Looking forward to his blog posts. We all know his dad's blog has jumped the shark.

:P

Hearty congrats.

Congratulations Jeff. :)

Congrats! That's fantastic.

Congratulations :-)

Congrats!!

Congratulations, Jeff! He looks just like you!

I'm expecting some fun error messages from this one :D

Congratulations! Just wait til he throws up an exception for the first time or dumps a core file into his diaper. I really can't imagine life without my four-week-old, and I'm sure you'll feel the same very shortly. Again, congratulations.

Always have loved you blogs, Jeff. But now there's 2 to tango!!!
Well, the more, the merrier...

Congratulations :)

Cong. Good jobs for you both.

Congrats Jeff.

It should feel great on getting return value '0';

Wonderful - best post ever!
Congratulations!

Congratulations! I've seen three of my kids being born, so I can say from experience that it never gets old!

Congratulations Jeff. :)

Congratulations - was quite exciting watching your Twitter feed last night, brought back a lot of memories of when our kids were born. The adventure has only just begun, sir.

Have you assigned Henry a GUID yet?

Congrats!, just hang on the first three years.... it gets worse as they grow :D

Hope the best for the three of you

Congrats! Spend as much time with him as you can (and some that you can't). You won't regret it. I love every moment with my 2 year old.

Billy

Congrats!

Congratulations!

That's fantastic news Jeff. Congrats to the 3 of you.

Congratulations Jeff. I hope all is well. You get a free pass from criticism today. :)

Jeff,

Have you read "The Happiest Baby on the Block" yet? If not get it, and hopefully it will work for you like it did for us. The strategies in there don't everyone, but are like magic when they do.

Congratulations too.

Russ

I hope you will be getting him one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/kids/59cc/

Jeff, what are you doing blogging and taking silly pictures on such a day ??? :) Congratulations !

Congratulations Jeff. I'm so happy for you and Betsy. I love his first tweet.

-.-. --- -. --. .-. .- - ..- .-.. .- - .. --- -. ... --..-- .--- . ..-. ..-. --- -. - .... . -. . .-- .--. .-. --- -.-. . ... ... .-.-.- -.-- --- ..- .-. -.-. .--. ..- .--- ..- ... - --. --- - --- ...- . .-. -.-. .-.. --- -.-. -.- . -.. .- -. -.. .-- .. .-.. .-.. -... . .--. . --. --. . -.. .- - .---- ----- ----- ..-. --- .-. - .... . .-. . ... - --- ..-. -.-- --- ..- .-. .-.. .. ..-. . .-.-.- ..- -. ..-. --- .-. - ..- -. .- - . .-.. -.-- --..-- ... -- .. .-.. . -.-- ... -.-. .- -. -. --- - -... . -.. --- -. . .. -. -- --- .-. ... . --..-- ... --- .--- ..- ... - ...- .. ... ..- .- .-.. .. --.. . --- -. . .... . .-. . .-.-.-

Congrats

Yeah, that book's a real page turner by the looks of it...

Congratulations to you and your wife...

i++;

Congrats Jeff!!!!!

Congrats! Loved the twitter idea.

Congratulations!

Lucas mentioned the exceptions and core dumps. Good advice, but you really need to be ready for the buffer overruns and, er, stack overflows he's going to produce. Keep everything washable, and wash everything often.

Help your wife recover, then get on with enjoying your time together with Henry.

while (this->alive()) { this->copy() }
Congrats :)

Congrats!!!

You bringing the little guy to Mix so we can take him to his first strip club...er...Open Spaces? ;)

Phil

Congrats Jeff!

We'd like to read him soon as well, or maybe now you'll start quoting him instead of every other person around ;)

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Whatever you do, when the process becomes unresponsive (or just talks back), don't kill the process. much different results in real life than on a computer. usually locks you up.

Congrats Jeff!

Congrats. :)

Congrats :)

Congratulations Jeff!!

Congratulations!!

Please take time off from posting and coding! ;-) There's time for that, this moment will go by so fast that it's hard to believe. Take the time to enjoy your new life. It's all different now and much more important than anything computer related.

Congratulations, Jeff. We forgive you in advance for the lapse in your schedule.

Enjoy your first stack overflow.

Congrats! Got myself two of those ;-)

Congratulations! Great book choice. However, don't mean to be the party pooper but what if Henry doesn't *want* to be a programmer? Not even Erlang (eyes still sore from Y-Combinator today)

hi jef,
Congrats let your son make you as proud as you made your father

Congrats Jeff! He looks just like you. :-)

Many congratulations to all three of you. :) Wishing him well in whatever he chooses to do!

HenryAtwood.com is AVAILABLE! Let's see how long this lasts... muhahaha!

Congrats!

Congrats!!

Congratulations! We have a four month-old "process" and as Charlie stated so well with his Morse code above, our processors have certainly been pegged at 100%. I'm not complaining though, he's been a joy for both of us and I'm sure you'll find the same.

Welcome to the world, Henry Burton Atwood! Congratulations, Betsy and Jeff. We are very happy for you.

Life will never be the same, and you would have it no other way.

Get all the sleep you can while he still sleeps, you know, like a baby--you are going to need it.

Congratulations Jeff!

Poor Betsy - two geeks to manage ... :-)

congrats!

Congratulations Jeff! All the best!

Glad to hear this news
Congratulations Jeff!

