What are your best/worst habits as a developer?

Curious to see if there are any common ones in the community:
What are you best or worst work related habits?
Why do you do them?
Do you think you need to change them?
(Can be job-specific or person-specific).

I think one of my worst is that I accidentally over-caffeinate myself - whenever I'm working I think "coffee = productivity" when in fact it makes it harder to concentrate. I'm trying to switch to water and tea in moderation.

Comments

[Quentin Sonrel]

Some of my worst habits are:

• Not being able to work/concentrate when I'm not motivated
• Needing caffeine to work efficiently if I'm not 100% interested by the task at hand
• Wanting/needing to use my tools and my environment to be efficient
• Listening to music all day when working (kinda bad for my ears and creates isolation)

[tga]

Always wanted to write my own game engine, text editor, web server, front-end web framework, formatting engine, ...... Ending up with 0 productivity and always writing tools that are not as good as other's (I'm a game maker but havn't made games in half an year)

[Helen Thackray]

So do you think that's because you try to do too many things or does something else get in the way of the productivity?

[Fatima Tariq]

I am a self educated developer. So I can tell a ton of terrible and beneficial things

1. I use remarks to investigate, evacuating certain lines of code. I don't utilize them to make the code justifiable. All things considered, if code was hard to compose, it ought to be hard to peruse.
2. I know the calculations by their complexities and not names. Barely any hours prior, somebody asked me how to parallel pursuit. I needed to Google to discover just that Binary Search is only the O(logn)O(log⁡n) look calculation.
3. I frequently will in general rethink the wheel. Since I can, and I don't realize that there is a capacity officially made for that. Recently, I made a capacity to turn around the string in C++. Just to tune in from somebody that strrev() exists. 4.The other day, I told a senior I know Python. Hello, I can code in Python effectively. What's more, they inquired as to whether I can give a workshop to learners. I requested that what themes spread and he said 'Till Classes and Objects'. I resembled, What the hellfire!! I can take up Classes in the first place, Java does that. Python can likewise. So we can't connect with what others will get it. 5.Usage of Global Variables. Took me a half year to comprehend that they are pointless basically. I used to have every one of my factors worldwide just to abstain from passing them as contentions. I said It spares Memory. 6.I use PHP in the time of Django. I know Django. I know Flask. Despite everything I use PHP. I adore it. Frequently, self educated developers get dependent on a specific content.

7.I don't will care about will's identity utilizing my code. Utilizing JavaScript, I can popup an entire bundle of ready messages. Or on the other hand perhaps I give yield utilizing the console.log(). I concur this may not be general, however regularly self educated developers tend to not realize how to put yield.

8.It works = It is great. This is great. Takes a very long time to figure it out.

That is by all accounts everything I can review!

[Haider Ali]

I think my worst habit is that i depand a lot on the internet , especially when writing code,I have never written a code from scratch in almost all my projects, each time i copy existed code on the Web and edit it depending on the need
Except when I'm facing a surious task that needs to be resolved by a programming solution

[Helen Thackray]

You say it's your worst habit, do you think you need to change it? Why/not?