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Re: Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

#71
I'm not coding because I'm reading a webcomic about why other people aren't coding.

Feature request: when someone goes to "https://whyarentyoucoding.com/", can you cleanly redirect them to "whyarentyoucoding.com/NAMEOFCURRENTCOMIC"? It makes it easier to share the latest comic since sharing whyarentyoucoding.com results in a stale link after a few days.

Re: Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

#72
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I guess I have coder's block... the thought of a big project makes me more reluctant to start.

I was in one of these for a few months. Strangely enough, changing all my editors color schemes from darkmode to whitemode helped me to overcome it. Over time I went back to darkmode for the most part. Maybe it is similar to working from a different place? (e.g. coding sitting in park instead of the same old office day-in day-out)

I definitely can second this, changing something about my tools can jump-start stuff.

Another example is "productivity apps". I was using one for ~1 year and it was going great until the last few months. I simply changed to a different one and now I'm using it much more than I was. I think just changing the stuff you use all the time is something that is under-appreciated

Re: Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

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post #71

I'm not coding because I'm reading a webcomic about why other people aren't coding. Feature request: when someone goes to " https://whyarentyoucoding.com/ ", can you cleanly redirect them to "whyarentyoucoding.com/NAMEOFCURRENTCOMIC"? It makes it easier to share the latest comic since sharing whyarentyoucoding.com results in a stale link after a few days.

For the wrong reasons, I wanted to see "Too many redirects" in there.

Re: Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

#77

The last time I was paid to be a developer by a company, the most prominent reasons I was not writing code were: 1. I am in the 5th meeting to discuss the details of a 10-page document about a feature that would take 100LOC to write if we weren't using Spring. 2. I am waiting for a dependency manager that is incapable of resuming downloads to download my dependencies from the private repository of dependencies which…

> it is my responsibility to ensure that the alerting is actually working

> delegating tasks is some fake thing to make others feel good

Somebody has to ultimately be responsible though right? If you're a team lead, isn't it still your responsibility to make sure the work your team has done is actually working before you tell your manager that it is?

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