Do you associate music with any fond coding memories?

When I was first getting into software development, I had a thing for The Doors, so I coded to songs like Riders in the Storm.

When I was early in my coding career, I had a Pink Floyd phase.

I recall one tight deadline where I had Nirvana on loop for hours.

Kanye was my go-to for productive coding sessions for a long time.

I go back to these places often to resurrect the headspace I was in at the time. Does anyone else do this?

Comments

[Madza]

Those are some lit names up there 🔥🔥
Great taste across a wide variety of styles 🎵🎵

[Ben Halpern]

Thank you :)

[almokhtar bekkour]

@ben out of context have you ever tried to code your music with ruby sonic-pi.net/

[Ben Halpern]

I like music, but don't have a lot of personal music-creating abilities. I have, however, recommended Sonic Pi to my brother @mikeydorje who is a musician and Ruby developer.

[Rob Bhatia]

I don’t code but I recruit coders which involves a lot of sourcing candidates and when I’m sourcing I like listening to glam and punk rock!

[Jose Adrian Castillo]

The last project I work on was all inspired by Kansas.

[neoan]

Back in 2014 I was working together with the best programmer I have met to this day. He was as crazy as he was good. During one of our way-too-often "it needs to be done by tomorrow, but we have a week of outstanding work" codathons, a couple of trends hit all at once: we had standing desks and we decided not to sit down until it's done. He blasted a 5 hour dubstep playlist and soon we were hacking away to the beats as if they dictated our typing. I remember being completely in the zone for hours and none of us spoke a word for most of the night. Although exhausting, it was a magical experience.

[Bogdan Covrig]

I 100% recall getting my first laptop at 16 and coding computer science problems (some sort of leetcode nowadays) with Lana Del Rey on loop THE WHOLE NIGHT. Not even sure why, never had a Lana phase or liked her music that much, but it was just comforting mixing Lana tears with coding tears 👀

[Ben Halpern]

Perfect answer

[Adarsh Pandya]

Try listening indie classicals , absolute boosters to productivity 💯

[Youssef Rabei]

I always code (or do anything really) listening to my favorite singer Sigrid but when I want to really focus I listen to my all-time favorite music The Theory of everything Movie soundtrack
And Thanks to one of many of your amazing features I can embed them

[Syed Faraaz Ahmad]

Everybody knows by Sigrid is amazing! And if you know what happened behind the scenes in the making of the justice league movie, it all makes sense

[erica (she/her)]

Finally Moving - Pretty Lights always takes me back to bootcamp! Music was always on, and that song was a staple.

[Michel Renaud]

I have too much of a diverse playlist (multiple albums during the day) these days to pinpoint one, but when I was in university in the early '90s, I remember working on my Algorithms class assignments almost exclusively listening to Motörhead.