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Crushing Charging Challenges: Why Every EV Driver Needs a J1772 Extension Cord

Conquering Range Anxiety on Your Next Family Adventure: Why Every EV Driver Needs a Tesla to J1772 Adapter

What's the deal with the Chevy Equinox EV battery capacity?

The Rivian Purchase Referral Program Gives You Rivian Credit of $750 and Six Months of Free Charging On Your Order from the Rivian Inventory Store

Tesla Drivers Can Save Time and Money with a CCS Adapter

The Best Console Dashboard Accessories for Tesla Model Y and Model 3

The ultimate Tesla Model 3, Y, S, and X delivery guide

I have to stop underestimating my kids

These Tesla Model Y and 3 Floor Mats saved my car from my kids!

The future of cars is electric, and it's already here in Norway

The Golden Age of EV Ownership is about to end

Back to Blogging

Three years and 25,000 miles later, I'm saying goodbye to my Tesla

My baby is turning into a little human. Make it stop

Our society just doesn't care about kids

I can't decide what electric car to get next so I ordered four

Our first family ski trip out west was everything I dreamed of and more

My third kid is teaching me that parenting is just accepting that we're all making it up as we go

My kids are never going to be professional sports players

A perfect parents getaway in Park City

Re-doing my Tesla ski trip drive to Vermont, three years later

We are all Ukrainian

A wonderful winter getaway with family to Stowe

Have we just given up on kids and their parents?

Go watch The Long Way Up now

What I'm looking forward to in 2022

Will we actually be able to ski as a family when the kids are grown up?

It'll be a Blue Christmas, without doing anything this year

A bit long for a Turkey Trot - Running the 2021 Philadelphia Marathon

Running around town with three kids in a Tesla Model 3

Stop waiting, this is as back to normal as it's going to get

What's next for EVs, especially Tesla and Rivian

Our 2021 MacBook Air M1 might be the best purchase of the year

I get my breaks from my kids in California

I'll make a camper of you yet: Camping with the kids

I never imagined starting public kindergarten would be such a big change for our family

My 5 favorite things about remote work

I love my iPhone 13, especially the camera

Our first time flying since the start of the pandemic

Three quarters into my vegetarian resolution

Yes, I’m getting my kids vaccinated as soon as possible

Starting a family tradition in Cape May

Becoming a red badge - my first ten years at Amazon

Learning about the history of where we live

Discovering the importance of community

The Olympics are the worst, but I still love them

It looks like another dark winter is coming

The weirdness of heading back into the office

Some more stuff I did this weekend

Some stuff I did this weekend

My five favorite books of 2021: so far

It's time to invest in your health

Our family trip to Martha's Vineyard made me think we're turning the pandemic corner. Here's why.

Are we finally starting to get back to normal?

Running new neighborhoods

The lost year

How can three kids in the same family be so different? Science.

Fresh Paint: Updating my blog platform to Hugo on AWS S3 and Cloudfront

How to support India during the worst we've seen with COVID so far

Moving in the midst of the pandemic

It's impossible to get anything done and remain calm with kids

How the library became a critical resource for me during COVID

Are things actually any more flexible a year into the pandemic?

Déjà vu and Depletion

How the winter wonderland shows me the things COVID tries to steal from us

Five things COVID brought us that I hope we keep

Looking back at how my Prime Day purchases have helped me stay active and productive at home

Teaching my kids to appreciate the things we already have

Going vegetarian in 2021

I'm going to be stuck at home with three kids for two weeks because no one did anything

Supporting Small Businesses for Small Business Saturday

Should I keep my kids home from school after Thanksgiving?

I'm sacrificing my family Thanksgiving so that everyone can have one next year

Onboarding remotely is a pain, especially for managers. Here's how I'm making it work

What's on my desk? Work from home edition

For the first time in a decade, I'm keeping my phone

My last week of parental leave came too fast

Using an iPad as my primary computer

I am a Peloton believer - my Bike and app review

I'm officially an ultramarathoner - my Wawayanda wonderful Wunhundred 50K recap

The running gear I can't live without in 2020

How to mini-vacation safely during COVID

I’m taking my full parental leave again. This is why.

