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by uranian 3328 days ago
Reading the comments I have to consider myself very lucky in a way. I work full-remote.

- I never use an alarm, normally waking up around 8:30am

- I often start coding right away when I wake up, in these first 2 hours I am often exceptionally productive

- eat something, coffee, reading, relaxing

- do some more coding till I feel my focus drops

- repeat the last two steps

When I feel tired I try not to code if possible, I consider it being a bad habit.

Relaxing between the focussed coding sessions is of major importance to produce good code IMHO, while relaxing I'm often thinking about the different options of how I can best write the next piece of code.

If I have a bad day, not being really productive, I often do some more coding at night if I can get the right focus.

On a good day I outperform 2 coders that work in the open office of our company, with ease.

3 comments

Full-remote here - same workflow, same results too :)

I'm considering to switch to working 10 billable hours each day on Tue-Thu, though. I'm usually too exhausted after a working day to socialise, but not too tired to work. A 30h work-week with four days of weekend sounds pretty tempting.

I suspect you might outperform 3 coders. Going into an office is a distraction and waste.

Well written and is similar to how I code. I wish I could return remote.

Same here, except that I need the alarm. Also exercise after work.