Developer's Guide to Eliminating Back Pain at Your Desk

I spent three years ignoring my lower back. Then one morning I couldn't sit down to open my laptop. That was the wake-up call I should have written into a failing test months earlier. If you're reading this with a dull ache somewhere between your shoulder blades and your tailbone, you're in the right place. And you're not alone — 83% of software developers report chronic back pain (Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023). The average developer sits for 10+ hours a day, and most of us treat develo...