My team mate trying to focus!

My dev area of focus : that hot girl in QA

I need to focus on work..........
ENGAGE TUNNEL VISION

Honey, I love you, but plz I'm trying to focus

Too much noise in my workplace, can't focus on my code,
bought 300 bucks noise cancelling headphones,
best money i've spent

The trick is to meditate instead of masturbate

Sometimes when I code, I plug in my earphones and listen to music, focused, in zone.

* I let everyone think that.
** I actually don't listen to anything.
*** Keeps the buggers away!

Need to work on my focus. I feel like it's one of my greatest weakne ... hey look, a DevRant notification.

Me: So, I need stay focus on my open source projects to get some GitHub stars...

Five minutes later ...

Me: oh look new movies on Netflix !

Daaaamn !!!

What I do when I sit down to work:
Get a cup of coffee or tea,
Sit down open up some music; rock if I'm feeling okay or slow jazz if I'm feeling anxious,
Open my text editor (Atom, I love it so much),
Open git desktop,
Look at what was my last commit,
Remember where I left off,
Look blankly at code for a few minutes,
Then I pull up phone and start writing stupid shit like this on devrant.

Your fucking single page whatever the fuck app doesn't need React! Stop overcomplicating everything and getting distracted by shinny new frameworks, just focus on solving the problem!

My morning motivation on the wall next to my desk.... Have an ever growing collection of Oatmeal art now....

!rant
Love that little fidget cube. Keeps me away from shaking my legs and helps me to focus.

Broke Up with my girl.
Can't focus on Project.
Plz help, tell me how you guys recover from this.

Ever since I started working at a company that has a real focus on software I have less to rant about....😒

Giving up on music to focus on programming.

Just bought a sound muffler recommended for a firing range, so I can focus while I work.

I got some stickers from the German party 'Die Piraten'. They support data privacy and focus on Internet related things.

The stickers are just awesome.

After 8 hours of focusing on two monitors at work, I go home so I can focus on my own two monitors.

uuuuugh, bllllaaa, grrrrr....<ding>...and,focus.

Man I really hate it when people think that coding doesn't take any concentration and can just interrupt you while you're thinking about how to solve problems

So the other day I was working on how to solve a problem with filtering data with JS, and I had to urgently update one of our pages on our website. I had to update that page according to the content of a Word file, which I didn't check how long it was.

About 15 minutes later everything was ready and published, so I set myself back to my problem.

I get an email from her, "you mixed up things" and she showed up in my office. "There are four pages in this word doc and you copied wrong parts", I was like "ok, I'll fix it". Fixed it two minutes later, went back to code.

Received another email, with another subject, again with another problem. Start getting pissed off for being interrupted for nonsense. Fixed it instantly and put my manager in the email loop so she is aware my other colleague pisses me off.

And again, another direct email "can you fix this?!". I started ignoring her requests because I need some work to be done, and I already lost 2 hours. Got again interrupted by her personal visit to point me which things are wrong, repeating everything twice as I am stupid to her. Man I can't code in peace. I fixed her shit, exactly as she wants and decided to pay my manager a visit to tell her I'm really pissed about being interrupted all the time.

Five minutes before the end of the day, she comes panicking in the office about ANOTHER WORTHLESS issue. Told her it's nothing and went away.

Day is over, thought it was over - a whole afternoon spent correcting her fucking page that gets 10 visits a year.

On the next morning, "there is something wrong with your form, can you check it?!!?" with an attached screenshot. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU STOP ANNOYING ME WITH YOUR FUCKING SHIT CANT WORK ANYMORE. PUT YOUR FUCKING PAGE RIGHT UP YOUR ASS AND FIX IT YOURSELF.

She doesn't have any access to the back end.

Guess I'll have to fix it then...

My dev area of focus: Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Why: because I am the CEO 🤓

Whoever invented glossy screens for laptops should be shot! I can't get in the zone for coding while staring into a freaking mirror!!

"A friend once insisted to me that the plural of 'moron' is 'focus group.'" - Ethan Marcotte

Area of focus: my desk
Why: because that's where my laptop sits

Last exam: passed

Fuk yea finally I can focus on programming

!rant
Since I joined DevRant my productivity went down...

