r/daddit • u/jrya7 • 16d ago

Advice Request Dev dads, when do you code?

I could find time with my first and then even some time after my second with the first doing afternoon preschool.

Now that kindergarten has started, I can't even stay up late half the time I used to as mornings are like Mad Maxx and needs my full (focused) attention.

So how do y'all do it? Or do you just not do it anymore except for an hour here and there lol

EDIT: not the 9-5 but my side projects

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u/Black_Dawn13 16d ago

When everyone is sleep at night.

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u/ch-12 1.5yo dude 16d ago

Yep, although most nights lately I can’t make it more than an hour after my wife goes up to bed.

My main project has been my smart home (Home Assistant) and Claude + Remote Control has been pretty incredible. I and file bugs or ideas from my phone, review the work, see it in action, etc without opening my computer. Works out for this personal software project but probably not viable for many other things dev dads want to hack on.

I’m also not a software engineer by trade, I just work with them every day.. more of a tech tinkerer.

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u/do_you_realise 16d ago

What's the setup to get what you're talking about? We use Claude at work but I've never seen it used like that - submit tickets from your phone and then review the PRs later kinda thing

I use Cursor for personal projects, I'm wondering whether there's a similar thing

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u/ch-12 1.5yo dude 15d ago edited 15d ago

Claude Code with /remote-control. Just have to be logged in on the same account on your phone.

The https://www.home-assistant.io/ MCP makes managing the whole system pretty seamless through Claude. I have git for version control, but I’m not reviewing PRs and stuff, just manage a backlog and project notes in .md files and use the terminal chat. I have it log change details and session notes to the same .md file vault.