1) Get out of bed. It's easy, and quite tempting, when working from home, to work slouched over/under your laptop in bed. It's not doing you any favours in terms of your work/life separation, and I doubt it's good for your posture.
2) Stay connected. Either with co-workers on something like Slack, or with other developers on something like Twitter or dev.to. Most of us really enjoy talking shop, and if you don't make a deliberate effort to chat to peers, it's easy to feel like you're working from a prison cell.
3) No procrasticleaning. Unless you're deliberately taking advantage of the flexible hours that working from home gives you, avoid getting pulled away by errands that "only take a minute" during work time. Before you know it, you'll have a sparkling house and that horrible feature that you've been putting off because it's too complicated will be no closer to completion.
As for stopping work at a certain time, my partner tends to let me know if I'm dilly-dallying on the computer for too long after clocking off time. 😅
I only have a few tips:
1) Get out of bed. It's easy, and quite tempting, when working from home, to work slouched over/under your laptop in bed. It's not doing you any favours in terms of your work/life separation, and I doubt it's good for your posture.
2) Stay connected. Either with co-workers on something like Slack, or with other developers on something like Twitter or dev.to. Most of us really enjoy talking shop, and if you don't make a deliberate effort to chat to peers, it's easy to feel like you're working from a prison cell.
3) No procrasticleaning. Unless you're deliberately taking advantage of the flexible hours that working from home gives you, avoid getting pulled away by errands that "only take a minute" during work time. Before you know it, you'll have a sparkling house and that horrible feature that you've been putting off because it's too complicated will be no closer to completion.
As for stopping work at a certain time, my partner tends to let me know if I'm dilly-dallying on the computer for too long after clocking off time. 😅
I consistently underestimate how important this is.