A reflection on running 1000 km

Ten things I forgot about having a baby

The "power" of family

What a wonderful way to run in Wawayanda

Home until 2021 - How I plan to work and manage remotely for the foreseeable future

Restoring nature in our own backyard

Bonding with a baby when you've got twins already

Now that we can finally go out again, we're choosing not to

10 Reasons to take a quick detour through Nerja on the Costa del Sol

Judge all you want, I'm sending my kids back to daycare

How are any of us supposed to focus right now?

Exploring Washington D.C. on the eve of COVID-19

Living like a local in Austin

Becoming a baker and barista during quarantine

What makes a hospital "baby friendly"?

The worst part of the Corona virus is not going anywhere

Giving birth in the time of COVID-19

Family Time in Wintery Toronto

The mountains are calling and I am legally not allowed to go

Bringing a baby into the post Corona Virus world

Having the sweetest family weekend at Hershey Park

Running through the quarantine

Behind quarantine lines with toddlers

Great Gorgeous Granada

Waiting four years to take my twin boys skiing

Three and a half years old is the best age and the worst

Marbella for the people

The best and worst of running in Central Park

It’s all alright in Alicante

Stop worrying about schedules and sleep times while on vacation

A day in Jolly Ole Gibraltar

Taking the Tesla skiing

Cutting the cord: why I chose the Jaybird Vista wireless headphones over AirPods

Around Ronda, my favorite things about Spain's mountaintop paradise

You could be in Cadiz - What to see and do in Spain's coastal city

My 10 favorite tech items of 2019

The best of Nashville

Never too early - what I learned from a season of three-year-old organized soccer

10 Tips to encourage fitness with kids on vacation

Pull the cord and get to Cordoba soon

See Ya in Sevilla - How we found the perfect things to do with children in Seville

Back in the walled garden - my iPhone 11 review

How sweet it is - My Hershey Half Marathon Race Recap

Running like a pro: My Garmin Fenix 6 Pro review

The joy of running from New Jersey to New York

Truly Professional - My OnePlus 7 Pro Review

No, traveling internationally with kids is not "crazy"

School's back for Tyler

Comparing the camera on the Pixel 3 vs the OnePlus 7 Pro

Don't make me say it again - How to avoid yelling at kids who just won't listen

Why I bought my own email service and stopped giving away my data

Born To Run - How I'm making exercise fun for my three-year-olds

Running is the best medicine for daddy

My favorite running gear - 2019 edition

Like a Phoenix - Hiking Phoenix's Cameback Mountain

I'm done giving tech companies my personal and private data

Phoenix Rising - How I discovered taco, coffee, and craft beer perfection in the hottest place I've ever been

My 10 favorite Tesla Model 3 features

How I learned to embrace the unknown and manage a team without direct experience

Visiting Sao Paulo for the second time for the first time

The best family weekend ever in Washington "ABC" with threenagers

The experience is electric: my Tesla Model 3 leasing review

The loneliness of solo travel

Are my kids growing up in a world without technological optimism?

At three years old, everything I learned about flying with toddlers was suddenly wrong

Was Game of Thrones a travel show all along?

Bridges, castles, horses, bands, and egg buildings - How to have a jolly good time in London with toddlers

Run Britannia - My 2019 London Marathon Race Report

10 ways to improve one on ones - learned the hard way

What to do with two days in Yosemite before the snow melts

No longer open for business - Why it's time for the open office to die

London Calling - Time for the London Marathon

A day at the museum - Why the Natural History Museum is the best day with kids ever

The day I gave up on Continuous Deployments

Around the world with New York Specialty Coffee Cafes

The perfect weekend in Berlin

Move fast and break things or slow as you go?

The 10 best books I read recently for making me a better leader

Why I chose a HP Windows laptop over a MacBook Pro

Teaching toddlers and others that hitting isn't just a phase

Getting real about intensive parenting

10 Parenting Hacks for Raising Self-Reliant Toddlers

The end of a chapter, but not the end. I'm moving over to Amazon

Why I'm sticking with my Garmin SmartWatch over the Apple Watch

Twelve tips for soon to be twin parents

Why I quit Facebook in 2019

A conversation with twin toddlers

Virginia is for Families: The perfect three day weekend in Colonial Virginia

5 Reasons Hiring Managers Need to be Recruiters Too

Where we're going, we don't need servers. Why Serverless is taking over the world