That was 7 days past the due date!!! okay it was not six to eight weeks so i guess it is okay. congrats jeff. started to worry when i read about performance shell game, sharpening the saw, etc.

congrats man

Congrats & welcome little Level 1 Programmer! :)

Congrats man!

Congratulations !
Don't let him become a lawyer :-)

congratulations for a new independent program ;)

in hebrew its Mazal Tov

http://design-to-last.com

Congrats!

I was actually thinking about your old post the other day, wondering why you hadn't followed up on it and hoping that nothing bad had happened. I find it a bit distressing that I go around thinking about your (then) unborn since I don't have any contact with you, but I guess that parenthood (I have two daughters) can do that to you. :-)

Congratulations and good luck to the three of you!

Congratulations, and well done!

Um, but who said he will become a programmer? ;)

And I thought spawning processes on Windows was slow!

Congrats :)

Congratulations! Keep them coming.

Mazal tov!

Gratz!

Congratulations to all three of you!

As a father of three, where the oldest is now leaving the nest, I'll give you this advice (as others already have):

Spend as much time as you can with your children. The first years never come back, so make sure that you have your priorities straight! Just when you start to know your children, they're flying away!

Congratulations on beginning an epic adventure..

And you thought programming was hard :o)

Hope you are all well.

Congrats Jeff!

Just you wait till he starts at Art College, then you'll know pain :P

Congrats Jeff! I thought you'd name him .NET Atwood ;)

Congrats Jeff! I also became a parent recently (January 7th) and I enjoy every moment of it :).

Congratulations!

Now it's really gonna be 68 weeks for everything Jeff plans to implement. ;)

Congratulations! A wonderful post! I predict his first word will be "void". :)

atwood++;

Congratulations to you all.
Wish you all the best for his future.

> Um, but who said he will become a programmer? ;)
Jeff did!

Congratulations.

Now somebody explain to me why seeing that blog's title made me think "This is probably some pun about childbirth" even though I had no idea Jeff was pregnant? (I thought he was just fat)

Congratulations!

I'm am little bit disappointed you didn't name him Joel, though :-)

All the best wishes from Germany.

Congratulations, and as others have said, PLEASE make the most of it. We here are just strangers, we won't die from less blog posts. Babies only happen once and they change VERY fast.

Having said which, have you thought of starting another blog for personal stuff? It's not that it doesn't interest me - rather the contrary - but I fear that you'll hold back from talking baby here as its supposed to be a "tech" blog.

My Italian congratulations; not very original, perhaps, but very true!

congratulations :-)
Very good and funny post - let's see how much time you will have in the near future for your blog ;-)

Congratulations Betsy & Jeff!

Congratulations!

Looking forward to having more time as you decrease the frequency of your blog posts :)

Now go read my blog to help you get started!

Congratulations !!

Congratulations Jeff and Betsy! May he always be happy and healthy and lucky!

Congratulations, Jeff!

nice one.. what's its pid? ;)

Congratulations Jeff

Congrats dude!

Congrats Jeff!!

Congratulations Jeff!! May he outbest his father :)

Congrats!!

You just both simultaneously won and lost the internet with this post ;)

Congratulations!

Congratulations, best wishes to the three of you! May he grow up to be a happy geek :)

Jeff - all the best for this new adventure!

Debugging a fiendishly complex app is a piece of cake compared to raising a child - but those little ones are SO worth it.

So let there lots of exceptions be thrown in your life from now on!

Thomas

PS Great blog, been reading it for many months now, but it's my first comment

Congratulations :D

Congratulations Jeff..

Gratz Jeff! ;)
[release pool]

Congrats :)

Congrats to you Jeff, and obviously Betsy.

I just about spat my coffee out when I saw the Twitter name, that's classic.

Feel happy for you there man, having a kid is such an amazing adventure everyday.

Congratulations to all three of you!

Watch out for those nappy (diaper) overflow exceptions! ;)

What else to say but "Congrats!"? (o:

Congratulations!!

Congratulations!!!

Congrats!!!

I am a little worried about the decision to make him a programmer though.

Let him choose.

Congratulations! Being a father is the coolest thing ever!

Congratulations!

Congrats dude :)

Congratulations, Jeff and family :)

Congratulations Jeff! Yeah, I'm about to fork the VM myself with my second instance. Actually, forking the VM is what got me into this mess in the first place.

Welcome to the world Henry!

Congratulations!

Congrats jeff! Looks like @rockhardawesome will be the youngest twitterer and blogger ! :D

Congratulations Jeff and family!

When rockhard awesome posts his own first tweet, he can put the comma in: "Hello, world!" :) (the capital W is optional)

congratulations, and I wish you and your family many more happy tweets

Congratulations for the awesomeness!

Congratulations Jeff and Betsy!

BTW, he already looks like you =)

Congratulations to the three of you, but especially the mother.

Congradulations, it must feel GREAT! I'm a "programming type" with a "little programmer boy" @ 3 months and I'll be waiting for your hilarious tips and notes about parenting... as I'm not into blogging-tweeting that much but it will still be interesting to read how other "coding types" tune the parenting process... Cheers to the little boy and his parents!

Congratulations.

Hopefully there won't be many regressions in this new Atwood release. :-)

Congrats Jeff and Betsy

Congratulations Jeff

Congrats, boss!

Congratulations Jeff! =)

Congratulations. Good luck.

Congrats to family!

Congrats, Jeff!

