Well, it’s winter, so that’s like 4pm to start coding
This is true, but also, this is weird, right?
I’m not sure why but i just flat out work better at night when everyone is asleep, pretty mutch all of the “last modified” time on my project files is from 10 pm to 3 am
Some people are more diurnal, some are more nocturnal.
My productivity peak is between 8PM and 11PM, but with kids this is impossible.
no distractions…
one metaphor i heard is, holding a program in your head is like building a house of cards, every time a phone rings or something breaks your concentration, you have to rebuild the houseevery time a phone rings or something breaks your concentration, you have to rebuild the house
Holy moley.
I guess this is why programmers generally don’t do construction.
house of cards
Alternatively, the first three panels could be answering 734 emails, 6383 slack messages, and avoiding two required trainings.
Been trying to understand why I’m like this and I’m noticing the minute the sun starts going down , I become more focused.
I think this is because the sun is no longer a massive glaring ball of gas my brain has to manage.
I can’t tell if my hypothesis has any scientific validity but it’s what I tell my managers.
This isn’t my experience. I’m way more focused in the morning and then it’s all downhill after lunch. By the time it’s the evening I have zero motivation to do any code.
I’m the opposite I’m useless until after lunch
My best focus is before lunch and before the end of the day.
As a hobbyist, daughter goes to bed I start reading and experimenting.
Coding at night with the lights off makes you feel like one of the cool movie hackers.
visual studio finished starting
Bugs come out at night the most, so its just natural to hunt them in the dark.
ITT: a lot of undiagnosed sensory issues
I think some of it is the mental load expectation to go back to a difficult process. I find using genAI to start the task allows the load to come more progressively.
I’m far more focused at 2-5am