Well... Im not sure if I should be happy or sad about it.

That's how computers look in our school (with main focus on science)...

"Windows XP"
"No internet"

Focus: C#
Why: Because Unity makes me use C#

I have seen people using 800$ smartphones' cameras without using the focus...

Firefox focus ;) privacy anonymity and no ads from default.

Do anyone else have major focus issues? When I'm enjoying something, I can focus completely for a long time. But when I'm miserable, 15 minutes seems to be the maximum I can focus.

It's really hard when you have long passages to read for class and are unable to focus long enough to actually absorb the material.

I really want to try ADHD medicine, but I don't want to rely on it to focus.

remember you. When you feel pissed; focus on something that fulfills you; fulfills your soul; instead of focusing on shit you cannot change or have no control over

Don't forget to drink lots of water to keep the focus 👌🏿 have a good day! :)

I can't f***ing focus :'(

I love to work in pubs/bars, this special kind of noisy environment works so well for me. I even go "into the zone".

Lets talk about this. Is anyone else the same? Just curious.

These are my 6 reasons:

0) Beer. 🍺
1) None of the activity in a bar actually interests to me, if you know what I mean. In my house, every single noise/movement will get my attention.
2) After some time all the noise blends into a kind of "homogeneous hearing blurb". Like a mantra. Maybe there are even white/pink/brown noise benefits (guess).
3) I go to places where I enjoy the music and atmosphere.
4) I like bars and pubs anyways. I feel good in these places.
5) Beer. 🍺

My headphones just died because the battery is empty!
Not a good start!
I forgot the cable at home!

Bye bye peace, productivity, and focus

When you turn up to work and realise you forgot your headphones so you gotta try and concentrate while overhearing every conversation in the office.

I think I need to focus more on work than to spend time here.

Working from home routine (Lockdown edition):
1. Wakeup at 8am
2. Meeting at 8:30am
3. Next 3 hours just focus on coding
4. Push code to source control
5. Focus on myself

Time to shine!
Laptop [Check]
Coding Playlist [Check]
Motivation [Check]
Focus...

Oh look an Interesting YouTube Video that is probably just clickbait... *click*

Started coding 2 hours later...

Me on drugs at work: *focus as fck*
Me at work: shit, what the hell people around me talking about

Damn i love herb

The day your boss tells you tests are some kind of self-satisfaction for developers and asks you to focus, to not introduce bugs.

When you've been coding for what seems like an hour and when you finally look up it's dark outside 😛

“Stop starting, start finishing”

My place be like

“Never stop starting”

Music is annoying.
Listening to music sometimes helps you focus, and other times distracts you because you're too busy "singing".

Spent fifteen minutes finding the right playlist to listen to while coding

5 minute later, I pause the music trying to focus

So my boss just announced that our department's focus should switch from C# and AngularJS to Sharepoint and MS Power Apps.

Its so hot in the office, makes it hard to dev and focus 😅

Issues I didn't know I would face when trying to study from my parents' place: They're not talking to me and disturbing me, it's the fucking cat snoring so loudly that is distracting me 😅

!Rant

How do you deal with open space offices?

I find it quite difficult to focus, the constant chatting, the constant questions, phone ringing, surprise meeting, more question, arrays of interruptions and questions again. I believe I would be a lot more productive if left alone in the total, undiscontinued silence.

Have you found your escape, your zen, your inner focus? Please share, I need some ideas

My dev area of focus? Machine Learning! Because it's fascinating to teach a computer to learn from experience :)

I have no idea what I'm doing and tomorrow is the deadline of my task.

Writing coroutines for io_uring. Submissions aren't working (they go through but the operation never seems to complete). Just fixed a few segfaults because of error cases not destroying coroutine handles correctly. Been on this for two days, finding more and more things I need to do that unrelated to the task at hand. Don't have issue tracking set up yet because haven't had time. Mountain of things that need to get working just for a demo is only growing. Layered maps of data structures and code flow are in my head as I'm trying to mentally debug some of this. I'm focused, completely dead to the outside world.