A newborn is like a computer booting up for the first time. It has some BIOS routines built-in, but that's already it. No operating system, no applications. The interesting thing is, the OS doesn't need to be installed, it is "copied by observation". Each adult has already a running OS and children copy these OS functions, one by one, by just observing how the OS of the adult works. A computer that programs itself by just monitoring how the OS on another computer works - what a great concept. Of course the observation and copy code is already in the BIOS.

Additionally to that OS, that is copied anyway, you as a parent can perform further programming, though you cannot just tell what to do as on a PC. You can only "encourage" something to happen... sometimes something will happen randomly out of nowhere... in either case you can later on reward or punish the system. Behavior rewarded will get established within the system, behavior punished will vanish of the system (though occasionally break through again). And hurry up on doing that, as the older the child gets, the FLASH memory becomes more and more of a ROM that cannot be changed anymore (it's like a Flash with unlimited amount of possible reads, but very limited amount of possible writes).

At the age of 12 to 14 the OS will further develop a strong firewall that is going to drop 80% of all your input and the 20% that goes through are stored in the Trash folder and only if you are lucky get restored from there on time before the Trash is emptied.

:-D

Hearty congratulations Jeff!

Does he have a stackoverflow account as well? :)

Nice work, cute kid. Don't let your babies grow up to be programmers. ;)

Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations Jeff !
Even if you don't yet realise it, your no1 priority will shift now, from programming to Henry.
The good news : you will be perfectly happy with that :)

Congratulations - I'll always remember the original post, as it was (by chance) the first thing I read after finding out we were expecting as well. Ours is due a week today...

Cangratulations, man!

*looks for a birthday cake with 0 candles*

Coding Horror 2.0! Congratulations! :)

Congrats! As a father of 3 boys, I can tell you that you have no idea how you life has just changed for the better. Shut off the world for a few days and focus on your wife and son. Savor this.

And, of course, in short order you will find out the true meaning of stack overflow. :)

Congrats Jeff, nicely done. Having been through it twice I can safely tell you that yes, indeed, you owe your wife a debt that you may never be able to repay.

Go take care of your family.

CONGRATULATIONS :D

Congrats Jeff. Henry looks very much at piece with his C++. A good sign i'm sure :)

ooops.. *peace* :)

Awww, sweet!
wonderful stuff.

Congratulations Jeff & Mrs Atwood. re: the pain (just to give the disbelieving men some context) My wife has ridden a motorbike into a fence and had the bones in her shoulder sticking out thru her skin. She said childbirth was worse. Much worse. Good luck Henry.

Congrats man!

Congratulation!

Ah, young parents ... Please note that the first computers that Henry is going to program are his parents' brains. In a very short time, he'll master the set of commands needed to provide him with nutrition, songs, massage, blanket, and even frustrated tears ... I mean, error message. And amazingly, he discovered all that without a single manual, just good old trial and error. Beat that C++!

Enjoy the journey, fellow parent!

@Paulus Lahur

Very true. Some programming parents foolishly think that they are programming the child, and all the while the child is programming them.

Congratulations! Welcome to a whole new era of not having a clue about what to do. :)

Congratu-freakin-lations!

Cool. I had to go and work straight after both of mine were born. Stay as close as you can - you won't regret it.

The second one comes much easier, or at least he appeared to to me!

The first one is off to Siberia with the girl guides this summer. Where did the last 16 years go?

Savour every moment you can get with your wife and child, I missed the first years of both of my kids because I was on the road. You will never get that back, so make sure you have it. Take lots of photographs.

It's an adventure. Even after 16 years for me. Enjoy it.

Congratulations, Jeff! Perfect job, perhaps your best ;)

Remember, this is real time code with little formal debugging instrumentation available.

Congrats!

Welcome to the world, Henry!

Congratulations!
Wishing you every blessing, and it's a lot of fun too!
Tim

Congratulations!

I agree with the sleeping part. It's a new sleeping schedule altogether (waking up every 2 or 3 hours), because of feeding, burping, changing diapers, helping ...

But... It's great (I already have a couple - girl and boy)! :)

Congratulations with this classic "just beyond the project deadline" delivery. Good health, fortune and ofcourse lots of fun to you all.

Congrats!

Congratulations!! to both of you,

Congratulations. Are you going to have a new site called..

Parenting Horror

Congratulations, Jeff! Don't use the task manager with him, though :-)

Congratulations Jeff! I'll be so proud if his first word is "orange" ;-)

Congrats to the 3 of you! Don't worry about him not coming with a manual, who would read it anyway <grin>

RE Childbirth pain. According to one woman I know, gallstones are worse than childbirth. The both hurt in the same KIND of way, trying to put something too big through a tube that is too small. I will tell you that gallstones (and kidney stones) HURT, and they can give you drugs for that that they can't safely give a woman in childbirth

Congratulations Jeff!

Congrats Jeff!
We will wait for a post written by this baby geek ;)

Andrew

Congrats!

Congrats! This is great news!

Congrats, Jeff!

Congrats, for all of you.

Great man, Congrats!!!

Congratulations on your new process! Be sure to upgrade your task scheduler to handle the extra load, and watch out that the new process doesn't hog all your resources!

I've had a kidney stone... nice description of the pain.

Congrats! The first 3 months are the worst. And the best. Enjoy.

Congratulations!!!!!!!

Congratulations Jeff! Felicidades!

