This is a first for me. I’ve got some personal projects I want to work on, and I really enjoy programming. Normally first thing in the morning I’ll spend an hour waking up, drinking coffee, and writing some code.
I’m a professional software developer, and software development is a passion and hobby. But I felt like I needed a bit of a reset so I’ve made an effort to not write any code at all during the Christmas/New Years holidays (about 3 weeks).
Honestly I don’t feel like I’ve missed out, but I’m definitely looking forward to getting back into it and I think I’ll benefit from it. Ill be back at it again next week.
I know 3 weeks isn’t a huge amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Have you found yourself taking a complete break from coding? How did you find things when you had to start up again? Felt like it benefitted you or ended up losing the trail a bit?
I might try walking away from the screen for the whole weekends as my new year resolution (for different reasons). My eyesight is starting to fail and I think a 2 day break from the screen every week could help.
I only wrote code for !advent_of_code@programming.dev which is so different to my usual tasks that it feels like a break.
Not a bad idea really. Though if there is a problem I can’t solve within the hour, I tend to dwell on it and work through it in my head until I can get back to it. Thought just going cold turkey (so to speak) for the holidays might be better this time around.
I’m so tired of coding for work, even though I always liked the thrill of just exploring where a project would take me. I’ve been neglecting my personal projects and, over time, stopped feeling bad about it. I have plenty of opportunities at work to learn about new things, it’s okay if I do something unrelated in my free time.
LLMs gave me some relief with work and I’m now able to at least think about programming other things for fun, but haven’t done any actual project yet.
If I feel like I am stuck while doing something either discussing it with someone else or doing entirely something else for a while (couple weeks) helps me get out of that local optima.
It slowly started happening in the last few years. And then I got a burn-out. I haven’t really written code in months now. I don’t think it’d really stress me out, but honestly I just don’t really feel like it most of the time. I try to spend most of my time away from a screen