Then I feel a small scratch on my cheek. Three hours of mental mapping and a deep stack of thought, vanishes into thin air in a single moment.

The trade-off is worth it though.

I think this a perfect anecdote of where tech is going nowadays:

I moved my bowels on one of those high-tech Japanese toilets: it allowed you to control the seat temperature, cleaned your butt with spray (with an additional "ladies" mode), had several modes of flushing (1, 2, and "eco"), automatically lifted and closed the lid, played some music for you, had a remote controller for you to flush your shit at a distance.

But, guess what, IT DIDN'T FLUSH SHIT. It pathetically trying to flush my shit with 1000 different kinds of puny jets and draining modes but my heap of shit always bounced back because its flush was so weak that it couldn't push it.

I don't care if the seat warmer went out of control and burned my ass or if the butt cleaning jet didn't reach my anus,
JUST DO WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO AND FLUSH MY SHIT.

After almost 6 years of emotionless journey with a single focus towards my career, I have a crush on somebody.

Now I'm confused AF 😕

My gf left me, it's been a month.

I still can't focus on anything. Suffering panics and anxiety.

Couldn't code for a month. Still can't.

depression is caused when you focus on the wrong things

focos on the right thing. The thing that makes your spirit fly instead of drown.

remember this.

I hate when I do CTRL + w in Firefox thinking that the focus is on VIM.

when your company actively spreads that we are a company without managers, but the service manager is on my ass every other day lately about something. I love my job, but the guy recently started to tick me off and contacts me at random times and brings me out of my focus. Any ideas?

I was not able to write a word today. Hate it when this happens.

Zero focus.

In job description :
.....
- You should have a good communication skills .
....

At the company:
JUST FOCUS ON WRITING CODE , No useless conversation

I'm looking for ways to focus on coding. So, yesterday i deactivated my facebook and it seems life is more productive now.

Me,: we devs need silence to be able to focus properly, and to develop good quality software.

Marketing guy: we need to hang a frame on the wall.

Other marketing guy: yeah, let's grab the drill and make several holes, fuck those devs.

Me sitting down to code for the first time in months after having an extended focus on design

Damn it gitpush focus when type the damn password!! I locked my self out of my server again 😭

Time to visit the portal and login 😒

Money will follow, focus on your skills. - my tech-lead

I decided to start learning go yesterday.
I had a Fun little automation task at hand and got to work...

The next time I checked the clock it was monday 02:40 AM

Getting up at 06:10 was hard...

Area of focus : get rid of noisy office mates

Why : so that I can focus on my work

I lose all focus when I hear my coworker spell out websites on the phone... "H-T-T-P, BACKSLASH BACKSLASH..."

Headphones, a quiet room, a comfortable chair, something to drink (coffee, red bull, water, tea) and something that is interesting enough to totally focus on.

1. Coding
2. Answering everything said on Slack

Pick One.

Heard this from my professor today-
" Focus on product not on technology"....don't know how true this is.

that feeling when you start looking at code after dinner, correct a bug or two, start implementing new features, tweak the code a little bit, you are really focus in your coding... then look out the window and realize the sun is about to come up. it's great 🤓

My own damn thoughts and inability to focus

Focus? What focus? Its easier for me to define what ISN'T my focus. I don't do web UI/UX. Pretty much anything else is fair game.

When you touchbase on all multiple languages but don't know any of them properly.

Focus on one. Focus on one. **talks to self**

It really is a great feeling to be able to put your headphones in and lose yourself in the code for a few hours without interruptions (except for devRant of course).

Coding at night with noises that bring about focus is the best. I use noisli.com
Fellow devs, check it out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1. A login window or form appears
2. Enter username
3. Enter p-
4. Another application STEALS THE FUCKING FOCUS
5. Enter half of the (or the whole) password in the app that stealed the focus and press Enter by mere inertia

Or this variant:

4. The username field gets autofocused
5. Enter the password in the username field, out in the clear for everyone to see

DON'T YOU STEAL ME FOCKING FOCUS MATE

My area of focus has and always will be making sure my code is clean and to the point.