Congrats! Enjoy everything, even the bad parts - I'm 9 months down the line myself, and a bad day with Kiera is still better than a good day doing pretty much anything else.

CONTRATULATIONS!!!1!!111!!!!
Watch out for those first couple of core dumps. They are a doozy.

Congrats Jeff! :-)

Congratulations on successfully making babby!

Congrats!

And at least _try_ to get some sleep at night ;)

Single greatest tweet ever. A newborn saying "Hello World!" That's unreal.

Congrats!

My best wishes for the three of you,

"You'll be a man my son"

Warmest regards, Mike

awww! and he's the cutest wittle programmer!

congrats!

Congrats, glad to hear everything went well.

Congratulations!

Congrats to you both.

Congrats!

I believe that congratulations are in order. You were able to spawn 2 wonderful children this past year (Stackoverflow and Jeff v2). Hats off to you.

PS: Try not to drool on the keyboard too much :)

Dude, congratulations!

more to come ???

cya!

Way to go you guys, kids are lots of fun.

Congrats indeed!!!!!!

Congrats - Kids are a blast so long as they don't touch your monitor...

I'd recommend that you head over to http://www.hanselman.com/ (since you're more apt to listen to a fellow programmer) and read all about doing "Baby Signs" with your kid. You won't regret it!

Hey Jeff, there seem to be a lot of programmers procreating recently, myself included. How about a spinoff of stackoverflow for parenting questions? (In that context, a stack overflow is a much different, and much smellier, kind of thing.)

Congratulations! That is one of the funniest posts that I've read in a while.

Congrats Jeff - my wife is due in a few weeks here, I understand everything you're saying.

Best wishes!

Congratulations!

congrats!

Awesome! Congratulations, and condolences on the death of your free time ;)

Congratulations, Jeff and Betsy!!! Someone else mentioned "The Happiest Baby on the Block" but I'm going to mention it again. It's a fantastic book. Helped so much with my two girls. Read it. It's good. It's funny. Totally worth the time and effort. And, heck, it might give you something new to quote in future blog entries.

Congrats man.

I must say though that Cosby does not do a skit. That is a comedy routine and probably one of the best ever.

Congrats, Jeff & Betsy.

I'm not joking when I say, I can see Jeff's face in Rockhard Awesome. :-)

Lovely how you're the kind of parent who's apparently pushing programming on to your child, not letting it choose its path in life. :-/

Congratulations, this is terrific news. I am looking forward to the messages from the new parent process.

MoJo

Congratulations Jeff! Henry is already a spitting image of ya! I'll convince some broad to put up with and marry a nutcase such as myself one of these days. :-)

Congrats Jeff! Welcome to a whole new life as a parent!

Hearty Congratulations Jeff!!!

Congratulations!

Don't blink, you will miss so much.

You're doomed, man! I have one named Henry as well; they're the worst!

Seriously, though, congrats and good luck.

May the force be with you.

Congratulations, Jeff!

Keep that C++ GUI Programming Guide handy... it may help Henry get to sleep.

What a post... Hello World indeed. (How many pointers did he have to use to get C++ to post to twitter?)

Congrats to the fam. Props to mom. It's not an easy job, but the potential ROI is incredible.

Congratulations Jeff and welcome Henry!

Congratulations! Well spawned !

I'm wondering what his first words will be ? Asembler ?

Congratulations! Welcome to the wonderful world of parenting, where spawning a child thread not only provides endless opportunity for testing the theories of GIGO and "overflow" has a whole new meaning!

Congratulations!

Now that your implementation is complete, it is time for the Maintenance phase (that never ends). Some of this Maintenance is viewed as janitorial work... but all of the best Dads need to do it.

I just wonder how you will setup your process monitor for Henry?

Congratulations, big daddy! Make sure that boy doesn't have to phreak phones to get his BBS fix!

Congratulations Jeff!!

Jeff, would you now agree that "Release early and often" is a good advise regarding having kids?

Jeff,

Please don't let this interfere with your blogs; I use them as a constant source of ammunition to assail my managers' stupidity.

I kid, of course.

Congrats!

Congratulations, Jeff!

Congrats!

What a beautiful little boy! Congratulations Betsy and Jeff, and welcome Henry.

Congrats Jeff!

Congrats to you and your family! Parenthood is an awesome experience!

Congratulations, Jeff!

Congrats Jeff! I hope mom and boy are well and continue to be so.

Congrats Jeff. Kids are the best things ever. I have three, and my only son turns 6 today (3/13). As many have said, enjoy the wonderful, exhilirating experience.

That being said... I wouldn't want to read that book at any age! You are sure to keep him unconscious reading that. So that makes you very wise, as "She Who Must Be Obeyed" will appreciate that. Here's a book that my mother read to me and I always loved, and I have read it to all of my children and they love it, too. Tiki Tiki Tembo.

http://www.amazon.com/Tikki-Tembo-Arlene-Mosel/dp/0805006621

He's cute! Congratulations.

Congrats!

Congrats. He'll keep you very busy.

Awesome !!!

Congratulations, its all down hill from here, but it is the best ride at the park.

Congrats!

Congrats!

Congrats!

+ 1 Congrats to you and your wife.

Parenthood = Best.Thing.Ever

Haha, just wait, he'll probably end up being a huge sports jock with absolutely no interest in computers other then myspace.

Congrats!++

Congrats, Jeff! Looks like you're starting him out right! We've got our own coder in hibernation right now, due in August. It's an awesome experience!

