What It’s Like to Code While Trying to Stay Alive

Is a deadline more serious than a pandemic?

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I live in Chennai, a major Indian city. If you’ve somehow managed to tune out the news for a month, I’ll tell you what’s happening. We have more than 250,000 new Covid cases per day in India, our medical resources are running out, and our healthcare system is overburdened.