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What's playing in your headphones while you code?

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Emanuele Bartolesi

I use Endel app for focusing.

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Paul Frame

The Dark Knight’s soundtrack

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Ben Halpern

Oh that sounds great

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Chris Pahla

Jay Z 4:44

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Madzz Srestha

Right now Lost on You by LP. What I listen to varies with my mood and what I am working on.

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Billy
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Yerkon

thanks

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Phil Thomas

Thanks! I'm going to give this a listen this morning.

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James Hood

+1

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Callum Messiter

The entire soundtrack to the Lord of the Rings trilogy is great. A day of writing code can sometimes feel like a bare-footed journey from the comfort of the Shire to an ork-surrounded volcano via the lair of a giant man-eating spider, so it's really quite thematically appropriate: youtu.be/_SBQvd6vY9s

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Daniel Waller (he/him)

Yes! Bit too dark sometimes but works great anytime after lunch

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Mike 🀘

Usually heavy and high-energy. Usually metal. I put together some of my favorites albums and removed anything that wasn't high-tempo: open.spotify.com/user/mikengarrett...

If you're looking for somethign new, here's the best metal releases from 2016: open.spotify.com/user/mikengarrett...

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Ghost

Oh yes, metal, dubstep or anything high energy. An absolute must!

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Daniel Mason

Exactly the same here. It works so well.

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Brian Hanna

Same here, preferably with harsh, mostly indecipherable vocals. Prevents me from getting distracted by the lyrics.

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TPiddy

Agreed.... metal of all kinds, though I tend to shy away from doom/black/death...

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Carlton Hanna

I usually forget to put headphones on. Once I start coding time flies and I forget about music. When I do remember, I find music without too much lyrics does the trick. Mogwai is a good band to listen to.

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Ben Halpern

You must not work in an open office!

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Jess Lee

YES. Mogwai all day everyday.

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Jordan Roskelley
  • Fastfall Dustforce OST
  • Tron/Tron Remix
  • Chipzel/FantomenK/EnV (electronic, not rap)
  • Dunderpatrullen/Rymdkraft/Bossfight
  • Lindsey Stirling
  • Moby (esp Play)
  • Fatboy Slim
  • The Glitch Mob
  • 65daysofstatic
  • Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy
  • Muse
  • David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat disc 2
  • Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire
  • Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (as embarrassing as that is)
  • Papa Roach/Disturbed/Evanescence ...probably more
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Kinna Thompson

Ludovico Einaudi! I love Divenire, especially when I'm frustrated by something. I haven't tried Lindsey Stirling while working, but I'll have to now!

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Phil

Love the range there. Add the Atmospheric Black Metal playlist from Spotify and Netsky dnb stuff. Mood dependant always.

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Erika Wiedemann

I'm usually creeping my spotify discover playlist for Liquid / DnB tracks, and chill EDM. Nice, ethereal background.

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Eric Ekong

Very similar. Chilled dubstep, a lot of instrumental hip-hop (anything by Blue Sky Black Death!) ambient tracks. I try to stay away from action movie soundtracks because the turns of pace make me anxious.

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sechaba tsotetsi

Try Aso on soundcloud real cool

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Eric Ekong

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Ben Halpern

So you're usually looking for new tracks, or do you listen to the same ones a lot?

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Erika Wiedemann

It's about a 50/50 split. When I really need to focus, I use songs I know I like from my saved (most of which came from discover). When I can focus a little less, I casually look for new ones.

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Gabe Dunn

That's pretty much what I'll do.

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