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.

Story time — I saw hundreds of thousands of dollars thrown away on a prematurely acquired software product that was eventually killed off.

I used to be a Windows guy. I had to switch over to Mac for software development. I disliked iOS. It took about a year of installing the right apps and getting used to the Mac.