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Code, Coffee & Chaos (My Full Stack Journey So Far)

Harsh Shrivastava on May 19, 2025

"We don’t just build software. We build ourselves while doing it." Hey folks! I’m Harsh — a MERN Stack developer and a curious soul navigating th...
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Nevo David

Gotta say, seeing someone own the chaos and still keep showing up makes me wanna push harder on my own coding messes too.

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Harsh Shrivastava

Good luck with your journey! 👍

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harshkumar8860

I feel i've this imposter syndrome all the time.

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Harsh Shrivastava

That's normal to every developer

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Tim Lorent

Thank you for sharing this @hprakash1999 ! It's always nice to read about people's journeys and it's great that you are open about this. Oh and "Impostor Syndrome is Universal.", absolutely! I've been a professional frontend developer for 7 years, became team lead within 5,5-6 years and still it troubles me sometimes.

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Harsh Shrivastava

Thank you for sharing ❤️

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Harish Srinivasan

It's an wonderful journey Harsh!, All the best ahead👏

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Harsh Shrivastava

Thank you!

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Nathan Tarbert

Pretty cool to hear someone else cares about making stuff tidy in code - I always get a weird satisfaction from that too.

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Harsh Shrivastava

I hope for your continued support 🤝

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Edith Agai

Those lessons are so real honestly the main thing is to keep going persistence is very important

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Harsh Shrivastava

Yupp 💯