Congratulations!

Sleep well these two first months, because you won't again for about a year...

Mazeltov!

CONGRATS!! I've been reading your blog for a few months now and I really enjoy it.

Also, thanks for the heads up on the pain. My wife is due in July with our first child and I am already dreading getting my hand crushed during a contraction with an iron claw.

Gray Fox,
I love Tikki Tikki Tembo too! It seems like very few people seem to know it outside of my family, so I'm amused you know it too. I believe the version you referenced calls him "Tikki Tikki Tembo No Sarembo Chari Bari Ruchi Pip Peri Pembo" or something on that order. I've also heard "Tikki Tooki Timbo no si nimbo bui hui bushi fui pom pom niki nomi acko fui-o." I guess there are myriad versions, and I have fun trying to remember them. :-)

Congrants and welcome to the club.

You'll see that programing is easier :)

congrats!

Just be careful. You may not be able to rollback on your mistakes or throw it away all together.

Great news! Congrats!

Congratulations!
(He's really cute too!)

Awesome! Congratulations! Glad everyone is healthy and happy. When's Henry going to get his first Commodore 64?

Congratulations! He looks just like his Dad! I know he'll be the best thing that's ever happened to you, just like mine was for me. God bless you and your family!

congrats jeff!

how your world will change! (not a bad thing)

My father thought the name 'henry' was terrible...
but I love it.

I think they make drugs for that pain thing now... just saying.

Oh and congrats! In the old days, we used to just be embarrassed by our parents' photos of us growing up. Your kid gets to be embarrassed by photos, movies, blogging, Twitter, Facebook, AdultFriendFinder... oh wait maybe not that last one.

Congratulations Jeff, and welcome to little Henry!

This is very exciting! Glad all went well, minus the screaming butterflies.

GUI diapers != Gooey diapers

Congratulations!

Congratulations Jeff and Betsy!!!
Best wishes!

Congratulations, Betsy and Jeff!!

You are now officially adults. Enjoy these wonderful early years. The only advice I can give that hasn't been yet is this: Don't drop him.

As for Henry: Welcome, little citizen.

Hmm. Voting to close: Not Programming Related!

Just kidding -- many congratulations!

You better get him a Linux box too.

Congratulations.

Pass a nice kidney stone and you can semi-experience the same pain your wife may have!

Fun!

Congratulations!

Best hello world I have seen.

I kept saying hello world when my Abigail arrived 4 months ago but my wife did not get it.

Must... resist... sheepishness..... GAH... "Baaaah!"

Congratulations!

...there, I said it. I'm truly sorry, I couldn't come up with anything more interesting with which to wish you a happy year or so of not being able to focus your eyes for 5 minutes at a time. ^_^

You're a braver man than I. Good luck, and may the almighty power of cheese whiz guide you and protect you from diaper bombs.

Congrats, have you told Richard Stallman the good news?

Best wishes to the family! Welcome to fatherhood. Good name choice, we have a Henry too!

congrats! You will get tyred, wet, dirty, but the joy of a baby will make you forget everything about it :)

And more congrats to your wife (hey, she DID the job!)

Congratulations! Best of luck to all of you...

That little guy looks like a keeper! Best of luck to your growing family.

As a father of two little girls I can attest to the fact that I was not properly prepared for how simultaneously thrilling and disgusting childbirth really is. But all the gore was forgotten when the nurses put my twin girls in my arms. Ten years later, it's been the most educational experience I've ever had.

Like many of the others have said, enjoy all of it. Miss nothing. Be there for every game, play, recital, etc. no matter what the career sacrifice. You'll never regret it. I haven't.

Here's to hoping it's not a zombie process! It should be "sleeping", then "active", and certainly never idle!

Oh, and Congrats!

Congratulations!

Doctor to new mother: "Your baby is so cute!"
New mother: "Thanks, but don't you say that about every baby?"
Doctor: "No, just the ones who are really cute."
New mother: "Then what do you say about the rest?"
Doctor: "'He looks just like you!'"

(I count four of each so far, so let me add a "He's so cute!")

Yey congratulations!

Congratulations Jeff! God bless, I hope he will be a gigantic computer neard!

Good job!

Just remember that you need to run a `renice 20 -p "Henry Burton Atwood"` or else you're going to get into some serious problems.

Of course, chances are you are not the owner of that process so I do hope you have sudo.

Congratulations Jeff & Betsy! He's a handsome little guy!

But c'mon, we're geeks here...where are the rest of his stats? :)

Gratsz!
(That Twitter account is awesome!)

Congratulations you two :)

Congratulations, and God bless!

Congratulations to you both.

A very accurate description of the joys of childbirth there!

Congratulations to you and the wife Jeff!

I do have to put a slight downer on this comment, though. I'm sure you know this already but I just want to comment that one needs to be very careful about sort of expectations can be set even this early on, even unintentionally. If it turns out that he really doesn't want to be a programmer or even involved with IT at all it could make for a very secretly unhappy upbringing.

I have never been a parent, but I have been a child.

Best of luck to you all. I have heard that parenting is one of the most difficult and rewarding experiences a human can have.

Congratulations!

Congrats!

One thing, you sound like a cliche dad who kinda forces his child into following his footsteps. I'm a geek, and proud of it, but everyone should choose their own path.

What if henry turns out to be a jock with no interest whatsoever in computing.

I think the goal of parenting is to raise a good person.

