Tony St. Pierre

Code. Reflect. Evolve.

Daily Dev Reflections

Bring Stoic clarity to your craft.

Debug distractions, refactor your focus, and build resilience into every line of code.

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Day 8: Knowing What You Can Control

Regain control in the chaos of debugging. Shift your mindset, embrace structure, and transform challenges into opportunities for growth, building both technical skills and personal resilience along the way.

Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.

Epictetus

Day 5: Define Who You Want to Be

Growth doesn't happen by chance. Great developers move with purpose. Define the kind of engineer you're becoming, align your actions with that vision, like clean, reviewed commits, and let small habits build the lasting version of you.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

Day 4: Embrace Reality, Not Expectations

Clarity begins when you stop resisting change. Great developers don't cling to what was. They adjust purposefully, refocus their energy, and build with what's real. The result is more substantial, cleaner, and more resilient.

Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happens the way it happens: then you will be happy.

Epictetus

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