Lobsters - 02 Oct 2026

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Outside of programming (which more often frustrates me than makes me happy TBH), my family makes me happy. It's a great source of joy to just relax and be with my wife and children. I've been trying to get back some balance in life, spending more time AFK, and I pay attention to my health a bit more as well.

I'm not super young anymore (43) and reading about age-related issues like sarcopenia made me realize we really tend to neglect our bodies with our sedentary lifestyle, especially us programmers. My mother has osteoporosis and I see how she struggles just doing basic things. I don't want that for myself, so I've picked up weight lifting as a way to combat those age-related issues, so I can become old in a healthy way. The prognosis is for most of us to live up to 90 or so by now, so I'm not even at the halfway point. But these issues start cropping up at around 50-60.

How do you approach raising kids?

I'm still getting my bearings TBH. My kids are only 3 (going on 4) and 15 months. Raising kids is probably the hardest thing I've ever done.

I don't really know yet if I want to teach them programming. I definitely want to raise them tech-sceptical, when they're big enough, to teach them the dangers of social media and the importance of privacy. If they show an interest, obviously I'd teach them Scheme. It's the perfect language for teaching! But maybe something like Logo first.

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