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What are your worst habits as a developer?

The format of our first official DEV Podcast, DevDiscuss, begins with an interview and ends with commentary from the community.

This week, our topic is habit building and productivity hacks. We want to know:

  • What are your worst habits as a developer?
  • What are your best habit building and productivity hacks?

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ β€’

pushing to master

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Jennifer Tran β€’

One of my worst habits as a developer is being too much in my head and forgetting about my body. By that I mean ignoring my need to use the restroom, having bad posture, and forgetting to eat at times >_<

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Jess Lee β€’

ugh i feel that in this very moment.

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Imam Ali Mustofa β€’

Actually, as a human being, I need have to talk with other people and have sex too... sometimes I forget my wife while going project. Ah is bad!
FYI: my wife is a programmer too, and it sounds like "Aarrgghh"

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Waylon Walker β€’

I do this all the time. It's so easy to get pulled deep I to a problem

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Matthieu Cneude β€’

I have difficulties to stop when I can't solve a problem, and I try again and again till exhaustion. However, most of the time, when I stop and come back to it later or the day after, I find the solutions in less than 20 minutes.

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Yury β€’

"Okay, this clearly didn't work. Now let's do it for an hour because I cannot think of anything else that could work"
...
Next morning
...
"Hm, did I try this? Oh, it works. Now I just need to explain why changing 10 lines of code took me 6 hours"

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TheGardenMan β€’

I do the same everyday

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Madza β€’ β€’ Edited

Hofstadter's Law:
Showing client the project at 80% and forgetting the remaining 20% takes 80% of time.

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Ghazi Khan β€’

Not writing test cases. :(

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Joe Doss β€’ β€’ Edited

Staying up late because I am sooooo close to figuring out my why my code isn't working...

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski β€’

My worst thing is not reading the documentation enough :D

I have this habit that I only skim through the documentation and think that I now understand it :D

Instead, I should read it once but good :D

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Eddie β€’ β€’ Edited

When I'm not in the zone and am confronted with a difficult problem, I tend to open a new browser tab and waste time on FB, Twitter, etc. It's my brain saying "I don't wanna!"

That's why when I work now, I change my hosts file to block my bad habits.

0.0.0.0         www.facebook.com
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Zubair Mohsin β€’

Working only when deadline is really close.

Indirect Procrastination I guess

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Macaulay Uzu β€’

Procrastination

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