[wocg]

make programming in my head possible again. Not sure if i'll ever get there but I will die trying

Is it due to age that you can no longer do this, or something else? Good luck with it! I've never actually "programmed in my head", but I definitely think about my projects while out hiking or whatever.

[tluyben2]

It is because of the many many libaries you need now to make something. When I get to write embedded or doing algorithms then I do my best work walking in nature but that is only like 10% of the job. The rest involves looking up library docs or stackoverflow help for badly written, fast changing libraries. The last time it worked were Django APIs. Django is actually stable and we use only multi year stable libs. But frontend: I cannot remember the 1000s of edge cases and they also change per library often. Outside JQuery I guess.