10 ways my toddlers taught me to be a better traveler

How to enjoy Seattle with kids

Reliability at Scale - How to build graceful degradation into applications at massive scale

Five reasons I'll never travel without Google's Project Fi for my phone again

Parents gone Wild: 10 ways traveling without kids is different

How to get ready for AWS Re:Invent

My Pixel 3 XL and iPhone XS Camera Comparison

A layover in Oslo

What it's like to use a Fire Phone in 2018

Mamma Mia! My 20 favorites things to do in Stockholm

Management isn't just people engineering

Breaking Boundaries in the Berlin Marathon

The Best of Porto

Not to Braga but we had a great family time in Braga Portugal

Ready for Berlin?

25 ways to distract a 25-month-old

Surviving the 2-year sleep regression - twice

Climbing the College Campus - What to do in Coimbra, Portugal

25 things my 25-month-old twins cried about today

Exploring Evora, Portugal - What to do in this historical Roman town

What to do with a day with a family in Lagos, Portugal

How I run my blog on AWS

12 ways my perfect trip to Portugal with two-year-olds was picture perfect parenting

Got two days in Lisbon? Head to Belem for the second

How I passed my AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification Exam

The 15 best things to see and do in Lisbon with 36 hours

The 7 most important aspects of my Manager README

The one parenting slip up I'll never admit

‘Toddler Cornhole Race’ Is The Backyard BBQ Game Your Kids Have Been Waiting For

An ode to Anthony Bourdain

I Took My Twin Toddlers On An International Vacation—And You Can Too

The five mistakes I see teams new to Chaos Engineering make

The ‘Toy Drop’ Game Is The Easiest Way to Keep Toddlers Amused and Busy

My wife and I couldn't agree on pacifiers for our twins

12 reasons I picked Portugal for our second vacation with two-year-old twins

This $25 Wooden Xylophone Keeps My Twins Occupied for Hours

How I fell in love with Newark through running

Paternity Leave Wasn't Exactly What I Expected

Extreme Experimentation - How to minimize the feedback loop and deliver software constantly

How I Deal With My Toddlers Loving Day Care More Than Me

5 Reasons I switched to my grandfather's film camera to document my twins' childhood

9 No-Stress Tips For Eating Out With Baby

Raising Northern European Russian Christian Jewish twins

13 Essentials For Traveling With Baby, Tried And Tested By A Dad Of Twins

I am a force of Chaos: Why I practice Chaos Engineering to improve user experiences

What It's Like To Be Treated As The Lesser Parent, According To A Dad

Charleston with Children: my top tips for what to do in the River City

5 Things To Do When Your Toddler Says "No"

Music soothes the savage soul, but can it really soothe children?

8 Ninja Hacks For Surviving A Road Trip With Baby

Questions my mentees ask me

What to do in Park City: the perfect ski destination

Taking the great American car trip

Can Blockchain get kids to do their chores?

A short Q&A on how I got into software development

Hiking through the Valley of Fire - the best hikes and trails

Toddlers are A-holes

Hiking the Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon: The best hikes

A letter to my new-manager self

Reaching for the sky: the best hikes at Zion National Park

My 10 favorite Children's Books: Start practicing your voices

Sending AWS Cloudwatch Alarms to Amazon Chime

My 12 favorite books I read in 2017

I’m raising little conservationists before it’s too late

Hiking Mount Tammany, Dunnfield Creek, and the Appalachian Trail at the Delaware Water Gap in the ice and snow

I'm using Chaos Engineering to monkey with my children

An analysis of SparkJava for IoT Device Control

Measuring Technical Debt and its cost with SonarQube

I stopped giving my kids Christmas presents to teach them charity, gratitude, and appreciation.

Reflections on 2017: a tough year in the world and our entry to toddlerhood

What's in my bag - 2017 edition

Please stop quitting software development! We need your help.

Am I feeding my kids enough? Parental food anxiety is real.

Taking a break in Breckinridge: What to do with a weekend in ski paradise

Crushing it in Chicago: My Marathon Recap

My gadget museum

The perfect road daytrip to Zion National Park from Las Vegas

My 2017 Running Gear Guide

A weekend of food, craft beer, and beaches on the Delaware Shore

Technology has changed, but is it for the better?

