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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Staying up late because I am sooooo close to figuring out my why my code isn't working...
Working only when deadline is really close.
Indirect Procrastination I guess
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 >_<
ugh i feel that in this very moment.
I do this all the time. It's so easy to get pulled deep I to a problem
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"
pushing to master
Be awake until late night having work the next day
Hofstadter's Law:
Showing client the project at 80% and forgetting the remaining 20% takes 80% of time.
Always forgets to go to sleep and results in sleeping at 6:00 am :3 :>
Not writing test cases. :(
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.
I do the same everyday
"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"
Procrastination