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Of course some tasks are bored and we don't want to do so we loose focus that doesn't mean mental ability.
I've been thrown to the wolves many times before, having to absorb and trace huge commercial codebases and be productive the same week on making updates and answering questions. Over abstraction is a real thing - real smart developers seem to pride themselves on how much juice they can squeeze out of dependency injection frameworks such as Structure Map and leverage the syntactic sugar of these tools until the soluti…
Reminds me of "The grug brained developer" :)
I've experienced this periodically since my early 20's - generally in hindsight I realise it was: real life getting in the way, burnout, lack of interest (I was interested in the idea, but on some fundamental level - not the activity) - also occasionally just a feeling of Groundhog Day (ie. Some code tasks can just feel a little too familiar - even if novel, and that saps my joy) Either way, at the time it was quite…
Thank you. Good advice about hacking on some personal projects/experiments. I'm worried that wont rebuild my confidence and abilities fast enough though. I want to make progress on this task today, not next week. Other developers seem to be succeeding, and I'm worried about how I'll look if it takes me weeks do to what others are doing in hours. (This isn't meant to dismiss your advice, to but to give feedback and so…
Good habits and lifestyle changes take time.
The only other option that has worked for me would be drugs like Adderall.
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I’ve had a very successful similar experience with regard to excercise.
Hmm. Do you think we will ever get a pill to replace exercise?
My bet is Vitamin D deficiency - anything below 30 ng/dL is borderline 80 to 100 is best for longevity and cognition.
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Recent studies suggest that counter to popular belief our metabolism doesn't change from age 20 to age 60. There are individual factors that can certainly account for your change of energy and I would certainly look for culprits. I recently did a big change in myself - adjusted sleep, took specific supplements which I was suspect was deficient in and have found my energy to be much fuller. Do not ignore what your bod…
My ex worked on a study that involved testing people's short-term memory. She mentioned a clear and abrupt change around the age of 45, though that wasn't what they studied and of course was not included in the study results. This issue is highly politically charged.
https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/index.html
That said, I am also currently in a hole, can just not look at code. Make yoga, eat healthy, sleep enough, let the sun shine on your head.
Maybe Code Browser helps, it can link to positions in the document. So you can write down the precise call stack. https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/index.html That said, I am also currently in a hole, can just not look at code. Make yoga, eat healthy, sleep enough, let the sun shine on your head.