I used to. On evenings as well. Then I discovered I'm much more productive if I have periods when I'm not coding. It creates hype and anticipation, like when I'm longing for playing a video game or reading a book.
Usually that's the time when I get to do coding for my personal projects or stacks I want to test.
As I grow older, I tend to use my weekends to stay away from the computer.
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I prefer stay out on weekends, or just planning some improvements in my codebase, but out of computer to enjoy weekends: family time and make some peaceful environment to re focus for the next week
i did. then i got married and got a child. priorities changed for the better. if you let your brain chill and think of other than programmering on the weekends, it will be of better use on the weekdays when you work. the brain need to do and focus on other stuff to keep it in a healthy state and also needs to rest from coding. this way will make you a better and well balanced programmer and worker. subjectivley my opinion ofc.
A little, i started blogging a little (nonpublic), while i work i sometimes find something silly that is not really worth much focus/time, i make notes or a small codepen and when i feel like it on the weekend i work on it and more or less pretend to write a blog post about it as if i had an audience just to improve my approach to learning and communicate better. It has become like a little no pressure hobby and i enjoy the writing part. Also the blog is in english so i practice english as an additional benefit.
Sometimes. It really depends on whether there's something interesting going on in my head that I want to put into code.
I don't really enjoy putting building blocks together into a product and would much rather just spend my time dicking around with random language features, so I mostly end up building my own micro-frameworks for everything, then when I'm done with them I don't have anything to use them for so I move on to the next thing :D
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Yes why not? It gives us time work on personal projects or get ahead in the game.
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I used to. On evenings as well. Then I discovered I'm much more productive if I have periods when I'm not coding. It creates hype and anticipation, like when I'm longing for playing a video game or reading a book.
Usually that's the time when I get to do coding for my personal projects or stacks I want to test.
As I grow older, I tend to use my weekends to stay away from the computer.
I always code, specially on the weekends.
For sure, for me, it's the time I get to explore new areas of dev, like right now I'm trying to learn WebGL.
Yes these unemployed days because recruiters constantly distract me during the week. Not usually when I have a job, but sometimes.
I prefer stay out on weekends, or just planning some improvements in my codebase, but out of computer to enjoy weekends: family time and make some peaceful environment to re focus for the next week
i did. then i got married and got a child. priorities changed for the better. if you let your brain chill and think of other than programmering on the weekends, it will be of better use on the weekdays when you work. the brain need to do and focus on other stuff to keep it in a healthy state and also needs to rest from coding. this way will make you a better and well balanced programmer and worker. subjectivley my opinion ofc.
Hell yay!
Depends on the workload. If I've got a project to do, then whenever I can fit it in...
A little, i started blogging a little (nonpublic), while i work i sometimes find something silly that is not really worth much focus/time, i make notes or a small codepen and when i feel like it on the weekend i work on it and more or less pretend to write a blog post about it as if i had an audience just to improve my approach to learning and communicate better. It has become like a little no pressure hobby and i enjoy the writing part. Also the blog is in english so i practice english as an additional benefit.
Yep!
Sometimes. It really depends on whether there's something interesting going on in my head that I want to put into code.
I don't really enjoy putting building blocks together into a product and would much rather just spend my time dicking around with random language features, so I mostly end up building my own micro-frameworks for everything, then when I'm done with them I don't have anything to use them for so I move on to the next thing :D
Of course