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What is your favorite music to listen to when programming?
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When I am doing programming that needs real mental concentration, I'm usually not listening to any music. But if I'm doing something that doesn't really need any concentration on my computer, I might be listening to Bon Jovi.
Fair enough when you need to concentrate! Thanks for sharing Tyler :D
A little John Scofield station usually hits the spot.
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and does listening to bon jovi help?
Definitely not when coding, but when doing repetitive tasks, it can sometimes
That's amazing
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Bon Jovi is great!
Love Bon Jovi.
That makes sense. I usually prefer quiet for deep debugging too, but light background music can be nice for routine tasks.
have you ever tried listening to the likes of James Arthur in the background while working?
No, I have not. Have you?
Yeah I do....almost every single day...you should try it sometime
I'm an otaku engineer from Japan🤓
I work on ML, NLP, data science, mathematical optimization, and I occasionally write papers too!
While I'm coding I'm basically always listening to anime songs or game music. Right now I'm hooked on the anime Girls Band Cry and have its soundtrack on permanent repeat. It's THE GOAT🐐
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I also just published my first article here, The Otaku's Guide to LLMs The title's a little spicy, but don't worry: inside it's a fun, meme-stuffed walkthrough of LLMs that goes all the way down to the implementation code and the math. Hope you enjoy it❤
Hey otaku!
Hey 👋 Marvin here. I'm the solo founder of AccidentLawyerReview, an independent public-data directory of US truck-accident lawyers. I've been gradually transforming it into a small data journalism shop on the side. My most recent project was a Vision Zero report card for 19 US cities, built using Astro and Python with NHTSA FARS data. I spent an embarrassingly long time debugging invisible
<strong>tags in Astro JSX, which will probably become the subject of my first post here.I joined dev.to because solo work can be isolating, and I miss the energy of seeing what others are creating. I'm looking forward to discovering what everyone else is building.
My question of the week concerns ambient and film scores. I'm currently looping Nils Frahm and the Arrival soundtrack. Anything with lyrics disrupts my focus, but ambient pads have the opposite effect.
Excited to be here 🙌
Hey Marvin, same reason I joined -- building in isolation gets old. Looking forward to seeing what the community is working on.
Microsoft Teams ringtone 🤯😅
I like to turn on different Youtube ambient music vids, something constant always helps me lock in
I'm deep into psychedelic stoner rock in the moment haha
excellent
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I don't know why but music distracts me while i'm coding, so i don't listen to any music. But in my free time i listen to paganini.
What is your favorite music to listen to when programming?
so my answer as a Pakistani Would Be Aarzu and Anuv Jain Songs
"Pruina" by They Dream By Day or Riverfree by Boil the Ocean. Carl Orff, and sometimes Aretha Franklin's Nessun Dorma
I'm going to go with Grover Washington Jr. for "work" music. It's got comforting funk, driving tempos, great melody and harmony, and clears out all environmental sounds for me.
Any type of muic
ah does not work for me! If it's too intense, I can concentrate weel :O
Hi!
Well mostly listen to sound tracks I have published on Pirate FM play list as pre release feedback to game development.
Are you referring to the Pirate FM radio station, or a custom playlist?
AK Sports - Work harder
Bella Ciao from Money Heist
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Pink Floyd!
This week i'm listening to The Numbers form Radiohead on repeat. I dont know why, but this song is stuck in my mind.
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my absolute gooooo to, is definitely classical music. I swear even back i high school it would make me work so much better!
If I’m doing deep work or debugging, I usually need silence. But for easier coding or cleanup work, I’ll put on rap, Bollywood music, or random YouTube mixes in the background.
hello
Bach, Vivaldi, or classical guitar music!
Hey Dev.to!
I'm Nitish, a Full-Stack & AI Engineer. I build scalable web apps and AI agents using React, Node, Python & LangChain. Excited to share code, AI workflows, and dev tips here.
Portfolio: nitishkumar.pro/
Welcome Nitish. Checked out your portfolio. The GKE multi-tenancy and zero-downtime PostgreSQL migration work caught my eye. That's the kind of infrastructure problem most teams underestimate until they're already in it. Building VeloxSync has given me a real appreciation for engineers who think about systems architecture before things break. Good to have you here.
wow nice design and animations!
Hey Nitish! Welcome to DEV :D
Glad you came to this community! Was wondering your favorite part of being a Full Stack dev. Also a Full Stack here as well!
Thanks :D
Hey Dev.to community!
I'm Patrick, Software Engineer focused on Automation & AI. Looking forward to sharing ideas and experiences with the community!
See you around!
Hey Patrick! Welcome to DEV! How long have you been a SWE for and what's your favorite part about Automation and AI? Regardless, hope your journey on DEV goes well :D
Hello, thank you so much! I've been a software engineer for two years now. I love development involving artificial intelligence because the evolution is so rapid that we learn new things every day, we can constantly optimize our development methods, and we can create increasingly powerful systems ;)
Hello Patrick! I haven't done a lot of automation. What is your favorite automation project you made?
Hey Tyler! I've been using Claude Code for development for a while now. For a personal project, I decided to develop a small tool. The idea is that, starting from a blueprint, I can generate a multi-agent AI system and a workflow to follow. This way, Claude Code can then be completely autonomous (with human validation) to develop a desired application from start to finish. You can find this tool on my GitHub: github.com/patricksardinha/agentki... :D
hey everyone!!
Hi, I'm a Python-focused developer and technical writer building small, reproducible engineering projects around APIs, data processing, and developer tools.
That’s a very nice description. What types of data do you process?
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Jeremy here! Glad to be in this community. I am mostly here to learn, meet people building interesting things, and share what I am working through as I go, technical SEO and web security, and the messy overlap where the two meet. Looking forward to trading notes with people figuring out the same problems.
Hey, I am Yelmaaz. I am a technical writer and academic editor based in Karachi. I have been using Linux daily for over a decade, currently on Debian with Sway, which means I have strong opinions about Linux tools.
I just published my first piece here, a practical user reference for Zathura. More coming on btop and Linux workflows. Glad to be here.
Hey everyone, Adam here from Friendswood, Texas. Founder of Meraki is Love, a small software studio I run under the tagline Soulful Tech. Technology built with intention and purpose.
I've been building for a while now. VeloxSync is an HR and workforce management platform, and Meraki Lingua is a language learning tool built around real conversation. Both have taught me more about product decisions, user trust, and the gap between working code and working software than any course ever could.
I'm here to stay sharp, connect with builders who care about craft, and occasionally share what I'm learning in public. Happy to be in the room.
Nice to meet you Adam. The part about the gap between working code and working software really lands. I feel like that is where most of the actual learning happens.
Meraki Lingua sounds interesting too. I like the idea of language learning being built around real conversation instead of just exercises.
Hi everyone, I’m Jingyi 👋
Lately I’ve been playing around with AI coding tools to build voice agent demos. I’m excited to learn from everyone here on dev.to and connect with more builders working on similar things.
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