[HN Gopher] "When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl de... ___________________________________________________________________ "When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours." Author : danso Score : 73 points Date : 2021-03-18 17:38 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | UncleOxidant wrote: | I guess I'm not sure what's left to do for a couple of hours | every day on curl after 23 years (given that it fits into the | unix philosophy of do one thing, but do it well)? Are there that | many new features? Lots of bugs to fix? (I wouldn't guess so) | Seems like it would only need a couple of hours of | maintenance/month by now given the functionality. | zerocrates wrote: | I don't know the details of curl's development, but at least | some of it must be just keeping pace with the shifting | infrastructure of the internet: HTTP/2/3/QUIC/whatever, changes | in TLS and the underlying libraries, that kind of thing. | touisteur wrote: | There's always a new version of HTTP around the corner... | draw_down wrote: | I use curl a lot so I'm glad it works for him. Having a part-time | unpaid moonlighting gig doesn't sound like it would work for me | personally. | kissgyorgy wrote: | This should not encourage anyone to seriously overturn their | work-life balance. | reedf1 wrote: | I find I can enter a flow state with work more easily when I feel | like the world is asleep. | [deleted] | grioghar wrote: | I wonder what the science is behind this. | | If people are up, I can't lock in; there's a constant | distraction somewhere in my mind. | | If I'm the only person awake in the house, I seem to hit flow | state with ease. | plumsempy wrote: | it has become such a preference for me: silence, dimmed lights, | some synthwave music, surrounded by all my machines and a lot | of fun. | matheusmoreira wrote: | Same here. It's so relaxing when everyone else is sleeping. All | other responsibilities fade away. | zikzak wrote: | This is exactly how I feel. That 1.5 - 2 hours each night | when I know no one wants or needs me to do anything is | invaluable for me mental health. I know I should get more | sleep but I need that time to not resent the fact that I get | so little time for "me". I get to work at 4:30am (time zone | thing) and do a lot of the primary child care and chores. | It's often 8:30pm before I'm done and even then the dogs | water bugging me to go out, etc. My wife needs sleep so she | heads up early and I just putter or stretch, sometimes I | write a little code, or watch part of a show. Feels good. | rektide wrote: | Philip K Dick wrote about being out of the heat of God's light, | not feeling the scorching heat of the palm tree garden upon us. | I believe it was from one of the VALIS novels but I haven't | gone back to dig it up, and could be wrong. | | Personally, I find I sometimes have trouble accepting good | enough solutions. I want more structure, a better defined | start. At night I can drop into a productive flow state with | much less resistance. The hours run short; let's seize what we | can from the waking hours. As well that "inspiration," I think | there is probably a physiological barrier lowering that happens | as we go into the night. As we recede from the gods' light, as | it were. | bradstewart wrote: | So much this. Specifically (for me), it's the simple | understanding that I will not be disturbed for as long as I | care to focus, so it's worth the "effort" to get in the zone. | Which of course means it only takes 30 seconds to get there. | | But the screwed up sleep cycles from years and years of this | are starting to take their toll, so I've been trying everything | I can to replicate that peace of mind during daylight hours. No | silver bullet yet. | Tade0 wrote: | I've found that effective noise-cancelling headphones(e.g. | Sony WH1000XM4) help somewhat. | ashwoods wrote: | For a few months my wife had a baking job that required her | getting up at 4. I'd get up with her and start to work after | breakfast. I'd have the days work before 9:00 standup. More | time for sport and cooking. Think it was a healthier | lifestyle in total. Social life was impossible though, we | couldn't manage to stay awake long enough to meet up with | friends. And impossible to maintain once she switched to | another shift. | the_cat_kittles wrote: | cURL and VLC, not to mention linux etc... really call into | question for me the idea that market forces are necessary or even | beneficial to good software. curious to hear what i may be | missing by making this inference though. | r0s wrote: | Maybe the two are related. IT work makes demands of your mind | but not your body, so we're all up at night, not tired from a | days work. | | I'd imagine manual laborers sleep much more soundly, and are | less likely to code in their down time. (but maybe!) | sparrish wrote: | With 7 kids and working from home, my most productive work hours | are after everybody goes to bed. | | Why waste those precious 'awake' hours on code when I can be | enjoying my family? | hnrodey wrote: | I've had a few personal projects where I've spent several hours | in the evening working to get it off the ground. What I've found | is that my mind is so activated/stimulated that I then struggle | to even fall asleep as the code is still dancing in my head. It's | a real trade-off I have to make - stay up late to begin with to | code on something and then another 45-60 mins to even fall | asleep. | ed_elliott_asc wrote: | Get up an hour before everyone else and work in the morning | lazyasciiart wrote: | Then the trade-off is getting up an hour before I want to | start work so that my mind can _start_ moving. | globular-toast wrote: | A few times I've had it affect my dreams. I was working on a | toy OS a couple of years back. Similar to the OP I would work | on it for a couple of hours every night after my girlfriend | went home. One time after I was working on virtual memory I had | a dream where I was in memory and there pointers and stuff. It | was really weird. | UncleOxidant wrote: | I've definitely had it effect my dreams. But I've also found | solutions to bugs by sleeping. | ktpsns wrote: | I also enjoy this special time in the night. It's just 11pm in | central europe. But I also know my child goes up tomorrow morning | at 7am the latest, and if I keep working until 3 or 4am (which I | regularly do), I will have a very bad next day hangover. It's the | constant problem with too little time... | after_care wrote: | Are you concerned about the health or cognitive complications | associated with sleep deprivation? | beforeolives wrote: | Now I just wish that I had a project that I could do this for. Or | that I was the kind of person who can keep up this type of work | for so many years. | Avalaxy wrote: | How about any hobby projects from Kaggle, advent of code or | something like that? I find those things very refreshing after | my mundane day-job. | jxramos wrote: | yah if you have the drive I think there's lists of projects | open and welcoming to beginners etc. I don't know of any good | curated lists but a quick search led to.. | | * https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/08/03/getting-started- | with-c... * https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ * | https://opensource.guide/how-to-contribute/ * | https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners | albntomat0 wrote: | I get up an hour or so early on most days to work on a personal | project before my normal dev job. | | I find it's really helped my mental health, especially when work | can be a bit frustrating (in entirely normal ways) | bhaak wrote: | Working 2 hours a day when nobody is bothering you and you have | peace of mind to concentrate is tremendously valuable. | | Additionally doing that for 23 years, you can get done a lot of | work. | tartoran wrote: | Especially when those 2 hours are enough to get the day | workload done:) | annoyingnoob wrote: | I used to do this for my day job. Some of that late night code | was pretty bad upon review the next day. | globular-toast wrote: | I did most of my computer science studies at night when the whole | world was asleep. I have quite fond memories of finally finishing | a piece of work as the sun was coming up and settling down to | sleep at 6am. It was terribly unhealthy, but I learnt so much. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-18 23:00 UTC)