Tough Choices..
Too many of them 😂

Area of focus : Robotics
Why? : "why not?"

Low motivation and low focus

Earphones + music. The best way to cut off from the outside world and focus on development.

Forgot to drink water? Focus loss.
Forgot to write microtasks? Focus loss.
Didn't wear trousers when it's cold? Focus loss.
Forgot to meditate? Focus loss.
Forgot to think about how I feel? Focus loss.
Forgot to eat? Focus loss.
Didn't exercise? Focus loss.
Assumed that little pain in my ribs is cancer? Focus loss.
Got annoyed by something my boss said? Focus loss.
Did I forget to listen to instrumental music instead of stand up comedy? Focus loss.
Can't find instrumental music that I like and didn't listen too many times? Focus loss.
Did I sleep too little? Focus loss.

Everything is a pitfall. I am a goddamn house of cards.

If there is anything I hate in life more than XCode is not organizing work!

A feature done few months ago on mobile, tested, passed QA and now it is not working! Why? Because API got screwed!! Why? Because someone is changing the core of the system without notifying anyone!!

Both API and that feature were not touched in months and suddenly stopped working and guess who is blamed, damn right me and the API dev when non of us even made a change -.-

Lately I feel like I'm mentally working at 50% of my capacity. I'm spending the time, but I feel a major loss in focus and motivation.

This is just a rant, but I think some of you might have faced this at some point. Did anything help you lately?

my boss plays music at full volume all day long.
not only i can't focus on my work, but also i don't enjoy his music

when you have one of those days where your mind constantly blanks out and your ability to focus is null...

I was trying to improve the UX of my design by not forgetting the accessibility and by making the contrast as obvious as possible without sacrificing the look. I took my glasses off. I never thought I was doing this for me all this time.

Yoga really works for concentration and focus !
Debugging is faster now :)

Which sport u do ?

I find Nordic/Viking music very calming and I'm able to focus better. Basically, I'm more productive when I'm listening to such music.

Coding is basically staring at the screen for several hours :p

Fucking Ballmer peak and blowing by it 9 times out of 10. But that every once in a while when you hit it. Oh it’s real. So real. Focus and problem solving rolled into one.

That moment when your rant has gone so viral that you have to force close devRant app. Coz your phone is buzzing every half an hour....

Me: I should be doing this SOAP service thats is due thursday.

Mind: nah let's answer stackoverflow questions.

I swear to god, if I read another medium post on how you managed to be focused and productive I will fucking... well... roll my eyes, make a facepalm and rant about it on devRant!

Who gives a shit if I'm unproductive and unfocused?!

Well, look at me now, I'm fucking productive while I write about you, you fucking peace off shit! And guess what? I'm not even using any of your 40 todo apps or time trackers. There is no pomodoro timer next to me or framed quotes from Steve Jobs hanging on the wall. Oh, I must be a fucking genius!

But what if YOU became unproductive?
What will happen when YOU start to procrastinate?

Do you really think the world would care?

Oh, but you are not really a writer are you? you're a developer building your app!?
Well fuck, I guess you're going to change the world than?
It's your big project. Your life's work, your legacy.

Let me remind you...

All apps will be abandoned!
All blog post will be forgotten!
Productive people will die!
Focused people will die!
Enthusiastic bloggers writing about productivity will die!
All CEOs and CTOs will die!
All developers will die!
Steve Jobs is dead!
In x years, you and I will also be dead!

Whatever you do, it's not really that important!
It's really not.

You're not going to change the world.
The world doesn't need another app.
The world doesn't need your advice on how to be productive.
You are not special.

Deal with it!

Headphones on, in the zone, deep into some heavyweight logic, blissfully unaware of the office surroundings.

Get tapped on shoulder. "hey, I've finished that easy task a deformed amoeba could have done. Want to see?"

NO!

Manually updated a user who was attending a focus group's password by resetting it to a known hash...

Forgot the "WHERE user_id" part of the SQL.

