When Illness Moves In and You Still Have to Ship Code

Sometimes the hardest bugs aren’t in the code. They’re in your body.

We talk about burnout and stress in tech, but rarely about what happens when real illness enters the picture. Chronic fatigue, a diagnosis, or pain that doesn't go away. And yet the deadlines stay. The meetings continue. The code still expects to be shipped.

This is a reflection on what that feels like. How illness reshapes your work, your identity, and your relationship with productivity.

Maybe you’ve lived it. Maybe someone on your team is living it right now.

👉Here’s the full story