--- title: When Recovering From Burnout, Writing Became My Therapy.... description: Cesar Aguirre, a senior software engineer, is hosting an AMA to mark the one-year anniversary of his book 'Street-Smart Coding'. He got sick and burned out in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/when-recovering-from-burnout-writing-became-my-therapy-and-this-week-my-first-coding-book-turns-1--jhhxx5wvy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: When Recovering From Burnout, Writing Became My Therapy. And This Week My First Coding Book Turns 1 Year Old. Ask Me Anything! | daily.dev og:description: Cesar Aguirre, a senior software engineer, is hosting an AMA to mark the one-year anniversary of his book 'Street-Smart Coding'. He got sick and burned out in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-recovering-from-burnout-writing-became-my-therapy-and-this-week-my-first-coding-book-turns-1--jhhxx5wvy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JHHxx5wvy.png og:image:alt: When Recovering From Burnout, Writing Became My Therapy. And This Week My First Coding Book Turns 1 Year Old. Ask Me Anything! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # When Recovering From Burnout, Writing Became My Therapy. And This Week My First Coding Book Turns 1 Year Old. Ask Me Anything! **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cesar Aguirre, a senior software engineer, is hosting an AMA to mark the one-year anniversary of his book 'Street-Smart Coding'. He got sick and burned out in 2023, then was laid off in 2024. Writing on his blog and dev.to became his recovery tool, and after hundreds of posts he challenged himself to write a book, a roadmap with 30 lessons. That book is now book two of a planned four-part series, alongside a prequel called 'Street-Smart Manifesto' and a sequel in progress. He's inviting readers to ask about coding, burnout, or writing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I burned out. 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