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A couple months ago, I sat on the beach in Hawaii with nothing but disdain for all things tech. I stared at the watercolor sunset, feeling empty and drained thinking that a career change was in order. I was complete burnout in the…

For two years, I worked as a software engineer at a private company. My work hours were the usual 9-to-5, and my salary was more than enough for my needs. It felt like a steady and reliable job, the kind of job that…

When I shut close my laptop and apologized for leaving, it was a big achievement: I hadn’t shouted at anybody 🫣. I was just shaking from frustration and anger. Hi there, folks. This story is about the right and wrong ways of offering…

“Make me a microservice architecture!”“OK, but what’s the project?”“Use node.js! And run!”“Sir…? Sir…?” Try: createNewProduct({ tech: ‘node.js’ }) I started my career with the .NET stack: C# over the annoyingly misconfigurable service: the IIS. After spending about 4 years on it, I gained confidence, my code got better,…

With my “the normalized abnormal” series I wanted to tell you stories about how widespread are malicious practices at workplaces and also how prevalent is gas-lighting employees. From the side of management the fear is that employees start wasting resources, including time and…