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Discussion on: Longtime devs: Have you rekindled your love of coding after losing the spark at any point in your career?

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Jason C. McDonald

I only start losing my love of coding when I start getting burned out and codeblind on one project. The cure is usually to take a break and pick up something completely different!

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Rose Day

Codeblind - that is an interesting term, never heard that one before. 😄

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Jason C. McDonald

I can't remember where I picked it up, but it's a term for that phenomenon when you've been working on the same code for so long, you can no longer see the obvious.

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Michiel Hendriks

That's a really good term for it. I'm going to remember it.

It goes well with this quote

"One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile." - Oscar Godson

Walk away to prevent/cure codeblindness.

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Sabin Pandelovitch • Edited

A good solution for me in this case is to go and answer some SO questions, the advantage is that it's not time consuming but effective and I'm not losing focus

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Harsh D

Lol...
I just refer to it as coders block