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I am that I am.

We all hear about "Not comparing yourself to others" and that "comparing yourself is the thief of joy". To be honest, I agree and it's strange that I …

Isn't Just Only a Term (Tech Winter)

Should I quit IT or just live through the burnout? Low-effort AI content as a burnout trigger Klaudia Grzondziel Klaudia Grzondziel Klaudia Grzondziel…

Dear Stranger — A Page for You

There is a kind of loneliness that does not always announce itself. It can be quiet. Heavy. Hidden behind a smile. It can make someone feel as though …

ADHD Waiting Mode — Why One 3 PM Appointment Ruins Your Whole Day

You have one appointment today. It is at 3 PM. It will take an hour. It is now 9:30 AM, and you have already decided - not consciously, but somewhere …

Why Context Switching Destroyes Your Productivity (And How to Fix It)

You are in the middle of a report. Your phone buzzes. You glance at it. Just a Slack message, but you answer it real quick. Then you check email. Then…

ADHD Paralysis: Why You Freeze When There's Too Much to Do (And How to Break Out of It)

You have twelve things to do. You know what they are. You know they matter. And yet you are sitting on the couch, staring at your phone, feeling the g…

It's You.

To start off, I appreciate the community support I have received on the post about being behind. I am behind, and I can't prove it but does it matter?…

The Subtraction Principle: Building a Meditation App Without Gamification

The Problem with Mindfulness Apps Last month I downloaded five meditation apps. Within a week, I was juggling three streak counters, two leaderboards,…

👾 🧚🏼‍♀️Maximizing Fable for Life Admin

TLDR: The most powerful AI on the planet, only a few days of access. Maximize it. I'd first like to give credit where it's due: @trickell - Thank you …

Subtraction > Addition: Why the Best Meditation App Asks Nothing From You

Every meditation app I have tried wants something from me. Headspace wants me to maintain a streak. Calm wants me to listen to a Daily Jay. Insight Ti…

Burnout isn't just "being tired"—it’s a cascading symptoms.

Do we actually know what it is? Maybe we're experiencing it and just don't realize it. Feeling depleted in spite of sleeping for hours. Feeling negati…

How letting go of expectations makes us better

With mindfulness being one of the cornerstones of the way I try to live, I sometimes think about how mindfulness practices can help us in software dev…

How to stop overthinking at night

It is 11pm, or 2am, and your body is finally still. The lights are off, the day is done, and that is exactly when your mind picks up the megaphone. Th…

What I Learned Building an peptides tracker app for My Girlfriend's Stack

A few months ago my girlfriend went down the peptides rabbit hole. GLP-1 first, then a bunch of others whose names I still struggle to spell. She star…

Togetherness 🙌 we can shine ✨️ 😎 Let's build teamwork together ❤️ 💜

The Psychology of Freelance Pricing: Why Smart People Undercharge

Originally published on https://fairprice.work/blog/psychology-of-freelance-pricing-undercharging/ The Smartest Freelancer in the Room Still Underchar…

I am behind, and I can't prove it but does it matter?

Let's be fair. The title of this post is confusing at first, but once you read it in full, I hope you will understand why. Do let me know if otherwise…

I finish the hard build in private, then freeze at publish

There is a folder on my machine nobody has ever seen. It holds some of the best work I have done. A system that runs itself, tested to the edges, the …

Imposter Syndrome in Tech: How to Deal with Feeling "Not Good Enough"

Picture this: You are staring at your screen, reviewing a pull request. The codebase feels like an alien language. Meanwhile, your colleagues are drop…

Burnout in senior engineers is usually structural, not personal

For years I treated burnout as a personal failing. If I was tired, I needed more sleep. If I was anxious on Sunday night, I needed to meditate. If I d…

Truthful AI Under Pressure: What Kradle.AI Might Reveal About Fable 5

Do you know what many neurodivergent people have deeply rooted in them? A relationship with truth and justice. In psychology, this phenomenon is often…

Create content about 'productivity' on Dev.to (avg 330 engagement)

The Developer's Guide to Sustainable Productivity: Tools, Techniques, and Mental Models The Developer's Guide to Sustainable Productivity: Tools, Tech…

Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object

When I attend tech conferences, people usually know me — if they do — for my work on Cilium and my labs. That started changing recently. At the last t…

I built an AI for relationships — here's why nobody else has

Every developer I know has built something for themselves. A productivity tool. A habit tracker. A personal finance app. An AI that makes them smarter…

Return to the Planet of the Autistics

Field journal of Dr. E. Rempel, Department of Minority Neurological Studies, University of New Carthage (A work of fiction. "Allism" is a real term us…

Your app can save someone from having a panic attack (a real-life story)

As I'm observing engineers, I notice that most of them share the same characteristic: unending loads of curiosity. You, software developers, are deepl…

Your What Keeps Me Going!

This specific undertaking is not fundamentally burdensome in terms of labor; however, this endeavor serves as the crucial support for my unwavering co…

The problem with my memory and why I stopped trusting myself to remember things

I work on a computer all day. Multiple projects, lots of switching, constant interruptions. A while back I noticed I was losing track of my own work. …

I just shipped a meditation feature. Here's exactly where I used AI — and where I didn't.

Yoga Wake Up has had guided meditation for years. But this week we launched something new: Guided Silence — a meditation experience where I use my voi…

What Building an AI-Powered Mental Wellness Platform Taught Us About Human Behavior

When we started building Wellzy , we thought the biggest challenge would be the AI. We were wrong. The hardest part wasn't choosing models, designing …