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What annoys you while coding?

Matvey Romanov on February 26, 2021

Hi, Dev community. Do you want to discuss what or who annoys you while working? Maybe someone has some ideas on how to solve these problems. Let m...
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cbloss

Lots of commented out code that have been there forever for no reason whatsoever.

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Julie

Unused packages in package.json

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Matvey Romanov

Yeah, phone calls are really annoying

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Heather Williams

Generally any noise around me (I cannot afford noise cancelling headphones alas).
Slack and email notifications which are often critical to respond to timeously.
My pet and my landlords pets can also be very distracting if I am working at home.
Spaghetti code where you have to follow the trail through multiple functions before you can even begin to make changes.

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Jez McKean

Noise-cancelling headphones aren't actually very good at that kind of noise, only for general background hum etc.

I find that listening to white or brown noise, along with music, helps.

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Chance Smith • Edited

My team and I spent time adding or fixing the tools I need (jest, webpack, babel, node versions, etc...), instead of getting the real problem solved....adding/fixing a feature.

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wanmaoor

isn't it a good solution for intellisense in vscode yet ?

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Dominik Gorczyca

Getting called while being focused on something.

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official_dulin

Weakly typed languages, such as JS, Python

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Durga Pokharel

My laptop freezes sometimes and the mystery guy from next apartment sings in loud. :P

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wanmaoor

Fix bugs from colleagues.

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Dumte Nwidoobee Joshua

I got provoke after trying to fix an issue, the issue may be fixed but I'll end up rubbishing my work. Then at the end I'll feel bad and discouraged in coding.