It’s midnight and you’re scrolling LinkedIn. Everyone your age just made principal engineer. Got a FAANG job. Launched something viral. Meanwhile you’re wondering if you’re falling behind. If it’s too late.
Category: Software Engineering
The Ideas You Never Share: Overcoming Fear of Failure
You have a good idea but don’t speak up. What if it’s stupid? What if you look incompetent? So you stay quiet. Someone else proposes it later and everyone loves it. Fear just cost you.
The Perfectionist’s Prison: When Good Code Isn’t Good Enough
You’ve been refactoring the same function for two hours. It works. It’s tested. But it’s not perfect. So you keep polishing while the deadline slides past and perfection never quite arrives.
Why I Built CV Forge: The Story Behind My Obsession with Tailored CVs
It was 3 AM. My coffee was cold, my eyes were burning, and I was staring at yet another rejection email. “Your profile doesn’t quite
The Invisible Leash: Breaking Free from Always-On Culture
It’s 9 PM. You’re having dinner. Your phone buzzes. A Slack message. You ignore it. It buzzes again. Your partner gives you that look. The invisible leash just pulled.
Just This Once: How Crunch Culture Became Forever
They said just this once. Just until launch. That was three months ago. You’re working 60-hour weeks and can’t remember when you last saw sunlight. The emergency never ended.
The Silence We Keep: Mental Health Stigma in Tech
They ask how you’re doing in stand-up. You want to say you’re struggling, that you barely slept. Instead you say “fine.” Because in tech, we debug memory leaks but don’t mention panic attacks.
Your Body Is Screaming: A Developer’s Guide to Managing Stress
Your jaw is clenched. Your shoulders are tight. Your stomach churns. This constant tension isn’t normal, even though it feels like it. Your body is trying to tell you something.
Your Body Is Screaming: Managing Stress as a Developer
Your jaw is clenched. Your shoulders are tight. This constant tension isn’t normal. Your body is trying to tell you something.
When Home Becomes Office: Reclaiming Your Life from Code
It’s 11 PM and your laptop is in your bedroom again. When did your home stop being a place to rest? The boundary between work and life has vanished, and it’s costing you everything.
