I see this message after 75 days without closing devRant.

That could possibly work 😂😂😂

Procrastination is like masturbation: it feels good while you're doing it but you're only fucking yourself.

- I remember this every time, it doesn't help much but it does make me chuckle.

When the Universe tells you...

*after 2 hours of programming*
Me to me: you can watch one episode of [some series]!
Me to me after that episode: just one more couldn't hurt for once!
...............
...............
...............
*five hours later*
Me: "what am I doing with my life 😭

This happens too fucking damn often 😫

Every hobby project I work on.

Procrastination is not good.

colleagues: Hey, have you finished that app
Me:

When I access social media sites...

It's the Go Fucking Work chrome extension.

When you planed to do some coding for your self on weekend and can only sleep and do dumb stuff. Because you know it's a weekend.

Procrastination is a bitch.

I curb procrastination by throwing in a random "sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /" to my test cases to see if I have unsafe evals. It's like Russian Roulette every test.

Tell myself I'll do the documentation later.

Best way to avoid procrastinating: the sooner it gets done, the sooner I no longer have to think about doing it. When I have a bunch of shit to do, I start with the things I like the least, and save the more enjoyable things for last.

starts weekend with full mood to work on personal project.
End up watching youtube videos all day long.

My worst sin in one word: Procrastination

me when i wake up: im gonna code!
me 12 hours later: i swear ill code this time.

Procrastination is a bitch

whY CAN'T I STICK TO A PROJECT I JUST SWITCH BETWEEN 5 AND MAKE A TEMPORARY NEW ONE EVERY COUPLE WEEKS I JUST WANT TO FINISH SOMETHING

I wish I could learn Machine Learning. Automate my work and blame the machine for missing deadline.

if(isStressedOut()) {
procrastinate();
}

meanwhile (somewhere else in the code)...

void procrastinate() {
procrastinate();
}

Pair a FP programmer with an OOP programmer for nine months and they will give birth to a whole new level of procrastination.

Every damn day

Fight against procrastination.

//now I can cross "make your first rant" item on my todo list from 2016.

So the end of my college semester is coming up...

Procrastination 😂

Me in 2015: think I'm gonna learn JavaScript.

Me in 2017: think I'm gonna learn JavaScript.

It's like that ex you always want to call but you keep thinking she's moved on...

Do side projects in no more that two weeks, otherwise it’s doomed.

Just plain facts

Ok, I'm adding devrant.com, reddit.com and youtube.com to my hosts file for the next weeks

Damn procrastination

PS: If I answer or ++ any of your comments, it means I failed. You devs can hold me accountable for that, thank you!

The allocation of my time while 'programming':
50% Reddit
25% Stack Overflow
24% Error messages
1% Actual coding
100% Frustration

Google - I was going to type 'escaping # in json objects' but I am genuinely interested in what wisdom this Internet doohickie thang has on escaping polygamy...

*Downloads 37 PDFs of Learning Programming in ________*

*Doesn't read them*

*Subscribes to YouTube channels that teach programming*

*Attempts to watch everything*

*Fails*

me_irl.mp4

I'll try to answer this question a bit later.

One of the bigger and more important IT projects this fall. Technical solution proposal needs to be ready by Thursday morning but is far from complete. Solution? The responsible person for this went on a two day mindfulness training. Apparently totally oblivious to the term "sense of urgency". Must be a citizen of procrastiNATION.

Shit, I was supposed to work but found devrant today.. can't stop scrolling

*gets back home from work*
Yeah, I'm gonna work on that side project I started a while ago! I feel so excited!
*opens up computer, clicks on Witcher 3*

All the procrastination I have done.

Reminder to myself.

If you want to get shit done, don't start playing Mass-Effect.
You can't stop until you finished the whole trilogy.

Pro tip of the decade found on quora:
How to beat procrastination?
Start by this :" I will start my work in 5...4...3...2...1" and just jump of the place and go to work

*Looks up from his computer and realizes that he has a self-imposed deadline to meet, but has been reading articles on "How to defeat procrastination" for the last hour.

I’m now running Fedora Workstation as the primary OS on my laptop simply because Linus Torvalds does... I mean if it’s good enough for the creator of Linux, it’s good enough for me. 😅

I really need to stop fucking switching distros...

One word; Procrastination. I've learnt how to do it and I've learnt how to do it well.

