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.
Category: Software Engineering
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.
Your Brain Has a Decision Budget (And You’re Overspending)
By 2 PM you can’t even decide what’s for lunch. Not because you’re not hungry. Because your brain made 47 decisions before noon and now it’s just… done.
The Empty File: When Overthinking Kills Your Code
Two hours of staring at an empty file. Zero lines of code. When thinking about the perfect solution prevents you from building any solution, you’re trapped in analysis paralysis.
You’re Not a Fraud: Making Peace with Imposter Syndrome
You just shipped something brilliant and all you can think is when they’ll realize you’re a fraud. If 58% of tech workers feel this way, maybe it’s not you. Maybe it’s the system.
When the Code Stops Flowing: Understanding Developer Burnout
If you’re staring at your screen feeling nothing but exhaustion, you’re not alone. 83% of developers face burnout. Here’s what it really feels like and why it’s happening to us.
Your Brain Isn’t a Browser: Why Context Switching Is Killing Your Productivity
That “quick question” on Slack just cost you 23 minutes of productive work. Here’s why context switching is wrecking your productivity and what you can actually do about it.
Real-Time WebSocket Architecture Series: Part 6 – Production-Grade Features
Part 6: Production-grade WebSocket features including automatic reconnection with exponential backoff, heartbeat monitoring, message acknowledgments, state recovery, and graceful shutdown.
