Which day of the week do you get your best coding work done?

Whether a matter of personal productivity or circumstance, which part of the week is best for your most personally productive work.

Please get into details of what makes you productive on those days — whether it is how meetings typically stack up or otherwise.

Comments

[Dendi Handian]

not monday, nor friday

[Keff]

Acurate

[DevFranPR]

minimalWage === this

[Kristine Gusta]

I will be the odd one but I will say - Monday ! It is the first office day of the week (we have a hybrid setting) , and you still have energy from the weekend.

[Jessica Veit]

Same here! I generally fill my free time with other activities than coding, so on Mondays I am so hyped to finally get it started again 🤩

[Ridhwana Khan]

The day that I have no meetings :D

[JoelBonetR 🥇]

No meetings? Does that even exist? 😱

[Augusts Bautra]

Productivity must cluster in the middle of the week. Monday is for gearing up and by Friday I'm exhausted. Used to be I moved mountains on Thursdays, but nowadays it's the meeting day. Should probably change that.

[Ben Halpern]

I'll go first: We have "no meeting Fridays" which are pretty great for a certain type of productivity, but it's also a way to ease into the weekend, so I don't try to make those the maximally productive days.

By Wednesday and Thursday, most key communication is behind me — as well as a lot of my "critical tasks" and I can usually get some good stuff done on more creative work those days.

[Chris Greening]

Hmmm never thought about it before but definitely Thursday:

• knocked out tedious chores earlier in the week
• built up momentum and cleared away post-weekend brain fog
• almost EOW so I have motivation to be productive otherwise weekend work
• we schedule a lot of internal and client meetings for M-W so Th is the first day I can jump into an IDE and just hack away without interruption
• excited for the weekend but not so excited that I can still focus

[Diner Das]

Sunday on a side project I really care about. Saturdays tend to be home chore days.

[Ayu Adiati]

Tuesday - Thursday are the best days for me.

We do big house chores on weekends, so I usually take Monday and Friday a bit slow, like do some blog writing and watch/read tutorials with a little house chores in between 😁

[Jacob Enders]

Friday.

On Monday I feel like I have a mountain of upcoming work.

But on Friday, I have that sense that 90% of the weeks tasks are finished. I can then enter Zen mode and work on things that I didn't expect to get to this week. I am way more productive when I can work in Zen mode.

[Keff]

For me, it's usually Wednesdays or Thursdays. Mondays are packed with meetings and management stuff, and on Fridays, I'm usually quite exhausted and we do sprint reviews each 2 weeks, so not the most productive for me.

Wednesday and Thursday I can get work done most of the day if I don't have too many PRs to review. On a good Thursday, I can get a straight 4h block of coding time at most (usually less)

It's been a while since I've had one of those coding days where you spend all day coding... I kinda miss those 😔

Regarding Tuesdays, I don't believe they exist xD