When I’m at work I can’t wait to get home to work on personal projects only to get home with no energy and just procrastinate and/or play games entire weekend/afternoon.
Think is i also feel extremely guilty if i try to relax and do nothing, but at the same time able to understand that i need time to chill, just can’t get in a positive mindset about it. Am i the only one?

RANT!

I need to stop Procrastinating FFS.

I have a todo list bigger than my arm and just can't seem to get anything done.

Any tips to beat Procrastination?.

And just don't procrastinate doesn't work 😂.

How do you guys battle procrastination? I got it bad.

~ Stop procrastinating; the linux guide ~

# /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 youtube.com
127.0.0.1 netflix.com
# 127.0.0.1 devrant.com

Am I the only one who keeps adding articles to pocket and seldom checks it

Procrastination..

I mean literally.

So much to do, so many side projects gathering dust, so many new things to learn.....tomorrow

Me after realising I've procrastinated all day today instead of finishing a personal project :(

me a few days ago: I've been active on devRant recently! Finally a platform I don't drop after 1-2 days!
yesterday + today: * is on devrant instead of being productive*
well....
fk

Spent whole Saturday without writing a tiny piece of code.

Accomplishment?
or
Procrastination?

Me Procrastinating...

me: “I need to do some work”
also me: “but... but.. devrant”
me: *opens devrant*

Procrastination

Losing 1 hour everytime I must name a class that create something.

- ThingGenerator ?
- ThingBuilder ?
- ThingCreator ?
- ThingFactory ?
- ThingCrafter ?
- ThingMaker ?
- Thinger ?

FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I just spent 3 hours on devRant. This community is great <3

Do you ever go on YouTube to look something up then like 3 hours later find yourself watching videos on how to train giraffes or something you really don't need to know?

I have a chrome window about 20 tabs deep full of dev articles im just about to read

It has been open for 5 days

That moment when...

You’re supposed to be doing work.
You have a deadline.
It’s your sister’s baby shower and you promised to help.
Sis comes over every day to hang with family.

I’ve still not managed to get any work done today, video games and hanging and baking have had my time 🤣

I was up from 12-1 making jelly shots from scratch because my mum wanted blue ones and couldn’t find any blue jelly 😂

They’re bubblegum and for my first attempt I think they look pretty sick.

Will have to find out whether they set in the morning 🙈

I am the king of procrastination.

me: maybe i should update my pro- naaaaaahhh lemme just watch stranger things
*after almost 17 hrs of watching stranger things*
me: great, totally motivated to continue project.... but first lemme get some sleep.

i could have done so many things and i could have fixed some bugs but i didnt. procrastination at its finest.

Thank you VERY MUCH for wasting my life, ruining my new career and destroying my family. It hasn't been 24 hours from joining devRant and I am already addicted. Checking my phone every 5 minutes or so. Is this some kind of a conspiracy to wipe out weak and liable to procrastination devs? To suck them/me to a big, colorful fluffy garden of instant gratification?
Are you HAPPY!!!???

How I know I am a procrastinator.

Me: Starting from Monday I will not procrastinate anymore.

Procrastinating to stop procrastination.

When you take procrastination to another level... Adding Good looking table style output with emoji in a logging script which is only to be used once in a lifetime 😁

Did you know that talking about your goals actually decreases your chances of reaching them? It's a form of social validation. Talking about them and receiving praise from your peers in a sort of mini-goal which could replace the actual goal so you are less motivated to actually go for the real goal. Best of luck anyway! May the odds be ever in your favor when facing procrastination😂

How I stay focused:

1. Isolating headphones with energizing music.
2. Partition of job to smaller tasks (1-2h of work)
3. Short break after each task.
4. Closed DevRant, Facebook, Reddit and other media.

Damn procrastination, I'm sure I would've finished a thousand projects already, I just hate my brain...

Top 3 Reasons I program:
1: To procrastinate revising for important exams
2: To procrastinate other programming projects
3: Fun

How do you get in the zone?

Distraction behavior is my worst enemy. I'm productive once I'm coding, but I will do everything under the sun before I start.

Any tips or tricks you use to overrule your lizard brain?

To be honest I have no problem with procrastination. I love programming and there are few things I would rather do.

Sometimes I put my side projects aside and sleep on weekends.

I think I've reached a new level of procrastination, where I write the whole program in a comment in pseudocode instead of actually writing it in a programming language.

JustTechNerdThings #193240927340293

Having your tabs as a TODO list...