Making the most of Chicago with kids during the marathon

My grandfather died. This is how I'm trying to explain it to my kids

Will run for beer: running the Dogfishhead 8K

Beer, beaches, and babies in Portsmouth, NH

I survived a 12-hour road trip with two toddlers, so you can too

A twin pregnancy; my experience of twins with an IUGR

Amsterdam with kids? You can do it!

Reflecting on my running lifestyle during the 2017 Newport Liberty Half Marathon

What to do for a perfect day in Fläm, Norway

The top things to do in Bergen on a sunny day in Norway

I'm giving my kids a crappy car for their first and everyone should too

The best things to do in Geiranger, Norway, the most beautiful place on earth

Is chivalry dead? Not dead yet.

At the top of the world above the Arctic Circle in Honningsvag Norway

I am a software developer and I'm keeping my children away from technology

The 7 perfect things to do in Trondheim, Norway with a day

The best things to do with a sunny summer day in Alesund Norway

The 10 things strangers ask about my twins

What to do in Eidfjord, Norway in a day

United nearly ruined our first vacation with twins

Don't be a stranger to Stavanger, Norway

My thoughts on the Google "diversity" manifesto

I took my 1-year-old twins to Norway. Here's what I learned.

What kind of father do I want to be?

The 10 ways I'm showing my boys what a real man does

The British are Running: Exploring Boston on Foot

A fairy tale wedding on Mackinac Island

A year already? Life lessons from the first year of fatherhood

Every kid should have to suffer through a few bad jobs

Killing it in Killington, VT

Traversing the beer scene in Traverse City, Michigan

Even Abraham Lincoln was parent-shamed

Why is no one talking about the Plitvice Lakes - Croatia's Wonder of the World?

Breaking4: How Nike inspired my lofty sub 4 hour marathon goal

This summer, skip the toys and take a family vacation instead

The four things I did to reduce my half marathon pace by 2 minutes a mile for the Brooklyn Half Marathon

Why is my baby in daycare always getting sick?

You're going to love Lake Bled

The perfect beer tour in the Finger Lakes

Software developers need to act more like parents with Artificial Intelligence

The best of Europe in Zagreb, Croatia

You are keeping your kids up too late

Singapore should be on your bucket list for these 25 reasons

Your child may be the first human to live to 150

A run out in the woods

A study using data to find the 10 best toys to calm down infants during a tantrum

The 15 ways to have the perfect summer day in Rovinj, Croatia

The 20 definitive things to do in Hong Kong

10 ways becoming a father made me a better manager at work

The bizarre things I saw on my wacky April Fools Day run

How I took 10 minutes off of my half marathon PR - Montclair Bread Company Baker's Half Dozen Race Recap

The 10 most Hygge places in NYC

7 things to do before traveling with infants - according to Drake and Leslie Nielsen

25 amazing things to do in and around Las Vegas if you don't like gambling or shows

10 baby products for the first 9 months that are worth their weight in gold

Why we picked Norway for our first trip with our babies

What parents can learn about emotional investment from dev/ops

What I learned about the growth mindset from 400 interviews and how it’s helping me raise my kids

George Washington, protector of religious refugees

Give me your tired, your poor, well not all of them!

Talking with TheNewFamily Podcast about data driven parenting

The 5 best breweries for parents in Northern New Jersey

8 Lessons in parenting from Agile Scrum training with master Ken Rubin

The 5 best child, infant, and stroller friendly hikes in Northern New Jersey

Parenting in 2020 — according to CES

You need more sleep in 2017

Time keeps on ticking: Getting the most out of time with your kids

Why I run in front of my babies

When you coming home dad? I don’t know when, but we’ll be together then: Traveling without kids

I’m so big in Canada right now 🇨🇦🍁🏒

Turkey with twins: finding the true Thanksgiving spirit

Not a vacation: lessons from six weeks of solo paternity leave

What to do when you run out of children’s songs

Brewing between bottles and diapers: The humorous, definitive guide to brewing with infants

How to travel with twin infants, toddlers, and a dog, and remain sane

Hacking my infant twins’ sleep with machine learning and data science

How to choose a daycare

Dad on the Run’s first half marathon with twins: Runner’s World Half Marathon Race Recap

I bought my mother in law a Chromebook and it might have saved our marriage

More than the daddy blues: Paternal Postpartum Depression

My first week of solo paternity leave with twins

Traveling with three month old twins is possible!