My area of focus is switching between so many areas of focus without actually having the time to do so. Why is a day only 24 hours long :(

Does anyone else have really bad focus issues? when I'm supposed to be studying I'll be able to focus for about 10 minutes maximum before I end up on my phone or Getting distracted on YouTube

God damn it ADHD. I can't seem to focus on what I actually want to learn.

When you see your calendar isn't filled with useless huddles and stand-up meets, which have no purpose except distracting and disrupting your flow and focus.

That's how! 😡

Music genre or songs you listen to while coding. Go.

Me? Gangsta rap

Focus stealing - it winds me up more than is probably reasonable.

I'm there, typing away in my text entry UI widget of choice, purposefully entering text to do some thing as expediently as possible and then... oh, well I'm not any more, am I?

No, because some other window has decided that it needs the keyboard focus for usually no reason whatsoever, other than poor programming manners. Sometimes the same app will keep stealing the focus - oi, mate, I was typing over here? Could you not get the current focus and see that I'm busy?

This happens in chrome's dev tools _a lot_ but dev tools needs a rant all of its own.

When coding, what percentage of your time is spent fluently typing your code vs thinking about what you're coding?

Set all my editors to autosave when they loose focus ~

Makes me go nuts when working on other machines :/

Stop TV and fucking focus

After I took some time off from work, I decided to accept the offer for maintenance of two projects. Those are from two old clients, so I think I will not stress too much, since I know what to expect most of the time.

The issue is, sometimes I have a hard time to keep concentration. In the past, I could work for 3h straight, totally focused, would pause for 20min for stretch, and then come back to work. Now I can only focus for 30min or 1h, and after a pause, it's hard to concentrate again.

There is a lot going on in my life right now, and I know the worry is probably distracting me. I'm trying to listen instrumental music, drinking coffee... But that's not enough. Somebody has any tip?

Lead developer about Project X:

“Focus on responsiveness. That will probably take you the rest of the week”

The next day:

“Focus on functionality Y”

MAKE UP THAT MIND FFS?!

Focus control.

Eg. Imagine you have two monitors, you are playing your game on monitor A, and monitor B has a copy of the instructions on it.

Often in games you can't move the mouse outside of the game window / monitor..

But not to worry, that B monitor is a touchscreen, so you touch to scroll it and what happen.. focus changes to that monitor, and your game window minimises..

But you don't want that to happen !

How do you stop that happening by the way ?

My dev area of focus: Desktop tools/applications
Why: Because I hate web development

My eyes can't focus on the text with the pretty avatars next to it now!

Am I the only one who can't focus while listening to music?
I would rather sit in a quiet surrounding and work.

My headphones 🎧 died two days ago and I can't focus on work since then. Why do they have to be so fragile?

MUST STAY FOCUSED !!
(so many cool things to learn makes it a bit difficult :) )

Maybe focus on my health and fitness for once.

When your deep focus music makes you sleepy

when all else fails, i cast infinite focus using my amulet of loudmusic and scroll of redbull

Last night I talked to a friend I hadn't heard from in a while. She visited the city I'm in two years back with her boyfriend. She had a brain injury recently. Her boyfriend and her broke up. She doesn't feel anything towards anyone anymore. She asked me if I knew anyone who had committed suicide. I named all of three of them, and two overdoses which may have been intentional. I will never forget them. She asked a lot of questions about suicide.

The skill of being about to sit still and get stuff done. I can't focus for the life of me.

"Limit your usage to two fonts (three at the absolute most) to help viewers focus on the words, not how many different fonts are saying them. " - Dan Rubin

searching on how to do something on your project. a couple of hours later, you ended up watching on how the universe was born and theories of aliens .. #researchGoneTooFar

Area of focus: Between my earphones
Cause: Plays metal

why do java developers wear glasses?

because their ciliary muscles can't contract to focus light on the retina

I can't believe I've missed out on Firefox Focus for so long. I'm a Chromium guy, but Focus beats rounds on Chrome mobile in terms of speed and browsing experience.

I am so ANXIOUS!! CAN'T WORK AT ALL!! SOMEONE SAVE ME PLEASE!!

