The one bug programmers cannot patch: procrastination.
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.
If it works right?
That’s what I always say.
The problem is definitely when I’m not working.
I’m not a dev, but I’m on the infrastructure side of the house, and this is me to a T
Coding is best done late at night when you wish you were asleep but there’s that one bug…
I think it’s more related to the fact that it’s when there is no distractions at all. At least for me that’s probably the reason. No colleagues asking dumb questions, no pointless meeting, nearly no notification whatsoever.
Yup, things are nice and quiet when everyone’s asleep.
I’m really lucky that I work from home, my jobs timezone is 2h behind me, and my wife leaves for work at 10am when my work day is starting.
Are we the same person? If I haven’t figured out that one bug, it’s going to haunt me.
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.
marks 8 on timecard
I don’t drink coffee. You can imagine my day.
This is actually about Daylight Savings Time
Why is it this way?
ADHD
Oh no
Welcome to the club, pal
Because we didn’t evolve to survive in a capitalist society
no that can’t be right it’s probably a personal failing that I should internalise and maybe spend money on /s
Jokes on you but I get my best ideas at night
I just wish I got them during the day, when I’m getting paid
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.