North,
@North@chaos.social avatar

Writing code by staring into space for approx. 6 days and then writing everything in an hour.

North,
@North@chaos.social avatar

Relieved to discover that this is relatable content.

cda,

@North 💯 This is why office (busy)work tracking shit like kanban, agile boards, scrum, standups, jira, etc are such a bane. It's not a blasted factory line.

Specialist_Being_677,
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@North yep totally relatable. The revelation for me, was that I wasn't being less productive during the staring portion: it was a required part of the process.

HarkMahlberg,
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@North Excruciatingly.

gerbilengineer,

@North

Isn't that how everyone works? 🤔

overflo,

@North the only way there ever was.

dragonarchitect,
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@North hahahahahFUCK 🙃

gwcoffey,
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@North It is an irony that the best way to figure out a tricky bit of code is to stop working on it.

datacequia,

@North 😝 I’ve never found writing code to be a linear progression activity

javorszky,

@North days 1-6: mentally putting together all the bits and actually solving all the hard problems :D

oz,

@North so... by "starting into space" you mean "doom scrolling", right?

#askingForAFriend

JacGoudsmit,

@North And let me guess. Bug free?
Or did the one hour not happen after 10pm?

tim1724,
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@North is there any other way?

jbu,

@North hammock-driven development is the best

nate,

@North you’re charging the move like a pokémon

MarioMakesStuff,

@North See, code IS creative!

brianm,
@brianm@hachyderm.io avatar

@North @bobmcwhirter this is normal, right?

isagalaev,
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@North yep. The hard part is filling your stand-up updates with something during those 6 days.

ChuckMcManis,

@North This is why I think coding is more like art than like science.

PsySal,
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@North you're hired!!

KitsuneAlex,

@North Pre-charging your brain

13bit,

@North Glad I’m not the only one who does this. 🙃

talldarknweirdo,

@North this is often how circuit design goes for me. By the time I'm in KiCad I usually have a lot of it already in my head.

scanlime,
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    North,
    @North@chaos.social avatar

    @scanlime OH, yeah, the anxiety is load-bearing

    indiealexh,
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    @North @scanlime we talking about programming while on ADHD?

    janusfox,
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    @North I mean, you're not wrong hah

    jdmcg,
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    @North as someone who routinely has to price programmer time, I would suggest this was fairly accurate for a 'quick' job.

    thomasfuchs,
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    @North 6x programmer

    terrygrundy,
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    @North

    https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/08/15/henri-poincare-on-how-creativity-works/

    joyographic,

    @North Don't forget the six days you spend staring at the code after that, figuring out why it did what you told it to and not what you wanted.

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