Here’s what I learned about putting my kid to sleep and the mistakes I’ve made.

strong_migrations gem prevents large database tables from locking up when running database migrations. The drawback is that instead of running one easy Rails migration, you end up breaking up migrations into three parts.

If I had to become a first time father again, here are the essentials I’d get for my newborn. I used all the items I list here.

While you can ask parents around you about their parenthood experiences, you’ll seldom hear the raw truth. You won’t hear things like — I don’t know if I’d do it again. Or how about — my life has never been the same and I’m depressed. Or how about — it caused my divorce. You’ll mostly hear It’s hard but oh my god, it’s worth it.

I write this as a Dad with a newborn that is about two months old.

Taking care of a newborn child is difficult. It’s way harder than I imagined. There’s no off switch. There’s no clocking out.

Several parents told me things that I found to be false after having my kid. Let’s explore.

After watching my few week-old newborn for 7 hours, I was drained. I’m not going to sugarcoat it — I was going through hell as he was fussing, crying, and intermittently sleeping.

I like using Typhoeus for making API calls in Ruby on Rails because the interface is simple. Here’s how I use it.

All the jobs I’ve held as a petroleum engineer came from direct referrals. After I was laid off from my first job, I filled out a boatload of online applications to work at oil and gas companies.