Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up?
All the responses here indicate the same &quot;la dee da having kids is so wonderful that you don&#x27;t even miss the other stuff.&quot;  Fuck that.  I have kids and I totally miss being able to stay up all night working on stuff and exploring new technologies, feeling like the world is going on without me.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I&#x27;m a passable dad, spend as much time with kids as possible, take them out to libraries and parks and try to teach them things.  But in the back of my head most of that time I&#x27;m still lamenting the things that I&#x27;m not able to do and that I&#x27;ll probably never be able to accomplish, wondering if this was the right decision.  But it seems almost heretical these days to admit that.  I can&#x27;t be the only one, right?