How is their personal life, family life, friends, work environment and everything that you can think that a programmer does throughout the day?
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How is their personal life, family life, friends, work environment and everything that you can think that a programmer does throughout the day?
Fun All of the above doesn’t leave much time for fun. To keep my sanity, I squeeze every bit of free time out of life to ensure that I’m not missing out on opportunities. Of course spending time with my family is fun, but for the sake of separation I’ll be excluding that time from this section (I feRead more
Fun
All of the above doesn’t leave much time for fun. To keep my sanity, I squeeze every bit of free time out of life to ensure that I’m not missing out on opportunities. Of course spending time with my family is fun, but for the sake of separation I’ll be excluding that time from this section (I feel I did the Family section justice). As part of my free time at home I enjoy building side projects. I love creating beautiful web applications that could benefit the lives of others. My passion is creating things for others through programming. I love the feeling I get when someone enjoys something I’ve made. I can’t get enough of it. I’ve started hundreds of side projects, “finished” a few (is a project ever really finished?) and am working on a promising one right now. I love it and can’t get enough, but I pace myself so that I don’t squander precious time with my family.
See lessFriends Thanks to the reality of what I’ve stated above, time with my friends has come to a halt as of late. I don’t boil this down to being a programmer, though. It’s much more aligned with a change in priorities. In the past year I’ve graduated from college, gotten married, and brought our first-bRead more
Friends
Thanks to the reality of what I’ve stated above, time with my friends has come to a halt as of late. I don’t boil this down to being a programmer, though. It’s much more aligned with a change in priorities. In the past year I’ve graduated from college, gotten married, and brought our first-born into the world. Combine those three with getting plunged into the working world and it’s a lot at once. I might be an edge case, and I hope to change it someday, but as of right now that’s life.
See lessFamily For programmers whose work isn’t the most important area of their life, the family is. In my case, everything I do is motivated by my family. I don’t currently get to spend as much time with my wife and son as I’d like, but I hope to be in a position that allows me to spend more time them relRead more
Family
For programmers whose work isn’t the most important area of their life, the family is. In my case, everything I do is motivated by my family. I don’t currently get to spend as much time with my wife and son as I’d like, but I hope to be in a position that allows me to spend more time them relatively soon. I’m lucky in that I work about 45 hours a week right now (some developers work much, much more) which gives me around 123 hours to spend elsewhere. Not bad relative to some programmers.
See lessWork Work for a programmer is their bread and butter. It’s usually where we get to program the most. In my case, I program, review/monitor analytics, look for new areas to collect data on, and implement all of the above each day. I also take breaks to keep my sanity and drink copious amounts of coffRead more
Work
Work for a programmer is their bread and butter. It’s usually where we get to program the most. In my case, I program, review/monitor analytics, look for new areas to collect data on, and implement all of the above each day. I also take breaks to keep my sanity and drink copious amounts of coffee (a lot of decaf, though, I like the taste). I tried to write a chronological hour-by-hour timeline, but failed since my days can vary wildly.
The work environment for a developer can vary from terrible to downright entertaining. Most companies know that a happy, comfortable programmer is an efficient one. The ones that don’t know this typically can’t keep programmers on board for very long.
See lessMonday to Friday: I work around 18 hours per day and I don’t even notice they were so many hours. I recover my dignity this way. Friday night to Sunday: I hit vodka like there’s no tomorrow, probably do some crazy things in some club. I loose my dignity somewhere I don’t recall. Repeat. Corollary: DRead more
Monday to Friday: I work around 18 hours per day and I don’t even notice they were so many hours. I recover my dignity this way.
Friday night to Sunday: I hit vodka like there’s no tomorrow, probably do some crazy things in some club. I loose my dignity somewhere I don’t recall.
Repeat.
Corollary: Dignity is a renewable resource.
See lessWhat a Programmer’s Life Is Really Like (From a Programmer’s POV) 1. Mornings: Debugging Your Own Life You wake up, usually later than you planned.You tell yourself: “Today I’ll be productive.”Then you grab your laptop before you even brush your teeth to check Slack, GitHub, or an error message thatRead more
What a Programmer’s Life Is Really Like (From a Programmer’s POV)
1. Mornings: Debugging Your Own Life
You wake up, usually later than you planned.
You tell yourself: “Today I’ll be productive.”
Then you grab your laptop before you even brush your teeth to check Slack, GitHub, or an error message that kept you awake last night.
Coffee = the first dependency your system loads.
See less2. Work Environment: The Good, the Bad & the Buggy If you work remotely Your office is your bed, your sofa, or a table somewhere. Zoom call at 10? You’re wearing a decent shirt but pyjama pants. You fix bugs while listening to music or YouTube tutorials. If you work in an office There’s a “SenioRead more
2. Work Environment: The Good, the Bad & the Buggy
If you work remotely
Your office is your bed, your sofa, or a table somewhere.
Zoom call at 10? You’re wearing a decent shirt but pyjama pants.
You fix bugs while listening to music or YouTube tutorials.
If you work in an office
There’s a “Senior Developer” who knows everything.
There’s a “Junior Developer” who breaks everything.
There’s a PM who asks: “Can we do that by tomorrow?”
…for a feature that needs 3 weeks.
Common in both cases
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See less10% writing code
30% fixing code you wrote last week
60% Googling, ChatGPT-ing, StackOverflow-ing
Deploying on Friday is forbidden. Always.
3. Personal Life: A Love–Hate Relationship Sleep You sleep like Node.js: event-loop based.Sometimes 4 hours. Sometimes 12. No pattern. Food You either: Forget to eat the whole dayor Eat something fast so you can go back to coding Hobbies You say you’ll go to the gym.Instead, you install a new librarRead more
3. Personal Life: A Love–Hate Relationship
Sleep
You sleep like Node.js: event-loop based.
Sometimes 4 hours. Sometimes 12. No pattern.
Food
You either:
Forget to eat the whole day
or
Eat something fast so you can go back to coding
Hobbies
You say you’ll go to the gym.
See lessInstead, you install a new library you don’t really need.
4. Family Life Your family thinks you can: Hack Facebook Fix a broken TV Unblock their WiFi Recover deleted photos Create an app in 24 hours Make money “just by clicking things” They never understand why “the website isn’t working if you only changed one line.” You love them, but they cannot fathomRead more
4. Family Life
Your family thinks you can:
Hack Facebook
Fix a broken TV
Unblock their WiFi
Recover deleted photos
Create an app in 24 hours
Make money “just by clicking things”
They never understand why “the website isn’t working if you only changed one line.”
You love them, but they cannot fathom why you stare at a screen all day and still look tired. 🙂 this is a own Life of #AlainWebcxreator
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