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Tina Huynh
Tina Huynh

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Late nights or early mornings?

Do you rather work in the cold night air? Or wake up bright and early with a cup of coffee in your hand?

Before everyone is awake? Or after everyone is asleep?

I personally can never make up my mind...sometimes it's one and then there are phases when it's the opposite!

Happy coding!

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Erin Mikail Staples

Early mornings, by far — I find myself making too many mistakes at night and feeling overwhelmed by things that happened in my day.

Starting the day off with clarity is something that provides me with a fresh mind to take a peek at problems and actually find solutions.

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Tina Huynh

Early mornings definitely feels great :) good morning

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Jeremy Friesen

One of my absolute favorite times to work is up an hour or two before the dawn.

I take my dogs outside and marvel at the stars, then come back in and write or drowse. I find that I'm not yet awake and have access to both my waking mind and my fleeting dreaming mind. I jot down todo items maybe a poem or begin free writing about a problem.

I live around the 43rd north latitude, so this strategy works best in our winter, when dawn arrives around 8am or so.

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Tina Huynh

Before dawn? Hmm....that'd be around 4 am. Right around when I'd wake up (ideally) most days. But normally if I stay in bed a little later, like today for instance, I get up around 6 am when the sun rises.

I feel like I get the most done in the morning when everything's peacefully quiet.

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Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

Years of bad sleep habits conditioned me to prefer late nights. I often get a last spurt of energy somewhere between 10PM and midnight.

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Tina Huynh

I was oftentimes the same.... to the point that I sometimes found myself going to sleep when others were waking up some days. It got bad... so I decided to switch up my sleeping schedule one day and now I tend to stick with the early mornings.

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Richard Guay

My brain shuts down around 8pm-9pm depending on the day. I usually get to bed around 9pm and get up at 5:00am. So, I guess I’m a morning person!

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Constantin

Monday early Fridays late.
Picking the times no one is around

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Camilo

In my personal preference early mornings are more peaceful and easily focus. Late nights are for doing chores that do not require much mental power.

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Ben Halpern

I can occasionally enjoy a late night coding session, but definitely more likely to jive with an early morning session these days.

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Tina Huynh

I am very similar to you in that sense. The night sessions are very peaceful at times. Sometimes that cool air and change of atmosphere and vibe is a breath of fresh air but I definitely do enjoy the mornings a lot better.

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Dom Grad

Getting work done in the morning 100%. Sets up the rest of the day up for success. Everytime i say to myself that I'll finish something in the evening it never happens 😅

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Tina Huynh

Really? You must naturally be more of an early bird than a night owl

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Patrick Wendo

After everyone is asleep. It's a habit I picked up in campus. I used to live in a rather noisy building. But between 2am to about 9am it was always silent. And I could get most of my studying then. Now Even if I am in a very silent place, I still find comfort in working at night. And If I can't, I manufacture it. Blackout curtains, noise cancelling headphones and if I could control the weather, I would probably also make it as cold as possible. Works like a charm to get my productivity up.

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Scott Muangsrichan

Early mornings for me! I tend to get my best work done in the early morning hours like 4am , 5am versus later at night. Though I haven't been working in those early morning just from a lack of discipline. Not getting up at the time I should be. I'm going to work at getting back into that routine.

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Liviu Lupei

why not both

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Medea

Definitely in the morning before everyone is awake! Nothing better than coding in the peace and quiet

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Saeed

I'm kind of confused, sometimes in the morning I'm fully motivated and I'll achieve a lot in 2 hours, and sometimes the other way around I'll wait until midnight and start coding and such until dawn