I am calling this a premonition rant, of more rants to come.
I have a feeling in my bones.
We have a newly acquired fat cat customer with bucks to blow who we have done some digital work for already and swag bag of marketing perkiness.
I will call the CEO of this whale "The Porcupine"
The Porcupine has a business degree and industry experience, nothing to do with websites or applications.
It claims to be a visual perfectionist yet never delivers an overall coherent review.
It likes to fixate on minor brand style differences in websites and apps we have built.
The Porcupine seems to be always busy with policy and legal and other things rather than participating in their own projects.
Procrastination on feedback or reviews until the day before release is common.
Many overtime hours worked, not a sliver of thanks. The haughty attitude indicative of somebody who thinks web development is like desktop publishing.

"It's just code" in response to a crash production server change they were warned was a risk that borked all of our responsive templates and took 3 hours to fix.
Their entire brand is shades of pea green, grey and lime. No serif fonts because they are suck. Arial and Helvetica are boss.
One of my devs missed a CSS style on privacy policy hyperlink text that went times new roman and I had various account directors and our CEO on phone telling me how embarrassing it was for us to let this happen.
Anyway. They pay on time and the cost estimates for all the upcoming work are juicy.
We have shitloads going on for an upcoming hard date conference and everything is already compressing.
Therefore I can already smell doom and feel those porcupine quill getting closer to my ass as I beg their AD today if we have any feedback on the 10 or so project reviews yet?
Nope.

Procrastination

Am I the only one who procrastinates only on starting a task? Like, once I start the task, then it's easy to keep going till completion; but I can't freaking get my butt into the chair and start.
Any tips on how to get over starting troubles?

2 day national holiday and i thought to myself "aaaah finally i can make up for the deadlines which im behind on!"
*spends the entir day procrastinating*

Just signed up today and I have spent the last few hours on here. I don't know how you guys get any work done while being members on here :-P

Thanks for being an awesome and friendly community.

Now I'll have to figure out a way to collect all the points!

Selecting the music to code to. As a matter of fact I just wasted more than an hour looking for the right song and now I am wasting more time ranting about it on devRant.

not universal, but works for me:

1. start listening to long video/podcast/talkshow i'm interested in

2. (optional) think about all the physical things i should do, such as cleaning the house, running errands, etc. conclude "nah, i'd rather stay at the computer".

3. open the project i'm working on, thinking "while i listen, i might as well muck about with this for a bit". the key is for the thought to be duration-indeterminate and non-commital, so it feels like an idea for a voluntary idle activity.

4. start mucking around with the project, starting with the simplest smallest tasks, to slowly shift my focus away from what i'm listening to, so it gradually becomes the background thing as the work gets into foreground of my concentration without me even noticing. this also naturally shifts me towards the more important and complicated tasks in the project

5. naturally lose track of time, realizing i've been working for 2 to 3 hours without break only after what i'm listening to ends (sometimes not even then)

6. at that point, take a break, stretch my legs, get some food, watch some 20-30 minute thing with full attention.

7. find a new long-form mostly audio thing to listen to, and go to step 4. repeat.

8. i found i can work like this 8 to sometimes 20 hours straight in a nice atmosphere, without feeling like i spent the time working with all the mental exhaustion it brings, instead it feeling like "i was listening to interesting/entertaining things and mucking around with some stuff on the side", with all the feeling of "i've been idling the whole time" except the work is actually done, or at least i made a progress. it feels almost like procrastinating except without the guilt because i can see i've done a lot through that time. kind of a good compromise between total procrastination and working your ass off into complete anxiety/depression

void procrastinate(){
procrastinate();
doActualWork();
}

Procrastination is weird... Their were a piece of code I wasn't looking forward to work on, so I started cleaning my apartment instead, putting some order in my files, and even tidy up my desk, which I didn't do for months 😐
And it finally took me 10min to actually write the code 😆
It's annoying, but I can't be the only one 🤔
At least I can enjoy a clean setup... Until it become a mess again...

!dev
I've got problems.
I deleted a porn video I had and now I've been trying to find it on a site I visit regularly for the past week with no real guarantee that it'll even be there.

I mean, a book is understandable, but a frickin' porn video?
Save me from this procrastination guys.

i should be writing some unit tests for a customer project, but i brought my new nintendo switch to work and there is nobody else in this room... :D

Have to turn two important projects in 1.5 hours. Had the time since yesterday.... Do other people procrast like this?

I'll rant about my biggest hurdle later

Almost finished writing some code, then got distracted by devRant. Now I'm back to post about it. MUST FINISH CODING! DAMN YOU DEVRANT!

