From Developer to Poet 🌿: Why I Wrote "Stillness That Walks"

There's an image people have of developers. Alone. Headphones on. Screen glowing at 2am. Coffee going cold. Logic everywhere, feeling nowhere. I lived inside that image for years. And I was good at it. I am good at it. But at some point — I couldn't tell you exactly when — I noticed something had gone quiet inside me that used to make sound. Not burnout. Something slower than that. A kind of... stagnation of the heart. 🧊 The Cold That Builds Up Slowly Nobody talks about this in tech circles. We talk about shipping. About scale. About clean architecture and performance and user retention. We talk about everything except the fact that years of living inside your own head — inside systems, logic, abstractions — can make a person feel like they're slowly drying out. I don't think I'm alone in this. I think a lot of developers feel it and have no language for it. Because we were never trained to have language for it. We were trained to solve problems. And this isn't a problem you can solve