Posts tagged with productivity
Jack McDade, creator of Stamatic, designer of several Laravel ecosystem sites, on his blog:
I’ve been playing video games again. I feel fantastic and my head is clearer than it’s been in a while. Here are my thoughts on the topic and why I think video games are important and not even remotely a waste of time.http://jackmcdade.com/blog/why-i-play-video-games
Dries Vints does not blog often, but when he does it's very much worth your time to read.
We all have specific ways of setting up our computer. It's all different somehow. The apps we use, our IDE settings, what shell we prefer, what programming languages we work with, the tools we prefer. How on earth are we going to get that specific setup back the way we had it before our computer broke down?https://driesvints.com/blog/getting-started-with-dotfilesEnter dotfiles.
You can find Dries' dotfiles on GitHub. Mine can be found here.
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Developers can appear very unproductive at times, sitting staring at the screen with our headphones on and very little in the way of keyboard clackety-tap. This however is when we are doing our thinking, when we are building up, adding to and rearranging the mental model of how our code will work. This is the biggest and hardest part of development.http://thetomorrowlab.com/2015/01/why-developers-hate-being-interrupted/Imagine how it feels to have that interrupted at random by a telephone call or somebody walking over to talk to you. It’s horrible.
I have met hundreds of developers. The best ones always have a side project or two that they hack away on at night. As an employer I encourage that, but I have heard that a lot of workplaces ban personal projects.http://david.elbe.me/development/2014/09/26/side-projects.htmlSo let's talk about why I think that side projects is a good thing, how I use them to get better and what you have to look out for.
https://medium.com/brigade-engineering/hacking-the-flow-state-b2451d0bf7baOften, when I’m able to slip into a state of flow while coding, I will produce more in a single afternoon than I could in several days of non-flow. Yet this is often an elusive state to obtain. Luckily, research dedicated to this topic in recent decades offers some help. Here we’ll look into both the stages of flow and how to obtain the prerequisites for flow, making it possible in the first place.