<story><title>How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer</title><url>http://smo.nu/how-to-have-healthy-relationships-as-a-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Personally, I don&amp;#x27;t think that having healthy relationships as a developer is much different than having healthy relationships as anyone else. As with any other technical job, it can be hard to explain exactly what your job is, but a bit of humor and an ELI5-style explanation goes a long way.&lt;p&gt;One thing specific to programmers is the ability to whip up a little program to help people. Someone spends an hour every day retyping lower-case data in uppercase? Take ten seconds and write them a program. Someone complains how they always forget to shut down their computer and waste electricity? Write them a widget to shut it down at 1am each night.&lt;p&gt;When I take a bit of time to write programs for people I care about, people are usually very grateful and vastly overestimate the difficulty of whatever I just did. As always, relevant xkcd: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xkcd.com&amp;#x2F;1425&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;xkcd.com&amp;#x2F;1425&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer</title><url>http://smo.nu/how-to-have-healthy-relationships-as-a-developer/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bowmessage</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s it like to date &amp;#x2F; be married to another programmer? I&amp;#x27;ve always wondered if this would help or hinder the relationship.</text></comment>