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Post Status Excerpt (No. 34) — Developer Overload: Physical and Mental Health
David chats with Cory about taking care of your physical and mental health and how these factor into “Developer Overload.”
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David chats with Cory about taking care of your physical and mental health and how these factor into “Developer Overload.”
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David and Cory discuss how hard it is to do “the right thing” and deal with tough, negative feedback as a result.
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David and Cory discuss Developer Overload, which David defines as what happens when “when you receive too much information and are unable to process it, resulting in negative responses and unhealthy effects.”
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David and Cory discuss a blog post David published at Post Status showing the growth of active installs of WordPress plugins declining in 2021.