When you focus on adding functionality and the UI is barely usable.

Due to ramadhan, I can't focus on work. Am dearly missing my morning and afternoon coffee.

anyone here has experience coding high before? can you even focus. 😂 Just really curious, please share.

So many options in web development. Don't know what to learn next or focus on. Mean stack or Asp .net or JavaEE?

Today, IT director blocked off a part of Friday afternoon on everyone's calendar as "focus time." WTF.

Actually, the office. Because it's a space exclusively for working.

I did home office for quite a while and still do so from time to time but i get distracted and/or lazy too easily to really get something done at home.

In the office, I have to be focused and so I am for 8+ hrs.

Unpopular opinion: 9to5 is great.

Area of focus: R

Why: The charts looks so pretty. Good enough, I'll learn R.

Ok, so I need some clarity from you good folk, please.

My lead developer is also my main mentor, as I am still very much a junior. He carved out most of his career in PHP, but due to his curious/hands-on personality, he has become proficient with Golang, Docker, Javascript, HTML/CSS.

We have had a number of chats about what I am best focusing on, both personally and related to work, and he makes quite a compelling case for the "learn as many things as possible; this is what makes you truly valuable" school of thought. Trouble is, this is in direct contrast to what I was taught by my previously esteemed mentor, Gordon Zhu from watchandcode.com. "Watch and Code is about the core skills that all great developers possess. These skills are incredibly important but sound boring and forgettable. They’re things like reading code, consistency and style, debugging, refactoring, and test-driven development. If I could distill Watch and Code to one skill, it would be the ability to take any codebase and rip it apart. And the most important component of that ability is being able to read code."

As you can see, Gordon always emphasised language neutrality, mastering the fundamentals, and going deep rather than wide. He has a ruthlessly high barrier of entry for learning new skills, which is basically "learn something when you have no other option but to learn it".

His approach served me well for my deep dive into Javascript, my first language. It is still the one I know the best and enjoy using the most, despite having written programs in PHP, Ruby, Golang and C# since then. I have picked up quite a lot about different build pipelines, development environments and general web development as a result of exposure to these other things, so it isn't a waste of time.

But I am starting to go a bit mad. I focus almost exclusively on quite data intensive UI development with Vue.js in my day job, although there is an expectation I will help with porting an app to .NET Core 3 in a few months. .NET is rather huge from what I have seen so far, and I am seriously craving a sense of focus. My intuition says I am happiest on the front end, and that focusing on becoming a skilled Javascript engineer is where I will get the biggest returns in mastery, pay and also LIFE BALANCE/WELLBEING...

Any thoughts, people? I would be interested to hear peoples experiences regarding depth vs breadth when it comes to the real world.

December, the last month of year. I made big plans to finish 2016 with a perfect ending.

Few places to travel, startup, freelancing and many more...

But first I need to pass my exams which are not based on programming. 😕😑 I am just not able to concentrate, my PC looks at me and I look at her. But trying to focus on the study. 😕

Be able to shutdown my hearing completely so that i could focus on my thoughts.

My main development focus is getting paid. Oh and front-end dev stuff.

My area of focus is to focus.

I get distracted way too easily, I often think I would get far more done if I could stay focused for a longer period.

My vacation starts tomorrow and I'm still at work. My brain has stopped working. Can't focus.
Does anyone know a way to force time acceleration?

I feel very terrible. Attending meetings, not able to say anything, I get anxious, my face gets red and heart starts to race. I was never able to get through this situation. This is a big thing, if I set up a meeting to discuss, due to the anxiety I am not able to question anything. I could make a difference that every now and then I ask something basic but due to anxiety I couldn't understand the answer and end up saying yes to thess things although I couldn't understand.
I tried preparing for the meetings but that doesn't work as generally something comes up that I didn't expect and I get so nervous.

spent last 5 desperate hours isolating a problem with activeElement and focus to finally find out that the only thing I was missing was e.preventDefault(); in the caller

Binge watched Silicon Valley and now I can focus on work. and if Gilfoyle and Monica end up together so help me God I'll lose my shit!

