# Burnout
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Burnout is the state of being from the act of exhausting yourself mentally over an extended period of time. Burnout creeps up on you like the disrepair of your house, which suddenly springs a leak.
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# Team Dependencies
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One of the toughest things you will face in your career is not the code, it’s the dependencies between teams. In a small company, this will be fine, you can message Bob and ask for that latest API…
# My story of becoming a software engineer
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I left high school not really knowing where I wanted to go next. My entire teenage years had been devoted to becoming an NBA basketball player, yet when I hit 17 I knew that goal wasn’t going to be…
# The challenges of your first year in software development
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Growing pains It’s really hard to start a development career, or any career for that matter. You know absolutely nothing when it comes to development when you start.
# Micro-frontends (MFE): Why should I add the complexity
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I will be the first to say that I am very hesitant when it comes to micro anything. Microservices are traditionally done very poorly.
# What you need to know about building a team, as a tech startup
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This is one of the most important parts when you get funding because that funding is what determines what your next steps are. You should ideally be planning on a certain team size depending on how…
# Deliverying a project
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In my first year, I was part of something that not many first-year software engineers get to do and that was delivering a project from scratch to production with real customers. This is something…
# Taking the advice of more experienced developers
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One thing that I used to really struggle with and to an extent I think I still do, is taking on board the advice of people with more experience than me. In life and especially as a software…
# Mental Fatigue
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As I have said many times I am a newly grad. In fact I’ve only been working full-time as a developer for 9 weeks now.
# Mac OS & Apple in general
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For the longest time I have hated all Apple products, mainly because for cheaper you can build a much better system and you don’t have to pay that Apple tax. For many years this has served to be…