I've been spending more time reading rants than working the past few days. Thanks for enabling my procrastination devRant! :)

My biggest obstacle? Stupidity, laziness, willfull ignorance, procrastination.

Sometimes my teammates are the ones guilty of these things too. That, and impossible timetables, but that's par for the course for pretty much all of us.

Literally any of them. I've got several open projects.

My personal website- started it, got about half the front end done, no longer liked it, so I scrapped it. Take 2: got about half the front end done again, and again, didn't like it. So I just stopped working on it.

A website for a local business. I was just screwing around to test my skills, and got the entire front end almost exactly how I wanted it, and then just stopped. (I got busy and forgot about it, tbh.)

A fan page for a sports team. I was going to try and test my skills to make a blog-like website, got a large chunk of the front end down, and a bit of back end done. But it took a back seat to my personal site, and is just collecting dust.

I have procrastination issues.

1. Gaming
2. Music "development" (I suck tho)
3. Netflix and chill, just without Netflix
4. Trying to write a book and procrastination is going great so far
5. Cats. Are. Life

My daily routine:
*wakes up*
*goes to class*
*procrastinates about project deadlines*
*cries to mum when stress levels are skyrocketing*
*legit does nothing to rectify life and then cribs about everything*
*cries to sleep*

Also, mum’s tired of me wailing.

Never do personal stuff at work, never do work stuff unless hours are being counted. Proper separation of duties.
Boss always tells us we only work 38 hours a week and any other time we do we can take off later.

Procrastination for work projects thus usually involves working on unrelated, more exciting projects instead of the one with the hard deadline ;)

Being a programmer with ADHD and always feeling like my decisions aren't my own is one of the worst feelings. It sometimes feels like programming is the only thing I can do, since when I try to do anything else I just end up getting bored and programming again.

Procrastination is like Masturbation only you realize after,
you were fucking yourself.

Now that I have devRantron installed on my computer, it is very hard to stay concentrated on my work 😅

Great work guys!! 👍

Well, guys... Every time I'm facing a weekend, I expect the whole days just coding, developing my own apps for Android. But in fact I'm loosing my time watching videos online, playing games, procrastinating... What's wrong with me?

*Have idea.

*Start thinking about it.

*Start seriously thinking about it.

*Push yourself to do it.

*Have a mini unconscious panic attack that tells you you're gonna fail.

*Do something else completely unrelated to what you wanted to do.

*Feel good about the meaningless shit you just achieved.

*Recognize you're procrastinating.

*Try to stop.

*You can't cause you're stupid and lack the control and discipline to trick your own mind.

*Watch video about how to overcome procrastination.

*Get a more firmer understanding of it.

*Realize you're a helpless piece of shit.

*Cry till dead inside.

*Resume daily mindless shit.

MVP = Mediocrity Via Procrastination

Best way to avoid procrastination : We tend to avoid commitments or to do large tasks as even visualizing them seems tiring and the longer it takes, the vulnerable we are to distractions

So I use this simple trick
I break my task into numerous sub tasks. For example if I need to finish a feature before day end, I would first list down all the cases I can think of in order and write them down using actual pen and paper.
I then start implementing them step by step.
I mark them checked once done.
It gives me a sense of achievement as I see those checks besides the sub tasks and I can also take breaks between steps.

So all it takes is just first five minutes of planning.
I had to do the above procedure, for this post as well.
Hope it helps fellow developers
:)

>Sitting at desk pondering over what is wrong with code.

:Top

BRAIN : "maybe we will think better with /another/ cup of cofee?"

Repeat until

BRAIN : "damn now im too jittery to think about code. Maybe if I relax woth some music/meme hunting ill be able to focus"

Repeat until

BRAIN : "Damnit i spent 2 hours on 9gag and not coding. Gotta get back to this bug squashing but im now so tired. Maybe some cofee will help me think"

Goto Top

What is more terrifying than procrastinating on devRant?

Right, procrastination on devRant with ++ features :/

Maybe less procrastination...

Didn't go to class on Friday cause some asshole broke into my car. Checked slack for my homework over the weekend before bed and...nothing.

Check slack 2 hours ago... huge project due in 7 hours... wtf slack thanks for no notification and updating my messages late as fuck...

Time to brew some coffee I guess.

How bad has YouTube consumed you ranters? What do you burn those hours on?