I’m raising my infants in a brewery

Brooks Ghost 8 Running Shoe Review

How I used A / B testing to hack my kids

Mizuno Wave Inspire 12 Review

Kanban and Agile saved our house

Don’t let your kids grow up to be Olympians

New Moms, go get your groove back!

Baby steps

I yelled at my baby, and it was a turning point

Pokemon Go taught me to be a better father

My baby stopped breathing

Introducing the Pokemon Go Half Marathon

How managing software development prepared me for raising children

Essential lessons the first week working with newborns at home

How to Train for a Marathon with Twins

Back Off Mommy Mafia

The Good, Bad, and Ugly: What I’ve Learned in the First Two Weeks of Fatherhood

Things that Terrified me During the First Twenty Four Hours of Fatherhood

Why I’m Taking My Full Paternity Leave, and You Should Too

Becoming a First Time Father, Twice

Why You Need to Party in Ljubljana for Slovenian Statehood Day

Propeller Festival 2016

The 10 Marathon Signs I’m Sick Of Seeing

Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon 2016 Race Recap

The Art of Running in the Rain - Novo Nordisk New Jersey Half Marathon Race Recap

San Diego Beercation - Day Four

San Diego Beercation - Day One

San Diego Beercation - Day Three

San Diego Beercation - Day Two

Your San Diego Beercation Begins Now

Rutgers Unite Half Marathon 2016 Race Recap

Peak Burger: Third Wave Craft Burgers and You

Philadelphia Hot Chocolate 15K Race Recap 2016

Sleepy Hollow Half Marathon 2016 Race Recap

How to Leave a College Career Fair with a Job

Beercationing in Montreal and Quebec Part 2: Quebec

Beercation in Montreal and Quebec City

Gridiron 4 Mile Run Race Recap

How to “Do It All”

Cars are only for old people now apparently

Why Your Company Needs to Think Platform First

My Life Experience Bucket List

Account Linking with OATH2, Alexa, and Nest

Take a Hike in the Ramapo Mountain State Forrest

My Running Gear Kit for 2016

New York City New Year’s Eve Midnight Run Race Recap

2015 New Year’s Resolution Check In and 2016 Goals

An Evening at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Potentially America’s Best Restaurant

Building an Arduino Binary Clock

Food-Crawling Around St. Marks Place and the East Village of New York City

The Best Things I Ate in 2015

How to Plan a Year of Running

Controlling a GoPro via REST APIs

My Favorite Books of 2015

Hiking the Ramapo Reserve in Bergen County, NJ

How to Control your Nest Thermometers with Alexa on the Amazon Echo with AWS Lambda, the Nest REST API, and Alexa Skills SDK

Should managers write code?

2015 Philadelphia Marathon Recap - The Race of Brotherly Love

Give me your tired, your poor, well not all of them!

What it's like to eat at Belfast's Michelin star rated Dean's EIPIC: A Photo-Tour

Race Recap: Philadelphia Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon 2015; Rocking in the City of Brotherly Love

2015 Hershey Half Marathon Race Recap - The Sweetest Race on Earth

Inaugural Beat the Blerch East Half Marathon - NJ 2015

What to do in Dog Friendly Portland, Maine

Race Report: Innagural Rock ‘n’ Roll Brooklyn Half Marathon

Where to Get Your Taco Fix in Houston, TX

What to do in the historical and Game of Thrones famous city of Dubrovnik, Croatia

What to do with Fido in Dog Friendly Portland Maine

The Perfect Day in Hvar, Croatia

The Best Food and Music at Governor’s Ball

How I Plan Vacation

New York 80X20, the Craft Beer Initiative that is Rightfully Doomed to Fail

The best breweries in Brooklyn and Queens for craft beer

Brooklyn Half Recap

Belfast Without Fasting

Belfast on the Run

Running with an Injury

Running with Fred

Why I Love Working for Audible

My 2015 Running Resolutions

My Year as a Runner

Singapore's Must Visit Hawker Centers

What's In Your Bag, Tyler?

My 5 Essential Tools for Daily Work

What does code quality mean?

Audible.com Employee Culture

How I learned to stop lighting the LAMP and embrace Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

I'm Tyler Lund, Software Developer at Audible, and this is how I work

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