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Hieu Nguyen
Hieu Nguyen

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How Many Hours Do You Code In a Day During a Crisis

coding during a pandemic

At the time of writing this, I was under locked down due to the coronavirus. There was not a lot that I could do to pass the time. I could waste time on youtube or browse the latest viral news. Instead, I decided to code and learn something new while I’m at it. Yeah yeah, “overachiever over hurr”. What? I like to code. Coding and A LOT of free time is a perfect combination.

For the last week or so, I have put in an average of 6-8 hrs a day ≈ a full day job without the pay.

So what about you? What crisis are you in right now? How has that affected your productivity?

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Aditya Mitra

To be honest, my hours at coding have doubled in this crisis situation.
The only problem is since I am coding at this level, I facing some bugs which are taking a long time for me fix.
If only someone could help me out with some frontend web!

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Hieu Nguyen

what is your stack and what kind of issues are you running into?

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Aditya Mitra

I am currently developing on HTML+CSS+JS. I need help in this stack.
Actually, I am stuck with some pieces of code which I am unable to figure out how to get them working.

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Hieu Nguyen

It is probably best if you follow me and we can start a private chat. I don't want to overcrowd the thread.

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Sonia

I have been coding 8-9 hours per day in order to finish a couple of opened projects ASAP. I'm almost done now and, as the two other projects I was about to start working on have been postponed because of the covid-19 crisis, I'm afraid I'm going to have a lot of hours to work on side projects.

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Hieu Nguyen

“I'm afraid I'm going to have a lot of hours to work on side projects“ , the sentiment is mutual 😄