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Programming Again After 2 Years... | Mental Health & Burn Out

Programming Again After 2 Years... | Mental Health & Burn Out

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Staying Motivated and Focused in a Competitive Industry: A Guide to Overcoming Toxicity and Nurturing Positivity

Staying Motivated and Focused in a Competitive Industry: A Guide to Overcoming Toxicity and Nurturing Positivity

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Understanding the desiredCount and autoscaling behaviour of AWS Fargate - Fuckups 🤦‍♂️ and learnings 🤓

Understanding the desiredCount and autoscaling behaviour of AWS Fargate - Fuckups 🤦‍♂️ and learnings 🤓

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Tech Industry Burnout: How Can We Prevent It?

Tech Industry Burnout: How Can We Prevent It?

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Fight against your Ego!

Fight against your Ego!

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How I Hacked My Brain to Let Myself Relax in the Evenings

How I Hacked My Brain to Let Myself Relax in the Evenings

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Peeling Back the Layers: 5 Key Influences Behind Imposter Syndrome

Peeling Back the Layers: 5 Key Influences Behind Imposter Syndrome

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3 things the best senior developers do

3 things the best senior developers do

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Should I disclose mental health issues to my employer?

Should I disclose mental health issues to my employer?

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How to Deal with Burnout

How to Deal with Burnout

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How to Handle Coding Burnout

How to Handle Coding Burnout

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Is It Really Imposter Syndrome?

Is It Really Imposter Syndrome?

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The Curse of "Imposter Syndrome" and How to Overcome It

The Curse of "Imposter Syndrome" and How to Overcome It

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Battling impostor syndrome as a software engineer

Battling impostor syndrome as a software engineer

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Anti-FOMO

Anti-FOMO

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Working on legacy code-bases can make us better developers, here is why.

Working on legacy code-bases can make us better developers, here is why.

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Just launched my mental health app

Just launched my mental health app

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10 Tips for Tackling Mental Health Issues as a Software Engineer (or Anyone Else, Really)

10 Tips for Tackling Mental Health Issues as a Software Engineer (or Anyone Else, Really)

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Don't Let Burnout Hold You Back: The Ultimate Guide to Thriving as a Software Developer

Don't Let Burnout Hold You Back: The Ultimate Guide to Thriving as a Software Developer

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Beginners guide on how not to abandon that one project

Beginners guide on how not to abandon that one project

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Mental Health matters first

Mental Health matters first

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What I learned from being burnt out

What I learned from being burnt out

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my 2022 was not as bad as I thought after reading all other people's yearly retrospectives

my 2022 was not as bad as I thought after reading all other people's yearly retrospectives

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2023 - This year go for Smart Goals and Habits

2023 - This year go for Smart Goals and Habits

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Two-Thirds Of Britons Suffer From The "Sunday Scaries"

Two-Thirds Of Britons Suffer From The "Sunday Scaries"

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7 Subtle Signs of Developer Burnout — And How to Recover From It

7 Subtle Signs of Developer Burnout — And How to Recover From It

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Breath - Mental Health App (UX & UI Case Study)

Breath - Mental Health App (UX & UI Case Study)

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After I do digital detox for a month

After I do digital detox for a month

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Maintaining a Healthy-Enough Mindset through Uncertainty

Maintaining a Healthy-Enough Mindset through Uncertainty

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Learning to Code Taught Me the Importance of Boundaries

Learning to Code Taught Me the Importance of Boundaries

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What mass layoffs, cancelled projects and chinese farmers can teach us about resiliency.

What mass layoffs, cancelled projects and chinese farmers can teach us about resiliency.

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Focus on the positive! - No! the world needs more pessimists!

Focus on the positive! - No! the world needs more pessimists!

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Focus on the positive, pt2 - How do you stay positive, when you lose?

Focus on the positive, pt2 - How do you stay positive, when you lose?

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Doubt in Debugging

Doubt in Debugging

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ADHD and being a programmer

ADHD and being a programmer

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Using Azure Storage Queues and Python to Automate Sending Tweets

Using Azure Storage Queues and Python to Automate Sending Tweets

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The Junior Developer Journey - Part 7

The Junior Developer Journey - Part 7

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Striking a Balance

Striking a Balance

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Twitter - My Advice is To Give Up

Twitter - My Advice is To Give Up

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Do you track any personal health data? If so, what and how?

Do you track any personal health data? If so, what and how?

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How has the software dev job gotten worse in the last few years?

How has the software dev job gotten worse in the last few years?

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A Guided Journal for Developers... Devjour

A Guided Journal for Developers... Devjour

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8 Travel Tips for Developer Advocates (and Other Tech Roles)

8 Travel Tips for Developer Advocates (and Other Tech Roles)

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Facing Imposter Syndrome: Am I Worthy?

Facing Imposter Syndrome: Am I Worthy?

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Do not apologize

Do not apologize

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Above All Else... Take Care Of Your Mental Health

Above All Else... Take Care Of Your Mental Health

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One New Healthy Habit this Month

One New Healthy Habit this Month

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Facing Imposter Syndrome: Do I Belong?

Facing Imposter Syndrome: Do I Belong?

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How to handle interview rejections gracefully?

How to handle interview rejections gracefully?

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The emotional gauntlet of learning to code

The emotional gauntlet of learning to code

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On the Edge of Burnout... Again

On the Edge of Burnout... Again

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Dealing with imposter syndrome

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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Coding and ADHD - Where We Excel

Coding and ADHD - Where We Excel

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Why do developers experience so much imposter syndrome?

Why do developers experience so much imposter syndrome?

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Coding and ADHD - Can't Start

Coding and ADHD - Can't Start

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On Autism - Grounding and Normalcy

On Autism - Grounding and Normalcy

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Coding and ADHD - ADHD Brains

Coding and ADHD - ADHD Brains

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Coding and ADHD - Can't Remember

Coding and ADHD - Can't Remember

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Coding and ADHD - Can't Keep Going

Coding and ADHD - Can't Keep Going

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Coding and ADHD - Can't Stop

Coding and ADHD - Can't Stop

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