Sounds a bit like me.

COVID lock down and work-from-home broke me, as I needed to have other people sitting beside me to feel like I was actually working, or was needed.

Video meetings with staff in another city just made me feel more alone.

This is literally the job description for my last job, verbatim. My brain crashed, was on disability leave, then they removed my post due to redundancy. 🤷‍♂️

Basically, trying to keep all of the noise out my head or at least on a similar task is really hard at times. It is like being in a crowded restaurant and each sound gets the same amount of attention. Every step, clink, swish, creak, conversation, air movement, cars outside, all gets an equal amount of attention. Imagine a flat equalizer in a sense.Your brain is supposed to be able to filter that shit out so you can talk to the person in front of you. We don’t get that luxury.

This hits so close. I like this analogy.

It’s frustrating trying to tell people that you really were paying attention, it’s just to everything, everywhere, all at once.

Yikes! Thanks for the tip. I’m just starting to learn about Postgres. Think I’ll stick with MySQL or SQLite for now… :o

hides in Kate and a Codium-based IDE

…ooof. I have a high pain tolerance as well… Totally get this. A lot of things breeze off, then I wonder why I’m suddenly bruised, or my toe is broken.

Hahaha! I’m a full stack… I’m supposed to do both. Lol. I need more automation…!!!

Why hello there, me! Have a great day. ;)

This applies so hard to programmers, as well. I love making things automated, but I never have the time to make them properly.

Burn it!

Build.io? I’ll have to look into that plugin. Is it a paid one, or does it come with the Figma seats?

…and that, too. Tried to look at it as an existing Jack of All Trades. Get to learn new stuff!

But yeah… I feel like I’m being taken advantage of, sometimes.

Ahh, good ole stack managing.

Was this made with AI?

Wow. I just lost mine. Been through at least 5 so far… Of course I’m working on around 6 projects at any point.

My favourite was when I migrated a website to Plesk, and my boss wondered why it took me 8 hours to migrate a single website…

I’m falling into that myself… It seems my boss is trying to prevent me from being Pidgeon-holed into being just a programmer.

Aka, he is diversifying my portfolio to keep me on board as an employee.

Guess it helps some full-stack’ers if they also have experience in graphics design and copywriting.

I remember an old mentor programmer I had who basically described his job as building an addition to an addition to an addition on a tree house built in a twig.

Was gonna suggest this theme. I love it in my light daily driver.

Oh crap… No wonder my family car didn’t last long.