Anyway, I'm just rambling. Whatever happens, I give you my best wishes

Congratulations!. I hope this little guy will be such a great writer as his dad. Congrats again.

Congratulations, that was a great lvl up!

Happy Birthday!

Congratulations Jeff!

Congratulations. May he bring as much joy to you as our little, soon to be one year old, bundle of joy has been for us.

Congrats man! Tip: sleep when the baby sleeps :-)

Congrats Jeff :)
When's he get to start playing rockband?

He's going to grow up to be a skateboarder and it will be HILARIOUS

Congrats Jeff. Kiss your sleep, what little you had of it, goodbye! Have fun.

Good luck, Jeff.

It will be interesting to see if your spawned process actually takes any interesting in programming. I couldn't even get my kid to take an interest in programming with real life Karl the Robot through LEGO Mindstorms. He's a luser to the core.

I hope yours doesn't fit the same mold, because what are people going to do when they're as computer-dependent as they're going to be, but all of us true geeks are long dead?

Congratulations to you and your wife Jeff!
Wishing the newly spawned process a 100 year uptime

Congratulations! Long time lurker posting from the cave for your new one!

Congratulations! And a big well done to the mother :-)

I'm bored waiting for family to show up (flight was delayed), so I made a nerdy character class. Would you believe I've never actually played D&D except for a couple Bioware games?

Henry Burton Atwood
Level 0 Human Offspring
STR: 1
CON: 1
DEX: 1
WIS: 18 (wisdom of children)
INT: 1 (unable to talk implies less-than-3)
CHA: 20 when content, -1 for every consecutive minute that it is not entirely satisfied with life. Returns to 20 the instant it becomes contented again.

Spells:
Banshee's wail (at will until level 3, 2/day until level 10)
Charm person (at will until level 10)
Cloudkill (50 / day until level 5)
Geas (only targetable on mother, father)

Offspring gains one level per year regardless of XP, until level 18.

Offspring will gain one point of STR, CON, DEX, and INT at a rate of 1 point per level for 3 + 2d6 levels.

At level 3, WIS will be reduced to 4 and increase at a rate of 1 point per level for 2d6 levels.

After 4 levels, Offspring will lose CHA at the rate of 1 point per level for 6 + 2d6 levels, then regain charisma for 1d6 levels. Furthermore, beginning at this point the time before application of CHA penalty doubles but the penalty quadruples. So a level 4 Offspring takes 1 minutes for a 1 CHA penalty, a level 5 Offspring takes 2 minutes for a 4 CHA penalty, a level 6 Offspring takes 4 minutes for a 16 CHA penalty, and so on. The Charisma cooldown rate increases at a rate of 1 hour per level -- so after 2 hours of unbroken contentedness, a level 6 Offspring will lose all CHA penalties. At levels 13 through 16, Offspring cannot become content.

At level 4, Offspring gains Tasha's Hideous Laughter (at will). Loses it at level 10.

At level 13, Offspring may multiclass without XP penalty. The combined level is used to calculate current primary stats and spells.

Offspring's alignment must be any Evil from level 1 through level 4, inclusive. Offspring's aligment must be any Chaotic from level 13 through level 18, inclusive.

Taking classes in Offspring comes at a 10% XP penalty for every level beyond the 18th.

When my son was born 8 months ago, I couldn't believe how true the statement of "it will be different when it is your own kid" was.

I had the same experience you had about how blue the sky seemed the first time I went out of the hospital afterward. Everything is different -- it fluctuates from being much brighter than it ever had been before, to being darker at times, too. The ups and downs of being a parent, I guess.

One thing I've noticed is that since becoming a parent, I'm MUCH less judgmental. You want to breastfeed your kid until he's 5? Whatever. Not my kid. Everyone has advice, and I'm sure it works for their kid. But I've found that the best course of action is the one I deem appropriate after spending countless hours upon hours with him, and he's a happy healthy little boy, so I think I'm doing it right.

I'm sure you guys will to. Congratulations, and Henry, the world says "hello!" back!

Congratulations Jeff! Keep up the good work!

Congratulations

Congrats. Something tells me this process will be taking up a lot of processor time.

Congratulations Jeff. :)

Congratulations, Henry.
I hope you are better than I was at your age.

Best wishes,
-Someone, somewhere on earth

Congratulations you two :)

15 years down the line with my daughter I can only say that every second is different, and worth it :)

And, ermmm, shouldn't he be learning C first ???

Many congratulations Jeff. I wish you and your family all the very best. Look forward to reading more about your new adventures!

SS.//

PS> Henry looks a little like he is calculating Pi in his sleep...Go Henry!

Congratulations!

1 Fender Stratocaster: $1100

1 80's-era signature rock headband: $25

Watching your kid grow up to become a rock star: priceless.

Being able to beat him at Guitar Hero 14: even more priceless.

Congratulations Jeff on the new addition to the Atwood family.

Congratulations Jeff and Betsy!

And hello Henry!

BTW: Henry and Betsy are both really good names.

Congratulations!

Congratulations you guys, its both magical and terrifying at the same time - the kid will have root access to you and he is something of a noob, so stuff will go wrong. I found that most of the time you end up laughing at the clever solutions kids come up with when they are confronted with problems.

It does get frustrating when they get stuck in an endless loop though: "why?...why?...why?..."