Spend your time on devRant of course!
(Now get back to work and try some focus music;)

Listening to music and watching movies helps me to focus. But I never found a way to solve my procrastination problem...

Any other devs with PTSD here? Since the trauma I find it hard to focus on programming. Before the trauma I would code on the job, get home and code personal projects for fun. After the trauma I can barely focus on programming for work.
How do you focus?

Programmer seems like an insufficient job title: translator for high-level languages with focus on user meditation seems more like it.

Want to end a game in unity - need to focus only on one or two projects at the same time

I'm an alcoholic and a programmer. I don't drink when I'm programming so that I can focus. Programming is therefore good for my health.

focus is needed because we are the most distracted generation in history!

!rant - developers figured out flipkart should focus web instead of mobile-only, before the company changed strategy ???

idk why, but why focus so much on internal stuff that never will be public...this is also my favorite quote

one big screen > two screens side-by-side

Only me? Think it’s easier to focus.

In my free time I'm developing a small init system with focus on parallel initialization.

When you have to focus but your boss tells you he has loads of new ideas

!Question

Is it better to try out a lot of languages to learn, or focus directly on one for web development?

Founding an international organisation to teach code in organised focus groups with little or no fees, with various paths

It is 10:54 on a Monday and I have not had a Monster because my drug deal- um doctor, told me off for drinking it (not good for anxiety etc). This shit is tough...

Anyone heard of brain.fm? I'm just curious if it actually, works, and helps to focus and concentrate. Are 200 bucks really woth it?
Thanks in advance :D

I'm really surprised at how when I type in a domain without the protocol it automatically goes to http in this 'privacy' browser (firefox focus)

!rant

Today I got an interview for a cool job: Comissioning engineer with focus on PLC-programming.

So nervous, but so happy at the same time.

Fitting all of my open apps onto three monitors. I think maybe six monitors will hold them all. Ironically, staying focused is also something I struggle with. 🤦‍♂️😅

I see here so much motivation in work you are doing and i am here standing without any inspiration, motivation in learning things, i can't stay focus more than several minutes reading interesting topic. I use to simulate and create different network, doing great stuff (i am or maybe was addict for networking) How you guy/ girls can do it? Some tips would be awesome.

Time for a 00:30 rant that has no structure!
(There is a theme tho)

TI-BASIC optimization (framecount is from TI-84 Silver, with the higher Z80 clock):

"0→S": 3 frames
"DelVar S": 2 frames
```
0
Ans →S
```
1 frame???
(Variable "Ans" holds the last answer given to the normal calc functions. This makes it blazing fast to use [for some reason])

also refreshing the real TI-8x line's LCD at its actual, normal rate is bad and *SOMEHOW* ends in LCD overvolting (makes parts of the LCD blue instead of dark gray) after ~15 frames. The TI-8x line's normal OS thing refreshes the LCD at 30-45FPS depending on their clock speed, the LCD is native 80FPS. Just figured i should point this out. (Yes, TI, you do make hardware, it's just that sometimes you should make it when SANE)

why the fuck did they make a multitasking machine that runs on a Z80 at, like, 7/8 the original Gameboy's speed (the B/W DMG, the original. The CGB had DoubleSpeed mode.)

I'm so excited about something(can't tell you guys yet) but can't talk about it at work. And now I lost all my focus

What's your coding drink?

Personally: Anise or thyme tea or a large Cappucino because you know this brain need some premium fuel to work 😂

I was assigned a task to troubleshoot some buggy code. I am a developer and I don’t know how to get started. Does anyone else experience this kind of anxiety? Where you’re asked to apply your skills and suddenly your brain just shuts down and you feel like you know exactly nothing? I’m older than most coders in my field. Onset of some kind of brain disorder?

My dev area of focus is Stack overflowing. When you develop orient to errors, stack overflow is the best way to progress.

My main focus Is data analysis. Being a physics student I do quite a lot of this using the likes of numpy and matplotlib, or GNU Octave.

Company not giving my salary on time and waiting for it to arrive. Worrying about paying rent and stuff is not doing good for my focus.

