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A mental health feature for people who work with agents

It's late. The review agent has found one more thing: a boundary case in a regex. The coding agent fixes it, opens another PR, and the reviewer find…

Beyond Transcripts: Building an AI-Powered Empathy Engine for Mental Health

In the world of mental health counseling, the "magic" happens in the nuances—the pauses, the shifts in tone, and the emotional resonance between the…

The second time I’ve felt replaceable as a developer

It’s been 25 years since PHP3, and knowing how to code always felt like a superpower. Lately that feeling has been shrinking seemingly overnight. I…

Dear Dev, What Are You Coming Back To?

I've been noticing more conversations lately about burnout, losing motivation, and starting over in tech. It's not just about being tired. Sometimes…

💅 Keyboard Makeover

I have had this interesting piece of psychedelic looking vinyl for some time. Today I finally found a use case for it. I turned a regular keyboard i…

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Notes From a Developer Fighting Imposter Syndrome Daniel Zelaya Daniel Zelaya Daniel Zelaya Follow Oct 2 Notes From a Developer Fighting Imposter Sy…

Self-Compassion as a Planning Skill, Not a Soft Extra

Self-Compassion as a Planning Skill, Not a Soft Extra Last January I bought a paper planner with a green cover and seven blank columns per week. I f…

Why 'Do It for Future You' Fails When You Have ADHD

Why "Do It for Future You" Fails When You Have ADHD The planner lasted eleven days. It was a beautiful planner. Linen cover, dot grid, a column for…

The many layers of job hunting hell

I've been unemployed for over a year. This post might seem a rant, and probably it is, I just want to vent out my experience in this jungle called j…

One year unemployed. The market is shifting and I just don't know how to keep up

Coding with ADHD: I lose 20 minutes re-reading my own code after every break — so I built a tool that hands me the first line

I'm a developer with ADHD. Every time I close a tab, restarting my own code costs me twenty minutes — so I built a tool that hands me the first line…

Shipping a multilingual Flutter AI therapist: Gemini first, Claude as fallback

I shipped Safe Space , a Flutter app for everyday mental-health self-help: AI chat, a mood journal, CBT-style thought records, PHQ-9 / GAD-7 screens…

The beauty and terror of negative feedback

Giving my first conference talk recently was an absolute thrill. I was excited, not overly nervous, and deeply confident in the hard work I’d put in…

🪄 The Beauty of Being Bad at First: Why We Need to Protect Our Beginner Mindset 🎨✨

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🔥 The Imposter’s Tax: Why Hiding Your Wins Is Secretly Hurting Everyone

(っ◔◡◔)っ 💖 🌸 "Your light doesn't shrink anyone else's sun; it just reminds them how to warm up." We need to talk about a silent, heavy tax that high-…

What I Learned Building a Diabetes Management Website

A few months ago I started building [reversemydiabetes.co]a small health platform focused on helping people manage type 2 diabetes through diet and…

How are you feeling about tech lately?

For Dev.to’s 2025 New Year’s Writing Challenge, I wrote a reflection on the major management change within my company. Fast forward to now and I’m s…

I Don’t Think I’m Losing My Memory. I Think I’m Trying to Think at AI Speed.

Something strange has been happening lately, I keep forgetting small things. Not names. Not conversations. Not important events. Small pieces of rou…

You are not a software engineer: how I protect myself from burnout

Someone asked me at the end of a talk recently whether I'd ever burnt out. I said no. I put it down to still loving the work, and to communicating p…

Emotional Rollbacks: Why We Revert to Old Versions of Ourselves Around Certain People

How specific relationships reactivate archived behavioral patterns, why personal growth collapses in familiar emotional environments, and what happe…

Your Job Ends at 5. Your Developer Brain Doesn't.

5:00 PM. Laptop closed. Slack closed. Workday over. Except my brain didn't get the memo. I'm making dinner, and I'm still half-thinking about a func…

I Tracked My Anxious Thoughts for 30 Days in Notion — Here's What the Data Revealed

The Experiment As developers, we spend our days debugging code. But when was the last time you debugged your own thinking? I ran a 30-day experiment…

AI Mental Health Support: What a New Audit Found in Long Conversations

Originally published at roshni.online A study published in Nature Medicine this month tested AI mental health support the way people actually use it…

How do you deal with chronic fatigue, brain fog and burnout as a developer?

Hey everyone! I’ve been working as a software engineer for a few years, but lately my fatigue and brain fog are completely out of control. Even afte…

Stop Calling Everything Impostor Syndrome: The Myth of "Just Push Harder"

Not everyone who doubts themselves is suffering from impostor syndrome. Sometimes the real problem lies in the strategy they've chosen, and that's e…

Summer Log #4

کم‌کم دارم برمی‌گردم به همون ذهنیتی که همیشه باید می‌بوده استمرار و نیت خوب آخرش جواب می‌ده خیلی چیزا ارزش این همه درگیری ذهنی رو ندارن برای ناامید…

Are AI-Generated Videos Rewriting Our Understanding of Physics?

How synthetic reality may influence human intuition about motion, gravity, and causality AI video generation has reached a point where a model can c…

Choose your Burden

Hey everyone. Just an update on the Salesforce Certification. I am planning on releasing articles about it after getting the certification, so that…

Brain Science: Friday, July 17

Brain Science Friday: What Neuroscience Actually Says About How You Should Be Studying Right Now Here's a fact that should change everything about h…

Eastern Philosophy for Developers: Using Wang Yangming to Combat Burnout

As developers, we are constantly bombarded with noise. There is always a new framework to learn (Rust, Go, Next.js), a new architectural pattern to…