On the other hand, the feeling you get when you realise that you are the coolest, strongest, most amazing person in his world and you can even do magic tricks, is incredible. He will love his mum, but you will be his dad and - for a while at least - no one can top that. Enjoy it.

Congratulations Jeff!

BTW, I'm a C++ programmer and I particularly don't like GUI programming myself -- which is why I stick with server-side system-level applications.

At any rate, enjoy being a father -- I believe it's one of the greatest gifts a man can ever receive.

Congrats Jeff!

Good to see some projects still make it on time ;)

Congratulations, Jeff!

Not always, but usually on time. Even having children is not 100% reliable.

Congrats

Congratulations and best wishes to all the three of you.

-GB.

Congratulations , and welcome Henry!

as the saying goes...
"I weep for the future"

Good for you.

Best wishes for the future.

On the pain - likened to stretching your lower lip up and over the back of your head.

Congrats Jeff!

Hopefully I'll see ya at MIX 09

Congratulations! Our little programmer is 3 1/2 years old now, and is a bundle of joy and energy and a constant joy and wonder. He hasn't worked all the way through SICP yet, but then neither have I.

Congratulations Jeff, may you have many happy experiences together! :D Don't push programming and computers on him though, chances are he'll chose something completely opposite of what you want anyway...

Congrats!!

Just wait until you have two or more process going at once, and the older one thinks it has a higher priority....oh man.

Or both processes do something unexpected and say that it's from lack of memory..but no need to get angry, dad, let's reboot and forget about it:)

I remember when my first process spawned. My project collaborator was switching out a smelly drive, when, while not covering over the USB port, became the target of the processes self-inflicted defrag - ewww.

And like Stian said, take it steady and don't push...while he may go the opposite way of you as far as learning and job, know this one thing - no matter how opposite nor similar he may be from you, in his mind and heart, you'll always his be his hero.

Congrats to you both!

Jeff-
I have to say- I've been following your blog and the quality of posts has been declining. Please stop posting about dragons, unicorns, opensource, NP complete, babies, and things you don't understand... you're supposed to be a professional.

You need at least ONE of these comments every blog post... right? ;)

Congrats-

Congratulations, Jeff. My wife and I had our inaugural baby deployment a little over six months ago (http://scottonlife.com/solblog/archive/2008/09/10/and-then-there-were-three.aspx) and, like most first-time parents, are learning as we go and having a blast. My one word of wisdom: the first three months are hard and tiring, but rest assured that it does get a heckuva lot easier once they find a good sleep schedule and become more interactive.

I expect that you've already downloaded and installed BabySmash? :-)

Congratulations, Jeff!!
PS: Spare the baby :P

Just wait until you see how much CPU time and system resources that sucker will eat up.

Congratulations, Jeff.

Great!!! just be carefull to log all your tasks with screenshots every birthday!!!

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Jeff and family!

Congratulations Jeff on the newest edition to your family! :)

Congratulations Jeff!

To paraphrase RMS: "It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce—even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a website like Stack Overflow takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of."

Just wanted to echo everyone else's statement: Congratulations Jeff!!!

I know you've heard it a million times on here, but here's one more. Congradulations Jeff. All the best to you and your family!

Congratulations !!!

Is he core dumping a lot?

Congratulations!

Aaaaaaghn, what a cutie!
Congratulations :D

You have to know that all this "programmer from birth" stuff will drive him toward a career in, say, truck driving, or watercolor-based caricature, or pretty much anything as far from programming as possible.

(Oh, and congratulations.)

Congrats!

Congrats :)

Congrats Jeff :)

Congratulations on the timely delivery of your project.

Now clearly you need some help.

http://makememinimal.com/2008/instrucciones-para-cuidar-un-bebe/

Congratulations!
Every child that comes is a blessing from God. Rearing him up is hard, yet will deliver you both enormous satisfaction. Remember also that children are really only borrowed, not yours: the moment he will walk away to start his own adventure in life may look incredibly far away from now, but will come faster than you'd expect.

So enjoy every moment!

Congratulations! You will find you get more sleep if you get Mom to breastfeed, because then you aren't an implementation of the ICanFeedBaby interface. And you will soon discover a few new SOLID principles...

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Congrats Jeff!

Congratulations to the two of you! I became a Daddy 8 months ago and am loving every second of it.

Yawn.

w00t. Congrats Jeff :)

WOOO-HOOO!

Congrats, Jeff! Great stuff.

I once remember reading an article where the writer made a joke about his subject, a famous computer scientist, moving from the world of digital creations to the ultimate analog creation with the birth of his first child. That bothered me, because DNA replication is definitely a digital process, not an analog one."Spawning a new process" is -- by far-- a much better metaphor.

Congratulations, Jeff. You'll never find disruptive context switching more enjoyable than in the form of raising a child.

Well done Atwood (and Lady Atwood).

I have a 3yo and all I can tell you is to go with your gut, not what the manual says... but RTFM ANYWAY!

Also, spend more time with the little tyke than you can really afford... all three of you will MASSIVLY benefit.

dp.

ps AND TAKE MILLIONS OF PHOTOS, THEY CHANGE APPEARENCE ABOUT EVERY 30 SECONDS!

Welcome to the world, Henry Burton Atwood...and can I use Chinese to say hello to you , henry burton? Haha, &#24685;&#21916;,&#36523;&#20307;&#20581;&#24247;,&#19975;&#20107;&#39034;&#21033;!

