Category: Software Development
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Week 8: Quiet Progress, Holding Steady, and Learning to Be Okay with “Enough”
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This past week didn’t feel dramatic.There were no huge breakthroughs or sweeping changes. Instead, it felt quiet — sometimes heavy, sometimes steady — and full of the kind of progress that’s easy to overlook if you’re only measuring productivity by output. And…
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Week 7: In Between What Was and What’s Next — and Shipping Something Real
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This week didn’t come with a clean sense of momentum or a big emotional breakthrough. Instead, it lived in the middle — between what my life used to look like and what it’s slowly becoming. Some days felt heavy and unmoored. Others…
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I still need more Android testers for my mobile app!
For those that may not have seen my last post, over the last few days, I created a new .NET MAUI mobile application and the Android version of it is officially ready for testing! I’ve made it easier to join the testers (I need 20 testers to install and use the app for at least…
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Volunteers Needed To Test My New Android App!
If you’ve ever caught yourself asking, “Wait… did I do that already?” — this post is for you. Over the last several days, I’ve been working on a new mobile app called Did I Do That?, and it’s finally reached the point where I need real people using it in the real world. Before I…
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Week 4: Progress Isn’t Linear — But It Is Real
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. This past week reminded me of something I already knew intellectually, but am still learning emotionally: Recovery doesn’t move in a straight line. Some days felt focused and productive. Others were heavy, quiet, or emotionally draining. And yet, when I step back…
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Week 3: Finding Stability in Small Steps: Two Weeks Into My Journey
The Journey Begins: Rebuilding, Recovering, and Moving Forward A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. It’s been a little over two weeks since my role at FanDuel Sports Network came to an end. In that time, I’ve experienced a mixture of emotional highs, quiet challenges, moments of clarity, and…
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Week 2: Mapping the Road Ahead — My Burnout Recovery Plan
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. Last week, I wrote about the shock, relief, confusion, and emotional whiplash that came with losing my job right before Thanksgiving. It was a week of letting things sink in, finding a new rhythm, and beginning to process everything that had led…
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GitHubs Copilot Agent Is Amazing!
As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I am working on a mobile app built in .NET MAUI called MoveableEats. While I’m not quite ready to unveil it and what it is just yet, I thought I would write a quick post about my testing phase of building the app. The app itself is…
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My Last 6 Bugs in My MAUI Mobile App!
I’ve mentioned the name of the mobile app I’m working on in a few recent blog posts that I have worked on off and on for the last couple of years and now that I’m unemployed, I have finally had real time to dedicate to it. After all the time I have put in on…
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Week 1: Relief, Reality, and the First Steps Toward Stability
A candid weekly look at navigating burnout, rebuilding, and finding my next role. (Wednesday before Thanksgiving → Black Friday) This was my first full week of being unemployed — a sentence that still feels a little strange to write. The week started with shock, surged into relief, dipped into sadness, and eventually settled into a…