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How To Manage Your Stress as a Developer
In the first article of this series about stress, I was describing one of my panic attacks when I was working at my first job as a developer, 10 years ago. I was a mess at the time: I had a stressful job and I was partying a lot to try to blow off steam. I was mainly drinking and smoking at a point where I could not even remember half of the evening.
Programming Side Project Case Study With DevDash
Let sit down comfortably around the campfire, you and me and our common imaginary friends. The night is warm, the crickets are singing, the owls whoop, the mysterious cracks of the fire send sparkles to the night sky, enlightened already by million of stars.
Let me tell you the story of DevDash.
“Is it an animal?” you might ask if you didn’t click on the link.
Behind this singular name is hidden my last side project, a terminal dashboard for developers, written in Golang.
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6 Sources of Stress in Software Development
I remember it vividly: I was lying on my bed, cold and shaking. The room was turning. I was dizzy, angry, sad, full or reproaches, mostly toward myself. My nerves were breaking, my body was reacting.
I couldn’t move anymore.
It was 10 years ago, a Friday, late in the evening, after coming back from work. Working from 8am to midnight was no exception. I was working in a very small web agency as a beginner web developer, without any prior professional experience.
Global Variables and States: Why So Much Hate?
Global variables. Global states. These words induce fear and pain in every developer’s heart who had the unfortunate experience to deal with them.
Did you already fight against applications behaving unexpectedly, without knowing exactly why, like a poor knight would try to kill an Hydra with too many heads to deal with?
Did you end up in the infinite loop of tries and errors, guessing 90% of the time what was happening?