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Music for Programming
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#222This is the only music for programming we need:
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically my ADHD means that if I like the music I am listening to I will stop focusing on what I am doing and instead focus intently on the music, if I hate the music I am listening to I will stop focusing on what I am doing to turn off the music and then be pissed off at whatever connotations are raised in my head regarding the music, finally if I find the music bland and boring I will do ok but sooner or later I w…
I was talking to a (non-programmer) coworker who has ADHD recently, and she was saying that in order to concentrate she has to have music playing. I asked if that included while doing something that actually requires thinking and focusing like writing an essay and she confirmed that to be the case. She said she'll be singing along to rap music while writing. I thought that was wild cause I'm so the opposite. Music I…
I have ADHD and I have to listen to music to focus as well. I focus less without music. Even when I'm half singing along in my head somehow that makes me stay focused, so I don't get bored and drift off.
Interestingly enough I'm bad at multi tasking. I'm bad at single tasking too. But doing two things at once normally means I'll get neither of those things done. Music is an exception for me.
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#224I just listen to Mozart sonatas. But very nice website. Love the transition effects.
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#225I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
I used to really enjoy floppotron-style stepper motor music while in the coding zone. As a musician I sometimes get distracted by voices of different instruments, so the stepper motors give a nice homogeneous tone.
Unfortunately, I can rarely listen to anything with both ears anymore (always listening for either phone calls at work all day or child cries at home at night). I just play whatever through one headphone but the opportunities for interruption make it a lot more difficult to get in the zone.
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#226Am I an outlier in the fact that I'll listen to any type of music when programming, not just ambient(boring) stuff? Maybe it takes a mental adjustment, but it seems like my brain tunes it out as needed. It's certainly easier to tune out than co-workers talking.
I also have no issues listening to music with vocals while programming. I even know people who listen to podcasts, though that is way too far for me.
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#227I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
For coding background music I can do instrumental music or I can do vocal music that I know very well, to the point where I don't actually have to process the words. But I can't do vocal music that I don't know well, because then my brain tries to process the words.
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#228No affiliation, but something I found on HN years ago was brain.fm: https://www.brain.fm/ I've used it as a source of instrumental, good enough music. I'm not sure if the other "sciency" stuff actually worked. I didn't use it for a while now, partially due to a lack of macos native app.
Have been using this for about 3 years almost daily for reading, coding, and meditating sound if I'm in a noisy place.
I've found that compared to regular lo-fi playlists on Spotify my coding blocks have increased from 30 minutes to 50-60 minutes. Not sure what it does in terms of actual "productivity", but I can definitely spend more time working with it.
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#229I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
I've found that novelty, (new-to-me at least) to be much more distracting than the presence of lyrics, whether that be a new artist or a new song order. As my unit of listening is usually an album, I'll briefly notice album transitions, and shuffle on an album will be jarring, but the 2nd or 3rd time I've heard an album it's successfully backgrounded for the duration of the album.
Seconded. When Spotify finishes an album it follows it with "album radio" which is an auto-generated playlist based on the album - that transition is jarring for me if I'm using it as background music for work, because suddenly my brain is "ooh! something new! let's pay attention!"
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#230I've always described myself as a person with zero ability to multitask. Always have been, always will be. Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc. Back on topic, I absolutely cannot listen to music with words when I code. I'll intermittently type lyrics instead of what I was intending to do. Anyone else cursed wi…
We’re the same person. I have kids, and let me tell you: the most stressful thing about kids isn’t them constantly trying to impale themselves on something; it’s the fact that they all try to talk to you at the same time.
My kids are 4 and 1. I really look forward to when I can explain this to them and they might have a chance of understanding.
(On the other hand, they might just choose to ignore This Thing About Daddy and that will make it even worse.)