Senior engineer marks one year of his coding book after burnout recovery through writing

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Cesar Aguirre, a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience, wrote about recovering from illness and burnout in 2023 by returning to writing. After hundreds of posts, he set out to write a book, which became Street-Smart Coding. The book is the second in a four-part series that also includes Street-Smart Manifesto, and a sequel titled Street-Smart Coding in the Age of AI is in progress. To mark the book's first anniversary, he is hosting an Ask Me Anything session on DEV Community.

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