For the past couple of years I’ve been slowly buying some supplies for camping. Lots of our friends and family love to camp and have been trying to get us to join them. We’ve been doing day trips to meet up with them and do the fun things without having to set up, tear down,Continue reading “First Camping Trip”
Author Archives: Sandy McFadden
Introducing Spartan Stats
Spartan Stats is my first real open source project that I’m releasing. It is a web app which allows you to track a basketball teams stats in real time and has a live view for authorized visitors to see game stats and scores. This was an idea that came about near the beginning of Covid.Continue reading “Introducing Spartan Stats”
Good and busy weekend
As luck would have it most of our weekends have worked out really well to not have both basketball tournaments and dance competitions falling at the same time. This weekend was the exception. Thankfully the basketball tournament is one that we hosted ourselves, so not far from home. The dance competition was in Halifax soContinue reading “Good and busy weekend”
18 years
As a family we have a lot of celebrations throughout the autumn, we added one more this year, and then right into the winter holidays. Out of all those special days today, January 3rd, is my favourite. Today is the 18th anniversary from when Jen and I were married. We never have big celebrations orContinue reading “18 years”
The move to Developer
This past year has been tough, exciting, and brought some big changes. One of the big changes was our adoption of Ezra. The other is the completion of the Developer Apprenticeship program I wrote about previously. As of the first of this month my role switch from Happiness Engineer to Developer became official! That’s theContinue reading “The move to Developer”
Ezra
Jen told me from early on in our relationship that she would like to have ten children, while I told her I’d be happy with three. Like most things in our life we compromised, though she keeps getting closer to her number 😃 This past year has been yet another of ups, downs, and surprises,Continue reading “Ezra”
Beautiful views & eye opening realizations
A couple of my good friends are celebrating birthdays this month. As part of that they wanted to hike Cape Split as a group. Despite living here for a long time, and it being a well known trail I’ve only been out to the point twice before, the first time was just over a yearContinue reading “Beautiful views & eye opening realizations”
Easy task, all gone wrong
Today was the day I was finally going to take care of a task I’d been putting off for a while. Getting the winter tires off my and my daughters car. This is a pretty easy task that I’ve done a bunch, thanks mostly to good friends who loan me their floor Jack and electricContinue reading “Easy task, all gone wrong”
Quarter way through my apprenticeship
Time is flying by, I’m already over a quarter way through the year developer apprenticeship program at work. It’s been fun, exhausting, and rewarding all at the same time. Like all the teams I’ve been apart of so far at Automattic my new team is fantastic. All incredibly smart, dedicated, and willing to give theirContinue reading “Quarter way through my apprenticeship”
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I need to write on my blog. I don’t know what to write. Not really in the mood to write. I’m exhausted pretty much all the time. Here’s a picture of me and our dog.
Sandy McFadden 