Daragh Byrne articles - 35 total
The magical powers of REST
Software development is demanding sometimes. There are endless tasks to get done. Often they have de...
A short guided meditation to relax into the weekend
It's a long weekend here in Australia. I've just had an intense period of coding - Python hitting Dyn...
My online meditation course for developers is open
Beautiful humans of Dev. Many of you have read my articles on meditation for software developers. L...
25 ways mindfulness and meditation help in my career as a software developer
A lot of people ask me how they can directly apply meditation itself, or what they learn through medi...
The Inner Game of Software Development
This came out of a thread of tweets. I composed last night. Like many of you, I've been reflecting...
The Developer Burnout Survey - Results
I did a short survey of 55 developers about burnout. Naturally, being a burnout focused survey, prett...
Dealing with your Inner Critic - a dev's guide
(first published on CodingMindfully.com) One of the side effects of my meditation practice is that I...
How to optimize for an amazing 2020!
How to optimize for meaning and focus
The Great Developer Burnout Survey 2019
I'm pretty passionate about burnout. I've even done it myself a few times. Article N...
Taking care of your emotional health - a dev's guide
Taking care of your emotions is super important, here is how
6 ways meditation makes me a better developer
6 ways meditation makes me a better programmer
Why knowing how to say "no" is important, and how to do it
“We need to learn the slow ‘yes’ and the quick ‘no.’” - Warren Buffet I'm naturally a people pleaser...
Three pro tips for tackling impostor syndrome
There is no shortage of articles about impostor syndrome on dev.to and other programming websites....
On calling out stress in other developers
Stress management is a responsible coding practice
The true story of how I got my first job
I was recounting this story to some folks in my office the other day - we were talking about our path...
What to do when faced with excellence
First published on CodingMindfully.com. I work with several extremely competent people. The kind of...
Software development and spirituality - what's the connection?
A question for devs
A dev's guide to meditation - part 5
A framework for learning meditation Hopefully by now this series has convinced you that mi...
What I've learned about HumanOS - the Human Operating System
Originally posted on CodingMindfully.com. As programmers we educate ourselves to a high degree about...
A dev's guide to meditation - part 4
Why meditation might help you code
Building an email list - a quick guide
List building 101
A dev's guide to meditation - part 3
Why meditation might help you code
A dev's guide to meditation - part 2
Why meditation might help you code
A dev's guide to meditation - part 1
Why meditation might help you code
Overthinking, evolutionary psychology, and programming
My mind is my most important tool as a programmer. It's the origin of every line of code I write. It'...
How to manage stress - a dev's guide
A programmer's guide to managing stress
A guide to Flow states for programmers
How to find and optimise your flow states
5 Yoga Poses Every Dev Should Try
In case you didn’t already know, sitting is the new smoking. It’s also a pretty prominent feature of...
Can code save the planet?
What coding activities do you know of that work to save the environment and the planet at large?
Does programming professionalise anxiety?
Like many of you , I've suffered from anxiety on and off over the years. From time to time I've been...