Building a mental health support network as a developer isn’t optional—it’s survival. Learn how to create multiple layers of support, find your tech community, and break free from the isolation that makes tech work so mentally challenging.
Category: Software Engineering
When Your Partner Doesn’t Get Tech Stress: Building Bridges Across the Digital Divide
When your partner doesn’t understand tech stress, the communication gap can strain your relationship. Learn practical strategies to bridge the digital divide and build mutual understanding between tech and non-tech partners.
Letter to My Younger Self: You Don’t Have to Work Nights and Weekends
It’s Friday at 5 PM. Everyone’s logging off. But you’re already planning to work tonight. Maybe tomorrow too. I need to tell you something that sounds impossible: You don’t have to work nights and weekends. Not to succeed. You just don’t.
Letter to My Younger Self: It’s Okay to Say No
Tomorrow your manager will ask if you can take on one more thing. You’ll say yes. Because you always say yes. Because no feels like letting people down. I need to tell you: It’s okay to say no. Sometimes it’s the only thing that will save you.
Letter to My Younger Self: You’re Not a Fraud
You just got the job offer. Instead of celebrating, you’re terrified. Convinced they made a mistake. That you’ll be exposed as a fraud within days. I need you to hear this: You’re not a fraud. You never were.
Letter to My Younger Self: About Burnout I Didn’t See Coming
Hey younger me – you think burnout won’t happen to you. You’re 25, energetic, passionate. You can work 12-hour days easily. I need to tell you something: you’re wrong. And I wish someone had warned me.
Getting Back on Your Feet After 6 Years Away from Tech: A Realistic Comeback Guide
A comprehensive, realistic guide for software engineers returning to tech after a 6-year career gap. Covers skill updates, portfolio building, networking, returnship programs, and mental strategies for a successful comeback.
When You Stop Caring: Understanding Compassion Fatigue
Another urgent message. The site is down. Your heart doesn’t race. No adrenaline. Just… nothing. You used to care about every bug. Now you’re just going through motions. Compassion fatigue took what you had left.
When Your Brain Goes Blank: Navigating Creative Block
You’re staring at the problem. You know what needs doing. But your mind is blank. Yesterday you solved complex problems effortlessly. Today you can’t start something simple. Your brain went on strike.
Ten Feet to Work: The Isolation of Remote Development
It’s Thursday. Or Tuesday? You haven’t had a real conversation in days. Just Slack and Zoom calls where everyone’s muted. Remote work promised freedom. It gave you isolation instead.
