Programming During War: An Experience to Forget

Have you ever tried to write code while running from missiles?
Or joined a daily meeting and heard an explosion through your teammate’s mic — someone you worked with every day, sitting right next to you?
I hope you never will.

One Week In

It’s been a week since the war began in Iran.
Honestly, we’re trying to live like nothing happened, trying to keep it together, but deep down, a lot is going on.

What’s It Like Working During a War?

Teamwork is still key when building software, that hasn’t changed.
But the way we try to do it has.

We try to break the tension with small jokes, “See? Your code was so shit, it started a war.”, maybe it’s our way of helping each other not give up.

A Way to Escape

Running out of the city you live in, losing internet access, worrying about your people, but still, we keep coding.
Maybe it’s a way to escape, to focus on something other than everything falling apart around us.

Maybe one day we’ll wake up and this will all feel like a bad dream.
Until that day, I hope peace is within you.
Keep going.