I've Spent 10+ Years in Software Engineering. After Sickness, Burnout, and a Lay

<p>There's a specific kind of exhaustion that software engineers know well.</p> <p>It's not the kind where you can't get out of bed. It's the kind where you get out of bed, open

<p>I used to think the job was mostly writing code. Seven years in, I still write code 💻, but the moments that stick are rarely the ones where I typed the cleverest abstraction.

<p>It’s been nearly a year since I last actively posted or shipped code publicly. Life happened, academic commitments shifted, and my focus drifted. But a few days ago, looking at