Overview I play in a weekly head-to-head categories hockey league on Yahoo Sports. This means that every week, you’re matched with an opponent and compete in a variety of categories (ex. goals, assists, etc). It doesn’t matter how much you win by in each category, but the goal will be to win the most categories every week. When preparing for matchups I used to manually calculate expected production from my players to optimize matchups in Excel....
Overview I created a webapp to map licensed childcare facilities for parents in the Fraser Health region of BC. Parents can intuitively search for licensed daycares near them and check Fraser Health’s inspection reports. The data is pulled from the Fraser Health Childcare database It’s used by new parents looking for daycares for their little ones. Parents can look at health inspections from Fraser Health and do further research before enrolling their child....
New Year, New You 🍾 In 2022, I had a year of Exploration. The overarching theme of adventure was helpful in guiding my decisions throughout the year. This year, my theme is Creativity Creativity 🖊️ Building on top of last year’s exploration into different areas of life besides software engineering, I want to create more this year. I had two creative projects that were put in the backburner as well that I’d like to make some progress on....
Year of Adventure At the start of this year, I was excited to spend some time away from the rat race. I had taken a voluntary work sabbatical to focus on my newborn. I had a year of exploration. ✈️ Goals I had many goals during my time off work. There’s finally time to start doing some side-projects that I’ve always wanted to do! But, being a stay-at-home parent is truly a full-time job, especially at 6-18 months when their little minds are soaking in everything....
Howdy! The struggle is real to keep a consistent schedule. I’m trying to carve out time for different areas of life but baby takes up almost the whole pie each day (as expected). But I’m still chugging along in the background for other things. 😊 Currently having mild success by working on personal goals for at least 30 minutes a day. ⏰ If you’re not where you want to be in certain projects, remember that it all takes time....
Hello again! I feel like it’s only been a week since the last update. Oh how time flies. 🪁 This month, I’ve taken a side-quest and started working on a problem I’ve had as a parent. I noticed that it’s difficult to find child-care centers in Vancouver. Some issues: There’s a general lack of information online via search Some centers don’t have websites and aren’t even on Google Maps 📍 Fraser Health’s website is hard to navigate So I’ve been developing a web app to find day-care centers around Vancouver....
Hi there! Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter. Glad to have you here 👋 This has been a busy month. My last day at work was at the beginning of this month, and since then life has felt like a step function. Before, I was mainly focussed on wrapping things up at work while my wife was focussed on the baby. Since I quit, the roles have been reversed as she’s easing back into work and I’m caretaker during the workday....
What is a Theme? If you don’t know what a theme is, I recommend you watch CGP Grey Basically, the TLDR is that instead of New Year’s resolutions, a theme is an aspect that you want to focus on for the year. It can be flexibile and adapt to your situation throughout the year, but provides a central idea to nudge yourself towards. My theme for 2022 is Exploration Exploration 🤠 In the last couple of months, I had two significant changes in my life:...
Hello friend. Nice to meet you! 👋 I’m Lamont, and welcome to my blog. No matter who you are, and how you found me, I’m happy you’re here and I can say hi 🙂 In this post, I’ll give a little background on myself and why I started this project. Why am I here? I’m starting this blog mainly for two reasons. I want to build a rapport online to build relationships with potential clients I always had a passion to teach and this is a great outlet to share my struggles and learnings, in case it helps anyone else who’s going through similar issues Background I have 8 years of experience as a software engineer, and have worn many hats over that time....