[dddgghhbbfblk]

This is really cool. With a newborn in the home I've been really thinking about projects like this recently. When you have a newborn things are so busy and hectic that it's easy to get overloaded and for things to slip through the cracks so I've been really wishing I had a dashboard like this somewhere to remind me that we need to take the dogs out or show how long it's been since the baby last ate or whatnot.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

You have a newborn, and you think spending time installing and maintaining something that displays the calendar around the house is a good use of time?

[BoxFour]

Doesn’t sound that crazy to me.

With many newborns there’s a lot of "hurry up and wait" if you’re able to be on parental leave (or just on the weekends). They sleep a ton. Honestly, I’ve never been more caught up on movies or TV than during those overnight newborn shifts with my first child.

The real hectic "I have no free time" era, at least for me, came after that: Toddlers require (and you should try to appreciate giving them) all your available time.

[bluGill]

That depends on how much time it takes. Newborns grow up fast, in a few years he (she? - I'll assume he for convenience, adjust if you have better information) will have a kid needing to get between soccer and violin (or some such things). If there isn't too much effort he can find time for this project and it will help his life to have it all working.

We have no way of knowing, but it would not be at all a surprise if he has more kids in a few year - which makes accurate calendars around the house even more useful as everyone needs to know what everyone else is doing.

[dddgghhbbfblk]

I said "thinking about"... I have been thinking about many other things I wish I had time for too, like "getting eight hours of sleep" or "responding to a growing pile of emails that need attention".

And while your rude, completely unnecessary comment displays a lack of the basic human empathy that may be necessary to understand this, it is precisely during a time when my life and home are so busy and chaotic that I would most appreciate having them be better organized, yes.

But how dare I simply leave a comment saying I liked a project that someone shared.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

> displays a lack of the basic human empathy

You don't know what goes on inside my mind, you're just guessing.

I have a 4 year old and my point was that the trade off of having a calendar on the wall in exchange for having to learn hardware and maintain services is absolutely awful. Of course everybody wants their life more organized, but my point was this project actually costs you something a lot more important. I have an infinitely long list of things that I'd rather do than adding services for myself to maintain, in exchange to having a calendar on the wall, for example actually spending time with my kid.

I empathize with you even though you don't appreaciate it.

So, I'm not going to say "sorry" because I don't think I did anything wrong. Instead I'll say that if I had known you'd take it that badly I wouldn't have said anything.

[TurdF3rguson]

It wasn't that rude, it sounds to me like someone needs a nap.

[orsorna]

From what I can tell, the author (of the submission)* can afford being a multimillionaire buying thousand dollar displays and moving into extremely expensive detached housing, so his efforts don't apply to us breeder peon.

That being said, I see a lot of COTS products that fill this niche but all have privacy issues sadly.

[hawksley]

We have two kids under three and yes, it has helped a lot with managing the cognitive burden of everything we have to keep track of.