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Its Sunday, are you coding?

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 on June 16, 2019

Its Sunday, I get a call. Timelines have changed, new demos are scheduled. Most people are mad when work calls them on the weekend. When I get the ...
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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

Yes, I code most Sundays

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RAM PANDEY

I code every single day. For me every new line of code is a invention and it gives me a sense of pride (also I dance when my code works 👷).

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Cooper

It's a good thing my code doesn't work often because I'm a bad dancer

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Christopher Kade

I find that the context of the week-end lets me really relax and code at a slower pace. It's also when I work on smaller & weirder projects like the one I wrote about today:

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Karan Balaji 🇨🇦

Yes. At least 1 hour minimum regardless of any holidays

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Juneau Lim

Sure thing, Sunday is just another day and I have no friend to meet and hang around with.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

The only friends I need are clang, vim and &&

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Scott Simontis

I quit my job so I have to prepare for the interview game again...ugh.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

Select every other letter from the alphabet and then write an api that scrapes an online dictory for all the valid words that match the remaining letters. Solve it using O 1 space complexity. lol

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Scott Simontis

During my last job search, one of the take home assignments from a company was to write a REST API that returns "Hello World!". That was literally all the instruction that was given. When pressed for more details, I was told to think about a design which would be easy to expand upon in the future and other cliche directives. I still have no idea what exactly they were looking for, it seems like a sarcastic comment or a cruel joke that went way too far.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I like when companies have challenges where you have to hack a web-app or send your résumé via an API endpoint in a specific format.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

No, I'm not coding most Sundays

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Davide de Paolis

no. i am not coding on sundays. i am not usually coding outside work at all. at work i create. at home i mostly consume. read stuff, watch courses or create other type of content. but not coding. very very rarely.

and of course i do sports and spend time with kids and wife.
no coding. sorry. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Gabi

Hi, i don't work on weekends for my job. I don't answer phone calls or emails either. It's a set of boundaries that are healthy (and particular normal) for me. I work on the time i have agreed upon in a contract.

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Arswaw

I like to program. It's why I am paid to do it forty hours a week. To do even more would leave me with less time for life.

I would become irritated if called on a Sunday. Work does not own that time.

If it's not an emergency, it can wait.

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Ben Overmyer

I don't often code on weekends anymore. If I do, it's a personal project.

I never work on weekends. My priorities include having a balanced life, and work is only part of life.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

This is interesting as my attitude has always been "work is life"

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Ben Overmyer

I've heard of people with that mindset. Personally, work is just something I'm good at that pays well enough to fund the part of my life that matters more to me.

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Jariullah Safi

It varies for me. I try to limit it and use the weekend as family/me time. Some weeks "me time" involves coding, other weeks it does not.

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jesús gollonet

I don't. And I'll confess I'd like to. But weekend is for the kids

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𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝

I think it's important to relax. I may do a few hours on a weekend, but mostly my weekends are my downtime to unwind.

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Tiago Celestino

No, I’m no coding saturdays too. I work for code at 13 years. In the moment I preferer enjoy my weekend with my friends or watching a series/movies on Netflix.

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Sally

No. I spend time with my children. I go hiking, or climbing, or weightlifting.

Workaholism is neither healthy nor admirable. It leads to this industry's fetishization of long hours for low pay, crunch time, late-nights and the belief one has to sacrifice every minute of free time to perform in this career. This leads to burn-out and poor mental and physical health.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I choose to be a workaholic, it is what works for me and is healthy for me.
What you choose to do is your choice.

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Erika Heidi

I wish, but I'm ever too busy with my kiddo and that's time to spend with the family... I might do some writing or 3D printing, but coding requires a lot of concentration and that is very hard with small kids around

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I have a 1 month and 16 month year old.
I'm use to being interrupted on average every 1.5 hours.
I am incredibly fortunate to work from home and have my own business.

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George Offley

I've been programmed to think that if you're not coding/working you're not producing, and if you're not producing you're wasting time and you're going to die alone and broke.

But between school and work I'm coding most days.

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Mohammad Amin Khakzadan

coding is nonsense work, working is also nonsense, the best thing to do is to do nothing.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

Reminded me of nihilists from Lebowski

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Pablo Antonio Rodríguez Rubio

No, I have life.

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Tai Travis

No, and it's a bad habit to fall into. This is why it's important to be paid hourly. This way, you won't mind as much.
Saturdays I go biking or snowboarding but Sundays are for personal projects and chores, usually.

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bendersteed

Yes, I came to play around with re-agent and clojurescript for the first time and the experience is very nice.

Sunday is mostly exploratory stuff.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

Closure script is legit 💯 💯 💯 💯

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Tasha Penwell

Depends...I'm usually writing but depending on who's home (husband or son) and what the the weather's like I code or just try to reassure myself that there are 6 other days in the week.

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Clara

Yes, I code on Sundays because it's a working day her ein Israel 😝

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Jonathan Kuhl

Yep, flexed my Java muscles a bit yesterday:

github.com/jckuhl/Fractions

Nothing outstanding, just needed a review.

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Brian Barbour

Finishing my Advanced Javascript course and then working on a new React project! I code everyday too, or at least do something coding related everyday.

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fischgeek

I usually spend Monday debugging Sunday's code.

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Nai Mongkolpoj

Yes, but not every Sunday.

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Dillon Greek

Stuck and I already spend the majority of my weekend trying to figure it out. Think I'll just relax and enjoy the last bit on weekend I have.

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Elizabeth Alcalá

Not every Sunday, I visit my parents those days and try to not thinking about code.

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Kamaraj

Yes mostly

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Savas Vedova

Yeah, i code everyday :)

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Oleg Aleksandrov

Last 5-7 month, I code every Sundays.