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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?
All wins count -- big or small 🎉
Examples of 'wins' include:
- Getting a promotion!
- Starting a new project
- Fixing a tricky bug
- Turned off notifications for an hour and didn't spontaneously combust 🔕
Happy Friday!
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Promoted to Senior Full-Stack Developer at CALEC!
I'm tired boss
Made it a full week without touching the Switch games before bed.😂
I am still around, recovering from burnout. Turns out sometimes the best you can do is to unplug for a while. Spend time in nature. Make some art. Sit in silence. At least it works for me.
So, as for my wins this week, I would list:
Take care, folks! 💛
Hey Klaudia! I would recommend doing once a week instead of having to do a lot in a week and get burn out on the next. It helps me and If you are planning on consistent post, this is usually ideal. Glad you are feeling okay!
Hey Francis! Thanks for reaching out; your comments somehow always boost my mood 🙂
Do you mean that you set yourself a routine, for example, to write and publish a post on DEV once a week?
Exactly! It is what I have been doing for the past 5 months or so and it work well. @sylwia-lask and @hemapriya_kanagala does the same as well (though I am realizing Hema and I have the same posting schedule which is every monday lol).
Hahaha true! Although sometimes I consider publishing two articles in a week... But usually I'm to busy and I'm staying with one, which is perfectly enough :)
As someone who has taken a couple of months to recover from burnout, I feel this. I had completely shut down for a while, but I've decided to get back at it, and I'm making sure to pace myself this time around.
So there's hope for me, too! 💚 Happy to hear that you found your way out of burnout.
I totally relate to this. Since covid after helping build the 2 first covid emergency response call centers. I was burnt out completely by tech. Had just finished a degree in networking, studying for comptia A+. Suddenly, I just couldn't sit in front of the computer anymore. I would wake up, open my laptop and just stare at the screen for 5-10 minutes. Got to the point i was getting anxiety. I just started getting back on tech about 7 months ago. Thank's to AI, and helping me gather my thoughts and what I really wanted to do in technology if anything at all, tech has always been a passion of mine. Took a few months to just get in the habit of getting in front of my computer and sitting down for an hour a day was a win, w/o anxiety. i spent alot of time outdoors, natture like you said, and that helped clear my head. I became a nature junky, hiking every weekend. I feel ya. There are times when you must unplug and just go out and do something. Now I am much better and managing my time and not sitting in front of a computer until i fall asleep on my laptop, wake up and keep doing whatever i was doing. Take care, and what you did is deff a win. Now I'm starting to try and find my tribe, getting more into dev ops, programming things rather than just the hardware stuff. Also writing articles of all my builds, which I'm about to post a few today that I have back logged. Take care, and if anyone ever starts feeling burn out, get use to the feeling of when to call it a day, you deserve a break, nature, love yourself. The computer and all of us will still be here tomorrow. "Whatever you're building today, keep going" 🚀🔥 -- Voytek
Happy to hear you're getting back to tech as well! You are a great example that it's possible to get back after burnout. Wish you all the best! 🍀
I'm really happy to hear this, Klaudia 😀 Take all the time you need and keep enjoying the little things that make you feel better. And all the best with the posts too! It's so nice to hear that the ideas and your excitement for writing are coming back naturally.
Sending lots of positive thoughts your way, and I hope you have a wonderful week ahead 🧡
Thank you, Hema, it's very kind of you 💛
Launched profile pages for Old Light!
oldlight.io/player/alpha/mr-linxed
I just launched a new website this week: the blog section of my company website.
It is a French-only blog, built with Astro 7 and the Stardrive theme.
To launch it properly, I wrote four articles this week, all based on my own experience from years of working with websites, infrastructure, and software projects.
One small technical detail I enjoyed building: I created a custom component specifically for this blog — a reusable CTA block that can be inserted at the end of articles.
Nothing revolutionary, but it is a good example of why I like static site generators: simple architecture, fast pages, and full control over the codebase.
Next step: keep writing and see how the content evolves over time.
I launched the 2nd book of my coding trilogy: Street-Smart Coding Manifeso :)
One of my win was to complete a blog on my first Gen AI project for which I've been procrastinating for weeks now. You can go and checkout on my profile.
I got my portfolio up and running and I plan on adding more features as I make more progress in my work.
I built my first agentic-ai product and after much debugging, it's working! I'm so proud of it even though it's the MVP!
Got a new badge <3
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