Happy Mothers' Day!

![Typical mother](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcZyav5fNMYAPYGkLMgB8Fi2rrG1wH8tCuUnffyFvz2Hu/girl-3316342_1920.jpg)
*You can do anything, Mom. [Source: Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/illustrations/girl-confident-portrait-cartoon-3316342/)*

I am not a mother, not even a woman. But I do code. My job is writing code: transforming people's needs into abstract requirements, putting them into perspective of the system I've been given to work with, proving it's not available yet, implementing so that I can no longer prove it, ensure nothing gets broken, deliver, verify delivery. I improve working comfort, culture and style. I divide big problems into manageable chunks and turn them into abstract requirements, then see above. I fight technical debt.

And I'm a husband, and I'm a father, and I'm a brother, and I'm a son. My friends are partners, parents.

A while ago (mere eight years ago) I met mothers-to-be of children around the age of my daughter-to-be at a time. Three years ago we created a project together to get them busy with something new: a coding course for them. We called it "Kury kodowe". "Kura" means hen. "Kura domowa" is a "house hen" - "housewife". I think they all were stay-at-home moms then. Add some fun with the words, add "kod" - "code", turn into plural and presto! "Kury kodowe" - "Code Housewives". We had some fun, girls got bored, we stopped. Recently I got back to it and started transforming it into a different programming language. I don't think I will be translating that one into English but I would like to have a space where I could share my tech ideas, thoughts, findings, experience.

I used to publish such things on my main Steemit account, @breadcentric and recently as @kurykodowe. @codelikeamother is my new account for that purpose, to be used in English.

![mom-48958_1280.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmR7QExsY7t2rdvDNHp9yTHfrwhfxG4Zc3Gs4Q7mT9EsvJ/mom-48958_1280.png)
*Yes, you. [Source: Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/vectors/mom-text-flower-font-mother-48958/)*

I looked for the name for a month or so and struggled. "Kury kodowe" did not translate into anything obvious. I looked for "like a mom" and found ["When Did Looking “Like a Mom” Become an Insult?" by Sonya Benham on Babble](https://www.babble.com/beauty/when-did-looking-like-a-mom-become-an-insult/). Next thing, who remembers the add below?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJQBjWYDTs

Why "like a girl" is treated like an insult? Why is "like a mom" same? Why "like a mother" is understood as a short for "like a motherducker"? Duck this. My work colleague has an awesome T-shirt: "code like a girl". I decided to try and play on the same theme. Mothers are incredible. Most of ones I know have every needed soft skill and quite a few competencies to become really good at way more things then I could even think of. For instance programming.

In Polish there is a clear distinction between writing to a man or a woman, so I started writing in a way that is clearly intended for a female only audience. It doesn't matter to if it is my audience or not, I wouldn't like it however to sound like if I wanted to write to a male only audience and this is my way to express it. In English we don't have such a thing, I'm afraid. That said I always try to present my technical knowledge and opinions as if I tried to share some knowledge and as if I had to learn from it right after I would forget it (this has helped me in the past). If you find my content useful - please get back to me. If you don't - please get back to me. If you have questions - please get back to me. If you clearly see I don't understand something - please get back to me.

In the past I did share a number of posts about technology:
* I wrote a Minecraft mod: Part [0](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-0), [1](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-1), [2](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-2), [3](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-3), [4](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-4), [5](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-5), [6](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-6), [7](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-7), [8](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-8), [9](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-9), [10](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-10), [11](https://steemit.com/programming/@breadcentric/i-shall-write-a-minecraft-mod-day-11)
* I wrote an unfinished series on setting up a software project infrastructure that I never finished but will eventually have to: Part [0](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@breadcentric/software-development-infrastructure-part-0x00-introduction), [1](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@breadcentric/software-development-infrastructure-part-0x01-setting-things-up-docker), [2](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@breadcentric/software-development-infrastructure-part-0x02-setting-things-up-gitlab) and then I tried to set up Jenkins, I broke down and spent every single day since then crying in a closet
* And others

What I will be writing about that I haven't mentioned:
* every day security, the way I understand it
* learning tools for kids
* maybe some tutorials - we'll see

You can always visit my main main account, @breadcentric, where I usually write about bread and baking. See you around!


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