vdizzle

Do you have particular snacks? Do you take your laptop to a public place with wifi? Is there some kind of ritual that gets you into the mood to write code?

I don't program in my job, so coding in free time has been a wonderful creative outlet. These past few weeks, however, have been a slog to open the IDE; often distracting myself instead with watching edu material on writing better unit tests, binge reading HN, etc.

One new habit which has somewhat worked was inspired by Neil Gaiman's writing process (ie. sitting in a quiet place where the only two choices are to write or do nothing until boredom inspires writing) - I've started sitting at home, without music and with a notebook, where the only two choices are to do nothing or write pseudo code for the immediate next exciting feature.

As you may have guessed, at this moment this new process isn't quite working; curious to hear from anyone who enjoys coding at home / in free time: what does your lifestyle around those programming hours look like? Thanks!