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

Sometimes wearing headphones isn't enough

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

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!

The trick is to meditate instead of masturbate

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 !!!

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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...

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

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

Giving up on music to focus on programming.

Before you start to work, focus and make sure your workplace has the right equipment 😎

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

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!!

Pomodoro technique, and if nothing works take a break from sitting in front of the computer, and focus on something else, it will get solved easily the next time you touch your pc

I rarely codes in the morning, it's just not the time. I can't focus.

My inspiration comes at night. That's the right moment for me. I sometimes wish that my office hour is at night 😂

How about you?

"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

I enjoy listening to Metalcore while coding. It really helps me calm down and focus/concentrate (the irony of that whilst having someone scream right into my ears 😂). It also helps me chill and regulate my emotions better. Am I weird? What helps you focus and code better?

Network admins deleted the VM my team's git server ran in.

I'm trying to focus my fury into a work appropriate message to their boss.

"fire everyone" is my first response, what would you do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 🍺

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.

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.

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

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

“Stop starting, start finishing”

My place be like

“Never stop starting”

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

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...

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

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

Damn i love herb

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

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

Do you code with the lights on or off?

Personally, I code with them off, it helps me focus on just what I'm working on and nothing else.

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

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.

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.

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

!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

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 😕

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

Area of focus : get rid of noisy office mates

Why : so that I can focus on my work

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?

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

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

I hate those weeks when your brain is like marinated in hormones and you can't focus on work. Fucks sake I'm trying to work goddamnit!!

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 😒

Don't focus too much on learning one specific language. After some coding getting to know a new one is going to be no problem. Focus more on paradigms and maintainable code.
Oh, and don't forget, comments are sometimes way more useful than the actual code.

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

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 🤓

Tough Choices..
Too many of them 😂

1. Coding
2. Answering everything said on Slack

Pick One.

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.

Low motivation and low focus

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

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

I've been using Firefox focus for a while, and for the most part, I like it. But why the hell won't it let me go to government websites (taxes, passports, etc)?

Regular Firefox has no issues with it, why does focus?

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

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

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).

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!

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....

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 -.-

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

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

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

Which sport u do ?

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

What a cool question... um

My super power would be to intuitively read assembly. I could also focus it into laser eyes. A super power can do other things. Tell me why it shouldn't.

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.

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.

Someone did something right - i sometimes get anxiety and this little wonder helps tremendously....

Holding it while it spins....thats all it takes and "poof" - anxiety gone and am 110% able to focus

Finding 15 minutes to quietly focus in an open office environment

Focus of mastering one language, don't jump around to every web langue out there.

Also don't follow the programming language band wagon. Focus and master the basics first HTML, CSS, Jquery. These aren't going anywhere and a SOLID understanding of JavaScript will go WAY further then you think

I can't focus on my task and get motivated because I want to change my position in the company I'm in.

I can't change my position in the company I'm in because I can't focus on my task and get motivated.

I see a trend for new devs to want to focus on JavaScript while dismissing relational databases and backend languages as boring and to rigid. A week into real jobs they want help with data and .net.

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 :(

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!

Don't be specific on any programming languages, focus more on OOP approach, and say you know about OOD/A rather than, you know Java, C# and this and that.

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

Mind: nah let's answer stackoverflow questions.

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?

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 ?

I do mobile apps, started with iOS and now focusing on Android as well. Planning to focus on machine learning in the near future. Any of you have a good recommendation on where to start ?

I think I might need to own my own business and foot the bills. That way I can learn why it's a good idea to only focus on the short term costs and ignore the long term ones

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.

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

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.

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

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

Stop TV and fucking focus

Set all my editors to autosave when they loose focus ~

Makes me go nuts when working on other machines :/

Same as when I go gym..
Deep breaths to get calm,
focus mind on clarity & stillness
then visualize, map & draw out exactly what I'm going to do and how I'm gonna go about it.
Finally, execute.

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?!

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Area of focus: R

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

"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

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

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

Area of focus: Between my earphones
Cause: Plays metal

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

why do java developers wear glasses?

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

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

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.

My main area of focus is consistent therapy from working with PM's.

In other news, I work on the frontend design and development of internal web applications, good times.

Being Ill and a dev is the worst... Not being able to think straight and focus for more then 2seconds really kills any sort of work you can do

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

Maybe focus on my health and fitness for once.

When your deep focus music makes you sleepy

Don't get a Linux system because most pro devs use them, stick to a windows system and focus on things like your programming language, framework and IDE.

P.S windows has one of the best IDEs

For those who drink energy drinks "to focus"

#original

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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. 😕

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

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

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!

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.

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.

!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.

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...

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)

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.

!rant

Ok, just a curiosity. I've noticed something about the way I work. It seems that if I have too much energy, I can't focus. My mind wanders off to a lot of random things and I get easily distracted. If I'm somewhat tired, e.g if I haven't slept that much, it's much easier to focus on what I have to do. Anyone else going through the same pattern?

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.

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

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

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

Disconnecting with people around me with headphones and songs.. Turning off all chatting and notifications medium including Skype and Slack. Turn off mobile network and profile. In short, disconnecting from world helps me focus on goals more.

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

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

Get on devRant while compiling / waiting for results. Much time later I'm wondering how long that error message has been on my screen staring at me... and then I need to get my focus back into the code :(

code something with focus and presence of mind, otherwise don't.

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. 🤦‍♂️😅

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.

!Question

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

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

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

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.)

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.

one big screen > two screens side-by-side

Only me? Think it’s easier to focus.

Have a job interview in 4 days any tips on what all stuffs to focus on ?

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 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

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

A crowd sourcing system designed more around digital content with a proper cross platform focus.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

PSA: surpise-sending play-by-play instructions via chat on how to answer questions in a phone interview happening IN REAL TIME is not helpful and makes me look like a blubbering idiot

thanks but no thanks

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.

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 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?

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

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

On my way home I was thinking about learning something new. Now I can't focus at all, and it seems that every effort towards learning anything that's programming related is in vain. What's wrong with me?! I thought I liked this.

My dev area of focus is more like drinking coffee and devRant. Sometimes a lil bit of backend dev.

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?

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

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

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?

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

"We want :focus styles removed everywhere in our intranet because we don't like it"
- Very-Big-Company, multiple times "Nielsen Best Intranet"