How rotten and half bitten is this most valuable Apple? See that they get quite some bashing for their latest Catalina release. And they deserve every portion of it, I think.

Honestly, when I saw our testers going through the different betas, which hardly installed and on which our software kept behaving differently, nevertheless they pushed their Golden Master and released. Didn't seem a good idea.

Currently I had to update to Catalina to check some small broken feature of ours and now the active window keeps on losing focus every few minutes. Have to grab the mouse and click there again to continue working. Really fucking annoying. Hope I can track it down some time.. or trash my iMac.

If you enjoy coding at coffee shops, remember to wear headphones. Not only will it help you focus, it'll also block out John Mayer.

I am preparing for InoI( Indian informatics Olympiad ). Any tip would be helpful. I am gonna use Java. What algorithms and data structures should I focus on ?

Honestly I think you'll run out of new focus questions.

I'd be ok with seeing something different like current trending tags.

Can't focus on work because Ethereum and litecoin are on the rise. Dreaming of driving lambos on the moon 😅

My focus is AI but the only thing most people can respond to that is #Skynet smh 😑😑 like please tell me again about robots taking over

Area of focus?
Whatever the client currently needs.
Because, who has time to specialize when there are bills to pay?

My mind seems to be a mess. I think it's stress related. I have really high anxiety and its making me make stupid mistakes.

For example I used instanceof to check the class in a number of places in code. Originally the class I was checking was a base class. Later on I decided to extend the class but I didn't change my instanceof's so they became always true. This went to prod and only was caught due to severe slowness on a part of the app. Failing PHP 101 seriously. I know how instanceof works just couldn't focus enough to catch my mistake.

Is interview preparation and competitive programming the same thing? If they are different which one should one focus on?
🤔🤔🤔

What do people feel about remote work?
I got into my current work about 8 months and we all were remote working.

In 8 months, we met in person several times and worked together at one place for a week or two.

We have never overcome the feeling of a disconnect when we work remotely. There's less focus and less clarity on things to do.

Is this common? How do people be focused and productive in remote work?

Also how do people communicate effectively?

"It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them." - Steve Jobs

Have you guys used modafinil to stay focus for long hours be it coding or studying. I worked 15 hours none stop

Full stack development building web, desktop and integration solutions. I'd say of all I prefer .Net MVC so try to focus there when possible. It's just fun.

I have hard time focusing at all. I can't even focus 100% when I am driving my bike. My mind tend to go other issues or thoughts when I am doing anything in my life.

Any tip to improve my focus on the current task.

How do you keep a private life? I'm trying to focus on improving myself and here, Facebook(friends...) etc comes by -_- I'm really mad at myself.

Dear DevRant: You should really, really make the textboxes get the focus when they appear, when adding a comment or a rant...

(or is it just me?)

Never ever have to sleep, eat, shit, piss anything like that. Every damn time I do that I loose the focus/idea I had when I started.

I can't seem to focus on my work at all today -_- my server model isn't working and I haven't even started anything else...Any tips on helping me focus?

After a 3 month hiatus to focus on uni work, I'm back! I've missed you pernicious programmers!

I can't get anything done
I know I want or have to do something, but I always waste my time on something completely unrelated.
Afterwards I feel bad, and when I notice what I should've done and what I actually did I get a bit depressed

I just don't have the self-discipline for this shit, and I have no idea how to get it

So been working with the COSMOS framework and I have litteraly spent more time reworking the CLI to be so much more functional... Still haven't implemented a simple echo command but hey... Shit looks pretty that's all that matters... Right... Right?

Does anyone else feel like their brains aren't working, like they cant focus on anything and this has been going on for more than a week now?

I know there are things to do. I have gone through huge pain created github issues for those things but my brain just seems to reject the idea that it can solve those issues. Just feels like playing a game or just killing time would be best!

Needless to say I hate it.

Happens/happening with others?

I cannot focus on exams and my coding because of one person.

how to regain my focus.

help me.

Ability to focus despite colleagues, noises, notifications, etc.

Focus on my love, computer vision :-*
(Yes, with OpenCV)