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by kossTKR 2382 days ago
I am working in web-dev at the moment and to be completely honest i have professional projects where i often push ridiculously chaotic code, because of time restraints.

I feel like most times i could have chosen a better way to do things, but i have to get things done quickly because the todo list is so long. It's difficult choice between technical debt versus slow but beautiful/robust architecture.

Working in my own company i often weigh the options between pushing often and fast, having a good deployment process that you can easily rollback, good error notification and being good in a debugger versus slow mindful development.

Trust me i would like to slow way down and really think things through, make interesting diagrams, think about the philosophy of different process and scenarios, drink a good cup of coffee and look out the window for half an hour pondering - but i feel like that's a privilege i don't have right now.

Though i try to meditate and to take a step back every day to slow things down and get a better overview.

I also feel like internet surfing, stack overflow, and screen use in general trains you quickly to get a completely fragmented way of focusing and remembering that we all need to actively fight if we want to regain clarity, focus, insight or beauty in what we do.