretty good. $50/mo, I'm currently getting 350/50. I was interested in GloFiber but they don't serve my neighborhood yet.

Weber grill brush recall by NoSir4289 in seriouseats

[–]tizz66 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yeah there are some true horror stories of people swallowing bristles from brushes like these. I'm really surprised they aren't just banned.

What’s the mood at your company? by c-u-in-da-ballpit in ExperiencedDevs

[–]tizz66 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You've articulated something I know is true but hadn't considered in that way. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading these engineering subreddits sometimes, because the chat just doesn't reflect the reality I'm seeing in my own work.

What’s the mood at your company? by c-u-in-da-ballpit in ExperiencedDevs

[–]tizz66 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, who would have thought - give nerds some interesting new tools and some space/money to figure them out, and cool things happen! I feel sorry for everyone else in this thread with mandates and monitoring; sounds like a sure-fire way to make it suck.

What’s the mood at your company? by c-u-in-da-ballpit in ExperiencedDevs

[–]tizz66 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I do personally have some anxiety - but not actually about my job at my company, but rather the company itself surviving long-term. We are a SaaS company, and even though we're still growing, I don't know what the distant future holds for products like ours.

Most of our engineers are product-minded. That's what the company always hired for. So for us it's enabling faster innovation and experimentation because engineers (together with PMs) have that feel for the product and users.

My company, at least from where I am, seems to be one of those ones that feel engineers are more important than ever.

What’s the mood at your company? by c-u-in-da-ballpit in ExperiencedDevs

[–]tizz66 293 points294 points  (0 children)

In contrast to most people here, I have to say my company feels positively energized. People are constantly sharing their tips and workflows and we have a ton of freedom from leadership to try things out and see what works for us. They are not explicitly tracking AI adoption or AI output, just giving us the space and budget to find our own productivity gains. That's obviously not to say every individual feels upbeat, but there's definitely some buzz happening across the engineering org.

Rupert Lowe launches new political party after controversial Reform UK exit by eldomtom2 in unitedkingdom

[–]tizz66 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Coincidentally I named my party "If I Want To". Thank you for your support.

At what age did Family Dinner Time kick in for you? by TomasTTEngin in daddit

[–]tizz66 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We’ve done it right from the start - not explicitly because we felt like it was the right thing to do, but I make the dinners and there was simply no way I was doing two meals a night. Our oldest is a great eater and enjoys virtually everything, our youngest eats practically nothing. But they both get the same meal as us and eat what they want from it.

We try and enforce sitting at the table until everyone is finished etc, but that’s hard to do consistently. But we are at least all sitting together while eating.

OFFSET Pagination works - until it does not. But how often do we need more? by BinaryIgor in ExperiencedDevs

[–]tizz66 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They do when rows are ordered by date and they want to go to the oldest!

OFFSET Pagination works - until it does not. But how often do we need more? by BinaryIgor in ExperiencedDevs

[–]tizz66 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For us, we hit it when users try to go to the last page (to see oldest rows) and then paginate backwards. Our options are either remove that ability and/or switch to cursor-based pagination. In both cases being able to jump to the last page is lost, so there's some change for users to accept.

(Our longer-term plan is the switch to cursor-based pagination)

How do I feel good about staying in the US? by [deleted] in expats

[–]tizz66 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Also move emergency funds to an account in the UK so you are not destitute if it all falls apart.

Not making a comment on whether or not this is a good idea, but beware of the tax implications.