Post yours.
YouTube > profile > time watched

The height of procrastination:

One of the front end developer told me to change few things in two services I told him it’ll take one or two hours (although I did it in 15 mins). I just called him to say I’ll give this tomorrow morning its a long task. While the reality is I am too lazy to build the war and deploy.🙈

To all of us who procrastinate. Here is my new thinking that is making me slightly more productive! I would guess we all agree that the work is fucked up. But what we need to be productive, is an ego big enough to think that we are the only one smart enough to fix it! Just let your ego go!

Why code that project? Because other people would do it wrong! You fuck up the project? Fuck you, do it right or it won't be done right! My internal monologue from now on!

Does this mean I don't ask for help? Of course I ask! So that I can learn it, realise the other person is an idiot, then do it right using their technology!

If you don't do what you are planning to do, nobody will! Also most of the worlds problems can be solved with money, so that is why we should get rich. To fix the problems of the world.

Hope it helps someone :)

Dear Coffee,
I ask for your help.
I need to pass this exam, and at the same time a client is angry.
I invoke you.
Like the function I'm in.
A function of time, a function that will probably never halt but you cannot prove it. You hope it will stop soon, but deep inside you know it will continue to compute.
I beg you, Coffee. Make this function of procrastination stop. Please.
I see no escape.
It is a tail-recursive function. You realize it as soon as you reach the end.
You can do nothing about it, you're trapped inside this loop. At each iteration you hope to reach the bottom, but you never know. You can only hope that the bottom is close.
This is the last one, you keep repeating to yourself.
Please Coffee, let it be a non-pure function.
Make the environment change.
Only then we can be saved.

I really feel like coding right now, but I don't have time. Problem is: when I do have time and I have to code I probably don't want to anymore.

I found a way to make me procrastinate less on my own projects today! Stream development of it to Twitch.

Yes, there may be nobody watching most of the time; yes there may be nobody interested in a wall of text and no voice; but you just feel the need to stay on-topic when streaming, and I kinda liked it.

- delete all social network apps
- turn off push notifications of EVERYTHING
- open IntelliJ in full screen mode
- play jazz with very low volume

A few days ago I decided to learn C by writing a simple Minecraft clone. Guess who has less than 26¼ hours to do university exercises for two weeks. And It's not like I had double that time because of Christmas Holidays.

NEED to work on project.
let me just devRant a bit...
hours later...!!

My brain says " let's do something exciting today"

My body says " don't listen to that fool"

Procrastination !!

Wasting time thinking about the hypothetical future where I'm famous due to the X thing I developed.

3 projects due tomorrow...damnit procrastination, you got me again.

*sigh*

Never again, until next time.

Can't tell if devrant is good for catharsis...or bad for procrastination...

I'll decide later..

When you look at your desk and see books that count 2000 pages or so together and you just don’t find time to read them. I hate this, I want to read them but there’s just no time...
School, procrastination, YouTube, Rick and Morty, this list is forever...

Random thoughts that I need to put somewhere. that I’ve been holding in and have to get out.

I feel like I’m more welcomed and wanted here than in real life. My friends don’t really think about me when making plans anymore, no one really thinks of me in general.

In school I was the awkward kid that was nice to everyone and I’m not taking the whole graduation well. I miss high-school and my vocational school, I miss my friends and I’ve just felt like things ended too soon and I just kinda feel alone

I wish I could just sit down and program and not procrastinate the only time I seem to be able to get stuff done is when I force myself. I feel like I’m such a shitty developer for not fighting it better. I need to be better.

I’ve not had a good few weeks. Since I’m taken a semester off from college no one in my family besides me is able to stay with a family member that’s in the hospital. I volunteered because I care for them deeply and want to help them. but it takes a huge toll on me since I have to be the one that listens to the doctors tells the rest of my family what’s happening. While Im kinda freaking out because I’m scared and nervous and NOT READY and I’ve had to stay a week there and I’ve been having to stay on and off and I haven’t really told anyone how I really am feeling about it all because I don’t like to be vulnerable in front of people and it’s been really hard and taking a toll and not helping the procrastination.

I should get a tattoo.

