Posts tagged with mental health
Many programmers believe they are tired of programming, but they may actually be frustrated with bureaucracy, lack of product vision, and lack of ownership. Burnout can skew perspectives, and it may be more beneficial to address these issues rather than abandoning programming entirely.
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– www.moisis.dev - submitted by Moisis Hadjiagathangelou
After more than 9 years working with Laravel—leading a dev team and architecting solutions—I still sometimes feel like I’m not doing enough.
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Some nice thought by Aaron Francis
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At the end of each year, I usually write a full recap of everything I’ve done throughout the past 365 days.
This time, the recap will be much shorter as this year contained more days I’d like to forget than days I’d like to remember. Due to strain caused by events happening in my personal life, I’ve been struggling finding energy to do things I want to do well.
– baspa.dev - submitted by Bas van Dinther
Learn about imposter syndrome, its causes and how to combat it in the field of programming.
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Lisi Hocke on the challenges she faced the past few months during the pandemic. At the end of the post, she gives a few list of recommendations you can try to prevent a burn out.
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– tighten.co - submitted by Jamison Valenta
Tighten employees share encouragement for anyone struggling through the pandemic.
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James Brooks recently started a podcast on mental health. In the second episode Matt Stauffer was interviewed.
This week I’m speaking to Matt Stauffer. Matt is a partner at the web agency Tighten, developer, teacher, podcaster and author. Matt and I speak about his experiences with anxiety and depression, being a great employer and other things!
Read more [happy-dev.transistor.fm]
Last week I stumbled upon this article titled "GitLabbers share how to recognize burnout". It list these points to recognize burnout: You're constantly tired You no longer enjoy things Your job performance suffers Your relationships are strained (You have a hard time remembering…
Brent Roose wrote down his thoughts around how things like fonts, spacing, docblock, ... can influence the cognitive load of a programmer.
As a professional programmer, I'm reading and writing code on a daily basis. I'm working on new projects, doing code reviews, working with legacy code, learning documentation etc. Based on my own experience and that of colleagues, being a programmer often involves a lot more reading than actually writing code. Whether it's your own code or that of others, when you open a file, you have to take it all in. You need to wrap your head around what's going on, before you're able to write your code. Doing this day by day, it's important to find ways to make this process easy. To try and reduce this cognitive load as much as possible. Streamlining the way you take in code, will allow you to not only work faster and better; but also improve your mental state and mood.
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/a-programmers-cognitive-load
Visual debt is real.
Without any doubt Tim Wood, the creator of the awesome moment.js library, has done a lot for the community. It's really a shame that the constant pressure of maintaining the library has taken it's toll.
The correlation between Open Source and burnout is no secret, and I am not immune to it. ... Seeing bugs and issues continue to roll in and being mentally unable to address them has led to feelings of failure and depression. When looking at the moment project, I could only see the negatives. The bugs and misnomers and mistakes I had made. It let to a cycle of being too depressed to contribute, which led to being depressed because I wasn’t contributing.
Jack McDade, creator of Stamatic, designer of several Laravel ecosystem sites, on his blog:
I’ve been playing video games again. I feel fantastic and my head is clearer than it’s been in a while. Here are my thoughts on the topic and why I think video games are important and not even remotely a waste of time.http://jackmcdade.com/blog/why-i-play-video-games
Adrian Kosmaczewski shares lessons learned on what truely are the important things in your career as a developer. Even if you're not even close to approaching 40 years of life on the planet you should read this.
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/being-a-developer-after-40-3c5dd112210c#.11l62gnmgI have often pondered about leaving the profession altogether. But somehow, code always calls me back after a while. I like to write apps, systems, software. To avoid burning out, I have had to develop strategies.
In this talk I will give you my secrets, so that you too can reach the glorious age of 40 as an experienced developer, willing to continue in this profession.
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As long as your heart tells you to keep on coding and building new things, you will be young, forever.