The one bug programmers cannot patch: procrastination.
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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My hyper focus makes me a good programmer. Unfortunately I only activate it every couple days. With their powers combined… I’m worth keeping employed. 👍🏻
Oh god, I feel this in my soul. I feel so fortunate that most people only see the running average of my work output and not a live feed of what I'm actually spending my time doing.
A good dev leader should know how adhd and autistic people work.
Luckily my boss does, bless him. If I ever leave the company, his attitude is one of the things I'll miss the most.
Big same.
I'm not a dev, but I'm on the infrastructure side of the house, and this is me to a T
If it works right?
That's what I always say.
The problem is definitely when I'm not working.
Coding is best done late at night when you wish you were asleep but there's that one bug...
Are we the same person? If I haven't figured out that one bug, it's going to haunt me.
marks 8 on timecard
I work 9a-5p and I do my best work after 11pm.
I'm glad I'm not the only one
For me it's 7am-3:30pm and I do all my work between 7am and the daily at 9:30am. After that it's just meetings and bullshitting on the internet. Everyone is satisfied with my work.
This is actually about Daylight Savings Time
Jokes on you but I get my best ideas at night
Make it an Irish coffee and you'll get there faster. My sweet spot was ~3 beers in an hour and I could suddenly code better (and it wasn't the alcohol talking).
Relevant xkcd
There's something similar with cannabis as well. Just a buzz and I'm a laser, even slightly more and suddenly I can't remember the process I was working on.
It's like looking through a telescope. Everything within the lens is clear and detailed, but anything on the periphery might as well not exist. Very useful state of mind for certain coding tasks.
Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.
that late night working fugue state