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Damir Franusic

In my case, it's because I'm a perfectionist most of the time, and refuse to do ad-hoc solutions. That being said, I tend to always under-estimate the time needed to finish the project.

On the other hand, when I'm laser focused and free of distractions, I seem to be able to summon a huge amount of coding mantra, and produce more quality code that I ever expected to be possible. To paraphrase the last sentence; I sometimes still manage to surprise myself, even after 20 years of coding.

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Luke Garrigan

I love that feeling, somedays you feel like you could just take any ticket and code it up in a few minutes, embracing that inner 10x.

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Jaime López

Me too!!!

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Krisztina Závecz

Same here! Trance, deep house, lowkey tech... 😎🎵