Name: BDD--嬰兒驅動發展，由Allison McMillan主持｜2019年JSConf EU大會 (BDD - Baby Driven Development by Allison McMillan | JSConf EU 2019)
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I never expected having a child to change my identity in so many different ways.

動名詞

I really love working, and I love being a developer, I love being an engineering manager.

I work at GitHub as the engineering manager as well for another team that is working on

a secret product, re-imagining fun and collaboration in code.

I'm also a Mozilla tech speaker, on the word of Ruby Together, and I run a podcast about

If you want to chat about any of them, please come and find me.

I've been a community organiser, a mentor, a developer, an organiser, a COO, and then,

This talk is going to have a lot of pictures of him.

Devon's a full-blown toddler now and joined by his sister, Layla who is just over a year.

Today, I want to talk about the challenges people who are parents and developers face,

as well as what some solutions are, and how these solutions can help a company and an

So, when Devon was about five months old, I felt like I was losing my mind.

I had been back at work full-time for a while - if you want to hear a separate rant, talk

to me about maternity leave in the States - and after a particularly bad week of very

little sleep at night, and having a really challenging workweek, I just really wasn't

How was I going to keep learning all the things I needed to be learning while being a great

Could I even be a good mom and a developer or was this industry just truly not for me?

If I've being really honest, there's been many times in the past four years where even

though I loved tech and I loved code, I thought about how nice it would be just to go and

I seriously thought about leaving the industry.

You see these cute pictures of parents orchids on Facebook or Instagram, but it's not always

like that, and, for me, in the early days, it definitely usually wasn't like that.

It was also amazing, and all-encompassing.

Based on what I was experiencing, I created a survey to ask parents a few questions about

this issue, and what I found out from reading hundreds of surveys, is there are some real

In an industry, the values - in a industry that voles open-source contributions, parents

So let me take a second to describe a typical day from a few months ago.

So Devon wakes up around seven, Layla already around 730.

A lot of parents say it's closer to 5.30 or six.

I would nurse Layla while Devon has a glass of milk and by 8.15, we really need to get

moving, brush teeth, make car breakfasts - you can feel free to judge.

We're not morning people, car breakfast is what works very well for us.

And at 8.45 or nanny comes which is already a huge privilege.

By 9.25 I was home pumping breast milk while eat breakfast and starting to check emails.

I would jump into the work day, do that punctuated by a few more breast-milk pumping breaks until

Then I race out the door, grab Layla, put her in the car, from 6.15 to 7.15, we do dinner

for the kids, sometimes try to cook our dinner, Bath time, bed tile, et cetera.

From .45 until around nine, we finish cooking, we eat dinner, clean up, prep food in bottles

for the next day, jot down childcare notes, talk about pertinent household stuff we need

to, usually relax for like 30 minutes, and then we head to bed.

Now, fortunately, this was a day from a couple of months ago.

I got a lot more time back in my day as I weaned my daughter and didn't need to pump

Dropping the number of times that I had to pump in a day felt amazing.

I had more time to concentrate and didn't have to go through this huge context-switch

And I mention this tangent because pumping breast milk was mentioned in over half of

surveys for mothers and their answer is about company provision or issues they faced.

Now, the only time in that whole day that I would have to do any code for myself would

be those last 30 minutes that I have to relax, and even if I gave up that little bit of self-care

time, my brain is so tired by then, I wouldn't get anywhere fast.

And if you think about this in terms of code challenges that often need to be completed

outside of your work day for new jobs, parents may have to spend the whole weekend just working

It also means depending on our partner or spouse to do the childcare and not seeing

This might not seem like a big deal, but when you're already working full-time, it really

This is even more challenging if you're a single parent.

If you're a accessible parent, then you're likely paying for weekend childcare to get

Another issue mentioned was being able to stay sharp.

Developers live on coffee and solve really hard problems.

If you are a nursing mom, you're probably getting significantly less sleep, and you

can't rely on those cups of coffee to keep you going.

A recent study from baby care found that over 40 per cent of parents with babies aged zero

to six months only get one to three uninterrupted hours of sleep per night.

Parents lose a total of 44 days of sleep in their child's first year, and a newer study

found that parents are sleep-deprived for six years after they have a kid, and I'm like

really selling this parenting thing right now!

It's hard to keep a clear mind and solve hard problems when you're not getting uninterrupted

sleep, and you don't get the weekend to catch up or recharge.

A parent wrote, "Sometimes, the last thing I want to do or even have time to do when

Gone are the days of no responsibility and doing whatever I like when I get home.

Finding a couple of hours to work on a personal project or pick up something new is hard,

especially when trying to help out my other half who is also tired."

When I asked if having children helped or hurt their career, only a small portion of

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