time to code

The one bug programmers cannot patch: procrastination.

My hyper focus makes me a good programmer. Unfortunately I only activate it every couple days. With their powers combined… I’m worth keeping employed. 👍🏻
- Oh god, I feel this in my soul. I feel so fortunate that most people only see the running average of my work output and not a live feed of what I'm actually spending my time doing.
- Big same.
- I'm not a dev, but I'm on the infrastructure side of the house, and this is me to a T
- If it works right?
  
  That's what I always say.

Coding is best done late at night when you wish you were asleep but there's that one bug...

I think it's more related to the fact that it's when there is no distractions at all. At least for me that's probably the reason. No colleagues asking dumb questions, no pointless meeting, nearly no notification whatsoever.
- Yup, things are nice and quiet when everyone's asleep.
  
  I'm really lucky that I work from home, my jobs timezone is 2h behind me, and my wife leaves for work at 10am when my work day is starting.

I work 9a-5p and I do my best work after 11pm.

I'm glad I'm not the only one
For me it's 7am-3:30pm and I do all my work between 7am and the daily at 9:30am. After that it's just meetings and bullshitting on the internet. Everyone is satisfied with my work.

marks 8 on timecard

I don't drink coffee. You can imagine my day.

This is actually about Daylight Savings Time

Why is it this way?

ADHD
- Oh no
Because we didn't evolve to survive in a capitalist society
- I often wonder about this. Does capitalism impose so much emotional freight that it makes coding intimidating? Does having it attached to ideas about working hard and getting a job drain the fun out of it?
  
  I'm beginning to think that I would actually get more coding done if I abandoned it as a career path.
- no that can't be right it's probably a personal failing that I should internalise and maybe spend money on /s

Jokes on you but I get my best ideas at night

I just wish I got them during the day, when I'm getting paid

Make it an Irish coffee and you'll get there faster. My sweet spot was ~3 beers in an hour and I could suddenly code better (and it wasn't the alcohol talking).

Relevant xkcd
- There's something similar with cannabis as well. Just a buzz and I'm a laser, even slightly more and suddenly I can't remember the process I was working on.
- Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.

that late night working fugue state