The Sunday scaries are REAL. By 6pm I'm already dreading Monday standup and rehearsing what I'll say about my 'blockers'. Slowly learning that resting isn't a productivity crime. Slowly.

Long distance since he moved to Bangalore for work. We schedule calls like standup meetings now and it's equal parts sweet and depressing. Anyone else basically dating a calendar invite?

Reviewed every budget wireless earbud in my range for two weeks so you don't have to: the 1500-rupee ones are genuinely fine, the 'sale' 4000 ones are just louder marketing. Save the money, buy chai.

CTC vs reality

Fresher CTC: sounds decent on paper. After PF, tax, and the 45-minute cab to Mohali, my actual 'fun money' is basically one Kasauli trip a month. Still — first time buying my parents dinner with my own money hit different.

Nobody warns you that 60% of a dev job is figuring out why the code WORKS, not why it broke. Spent 4 hours on a bug that turned out to be a missing comma. Mohali IT park has taken my soul and given me a company hoodie in return.