Congratulations! Welcome to the club of dealing with living, breathing NP Complete problems!

I really can't imagine life without my four-week-old, and I'm sure you'll feel the same very shortly.

Congrats Jeff! Best wishes to you and your family!

I couldn't find a better post for my first comment on your blogs that i've been following for a while now.Congrats Jeff!

Congratulations Jeff and Betsy!

I'll tell Ann Marie (Betsy's former boss at Duke) about the new arrival. By now you'll be starting to realize that he is actually an SDU (sleep deprivation unit), but well worth it and substantially more interesting than software development.

Congratulations Jeff! :)

It's a little known fact that America is the feminised version of "Amerigo" (all continents are feminised - a Latin tradition). "Amerigo" is the Itallian man who discovered the American continent (Amerigo Vespuchie). Amerigo is the masculine Itallian of Americ - from the the German Heinrich. In English Heinrich is known as Henry. So America is litterally "Henry land". And now there's one more Henry in Henry land.

Just a word of warning though - there are some crazies out there. Be careful about how much information you give out on your family and location. There's nothing worse than a predator knowing where your child will be, what they look like, their name and their interests.

Congrads Jeff, don't be sad if he turns into a sportsman instead, best to keep your options open ;)

Do you mean to say that to transfer data successfully, you do not need to pick up one computer and shove it on the other?
Come one, we knew this long long ago, or did we?

Also, I wonder about all the joys of Kid.Exceptional.Raise()
First you will teach him to C#
Then you will him er... lang?
No, you wouldn't like him to C++, since he is J++
Now what's the J++ angle actually? K-DE? Linux? Rebellion!?!?
And how are you going to /(root) for Microsoft(TM) products when he(nry) will immerse himself wholly in going Ga-ga over goo-goo ?!?!?
I bet you didn't think of all this. :-)

Prograts!!

Congratulations to you!

Congratulations Jeff!

Congratulations, Betsy and Jeff!

Prepare to have your sleep frequently interrupted :)

Congratulations! I wish a good health for Henry.

Congratulations to you both!

Congrats to you and your family!

Congratulations Atwood's

Congrats, Jeff.

What a miracle.

Congratulations boy!

Congratulations! Love your sense of humor. I like that "process id spawned." Cute. Your son is adorable too.

I'm also going to be a first-time mom in a few months. I have the project "code name" and release date posted on my whiteboard. :-)

Congratulations, Jeff Atwood, from all your old gaming buddies in the Denver, CO area.

I'm sending along a signed copy of Carmageddon as a birthday gift.

Big Congrads sir, from your old pal! Let the geekdome ensue!

Congrats!!!! I've been reading your blog for a while now, and this post definitely made it worth it.
It brought tears to my eyes as I remembered my own child's birth.

Good luck with the little programmer! :D

Congratulations. I am sure, he would become like his father who is helping thousands of people by sharing his thoughts and knowledge.

Thanks

-abdul

Congratulations !!!

Congratulations Betsy & Jeff.

Richard Stallman said he's gonna send you a "GNU and Friends: Coloring Book" a a gift.

Congratulations and loads of luck

Congratulations!

Congrats now go play with the n00b and get him up to speed.

Congratulations!!!!!!

And hope to Henry does not preffer ballet over programming =)

Remember, God's gift to parents...

Always remember that.

By the way, he is adorable!

congrats.

i have my first son due on the 7th, so my little programmer's showing up soon, too.

hey congrats! I'd've said something sooner, but I've been in hospital since the 14th getting my daughter :o

Your son is not your belonging. He may have his own opinions about his career.

Congrats, Jeff!

My wife just spawned two processes(one boy one girl) concurrently (3 minutes' time slice) last November. Currently they're run in an environment powered by four heterogeneous processors. And CPU load remains high during night cuz they're premature babies.

Hope your blog writing won't be affected too much by implementing new interfaces!

Best wishes to little Henry.

Congratulations to you and your nice family!

Congrats!

That's the best "tweet" Henry will ever post. From there they will degrade to the level of all tweets: "I'm hungry and so I ate." "I'm sleepy so I'm going to sleep".

Well done Jeff!! Congrats...

first time comment here, although somehow i've been a regular reader for some time..

first, congrats to you jeff :)

a little bit advice to prove your/his geekiness more. if your son is old enough to be able to hold a keyboard, perhaps you should try to give him his own keyboard :D, see how he'll respond.

i do it to my son, and even i have a picture of him, early in the morning, with his fingers dancing on the keyboard :). he was 11 months old, and i even living in a third world countries.

beware people of the us of a.. be very beware :))

Congrats.

Over the next few months... Be Zen

Whoring for gratulatory comments, one diary entry at a time.

Congratulations !

awesome post !!! many congratulations to you and your wife !!! :)

Congratulations! (2 weeks late)

Our geeklet was born 5 months ago, so I sincerely hope you and your wife can find time to rest. The first month was a combination of wonderful and miserable, but it's so very worth it. We have the most adorable little girl on the planet.

The first time she reached out and touched my wife's mouse, she clicked and opened Firefox. <3 <3 <3.

Congratulations! And you MIX show was perfect!

Thanks for writing so many great blog posts.

- Bruce

Hey Now Jeff,

Congrats!

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Congratulations Jeff!

Congrats!
As a new dad myself, I can only wish you a easy baby ;) .

And I found one truly great book made specialy for us.

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Congratulations for the news. Please keep doing the great work.