 If I feel I'm not "done" with a programming task at the end of my work day, I leave myself detailed notes on what to do the next morning. Like: the next ~3 things I think I am going to need to do (update function X, run the tests, investigate function Y if the tests fail, etc). I've attached this morning's notes-to-myself. Basically this lets me just "follow orders" at the start of my work day and ease my brain back into a place where I can start thinking at 100% 15 comments | Expand all CWs
@whoisgina we tried white board paint but it was on an outer, non-drywall wall, and it did not take very well  @darius imagining you writing "deploy to prod" all over the exterior of your house and courtney right behind you, painting over it @darius @whoisgina melamine boards from home depot! they're like 8x4' white boards that cost $30. downside is they're So Heavy @andypressman @darius oh right these were the #1 occupational hazard at rumors but they're amazing  @darius @andypressman @whoisgina I was told very emphatically that the person using this office hated all whiteboards because the bounce and he had to be able to write directly onto the wall; furthermore he insisted the dry erase paint worked well so I haven’t been looking into any other options because I wasn’t aware there was an issue that needed solving @courtney @andypressman @whoisgina 1) melamine boards don't bounce 2) this is merely for future reference! I think my wall works fine for me @courtney @andypressman @whoisgina well, or for when the seasons shift and the whiteboard wall cracks to the point of being unusable  @darius Doing that kind of thing also helps me put the task down at the end of the day so I'm not endlessly repeating those ~3 things to myself trying not to forget.  @darius Maybe this is why I suck as a developer (lol), but I find this to be a very fine line...once I start jotting down pseudocode, that project is probably *never* getting finished. The puzzle is gone, it's just translation, and that's the most boring task in the world :) So I find it's important to only ask questions. "Why the f- does this query take so long?" will get solved first thing in the morning, but "try adding an index to this table" is a recipe for procrastination! |
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@darius did you write this on the side of your garage