It would say

King Of Procrastination

In the past: "Alright, have the day off, so can do some serious work (work on my game project). Let me just check my mail first... And a cpl of sub-reddits... And see if there are any updates for Unit3D, or any interesting forum posts, or new assets on asset store that look nice... And check some online newspapers just to see if anything is going on... And check if anything new has been posted on slashdot since I last checked 5 minutes ago (nope)... And maybe see if there's any updates to Sublime Text or new useful packages that can help improve workflow... Ooh came across article on how to improve workflow... Hm someone mentioned a new task-management system in comments, gotta check that out... I'll just sign up for a demo-account and... Hm but what if there are any better ones? Better google for comparisons. Wait, isn't there a new episode of Silicon Valley today? Gotta see that first, no time tmr. Hmm also new episode of Archer, and American Gods. Better get watching these out of the way first, or I can't concentrate... Ah, wait, it's dinner time, no point starting anything until after that."

Now: All of the above, plus "I'll just check devRant real quick before I... hmm... interesting rant... *scrolls and reads rants and comments for 3 hours*"

How am I supposed to get any work done? :_(

Story of my life

Slept 2 days as if in coma, procrastinating this dev test, not that I don't want to do it, or know how to do it, I just didn't feel like being near the computer at all this weekend.

Now cramming the dev test like cramming for finals.

Today I discovered that xkcd is not blocked by my corporate proxy. yay

do you feel guilty when seeing this?

I should be working. I am so far behind with both homework and my game.

*Does nothing but watch youtube videos all day*

I'm lazy. I barely work on my game anymore and procrastinate with all of my HW. Pretty sure Youtube has my soul.

I'm working on something. An i can't stop myself from browsing devrant every 10 minutes. Damn !

Who the fuck in Apple's marketing team decided that WWDC should be held at the exact same time as E3? Like how am I mean't to be distracted by the cool stuff at E3 at work while also being distracted by the stuff being released by Apple?

The key to successful project delivery is :
Procrastination and gallons of coffee !

Meh... The only magazine for us lazy folks.

Everyday strugle.
Go to work, go home all motivated like: oh once I'm home I can do this and that to finish my work, and it's fun and interesting. Or I vould study, or clean up, I'm totally gonna do something usefull!
*once home*
Ohhhh look league of legends! Or bed! I'm too exhausted to do anything usefull. Better chill.
...
Anyone else?
Anyone got advice for how to combat this? T_T

I'm really terrible at managing personal projects. I'm often procrastinating (I guess you could say I put the 'pro' in that word) or lacking motivation. I rarely complete projects because I always start something new and forget about the other projects. I have had a Sublime Text window minimised and related browser tabs opened for a year now and haven't touched it in months. I'll get around to it some day.
Some of these projects could be making a few dollars (hopefully more) if I complete them.
Has anyone got any tips to help me stop procrastinating and motivate myself?

Can't come up with ideas right now? Do you feel dull and without energy?

Write a Thesis! The ideas will start to overflow as if there is not enough memory to hold them. Promise.*

Buy now for only 1337 $ 💵

*does not apply to the topic of the thesis though

Slept after lunch when I have so much stuff to study. Now comes the guilt :/

Work from home, it doesn't stop the procrastination but it makes it less of a problem. Start a bit later, finish a bit later.

Procrastination, 'nuff said!

Strange that for every 9 minute video on Udemy I finally finish watching it after 4 hours

I got late at work today and top of that I really don't feel like working the rest of the day.

Is that normal?

Got tangled up on some routing issue with my Rails project yesterday morning so I democratically decided I was allowed to take a break... I launched Diablo 3 and that was the rest of the day...

I just sat there dungeon crawling, eating pizza, ice cream and drinking Monster like a fucking pig... Shame on me.

Hopefully somebody here has a good answer to wk64 because I've added YouTube videos about avoiding procrastination in my watch later list.

Procrastination sucks, even more when you are interested in the thing, still procrastinating 🙄

How do you deal with low motivation and procrastination caused by burnouts? I've worked on a project almost non-stop for 3 weeks, now I can't think of touching a computer nor going to the gym. All I do is sleeping.

Not directly related but also I have uni entrance exam in the next June but I didn't start studying yet, despite the fact that how much this projects kills me, I can't convince myself to get on that desk and open some books. I've never been in love with school or even things slightly related to school. I know how much I need a CompSci degree but I just can't get my mind straight and do what I need to do for achieving what I want.

Refactor?
Is it another word for procrastination?

You know these things that are obviously coming but you do not want to do them at any cost so you just keep on pushing them away?

Well it looks like I'm going to be homeless in January...

Giving an unrealistic timeline for a project. Got reprimanded a few times because of this. Oh and my procrastination habits do not help..at all.

Ignored, today I feel like a ghost in an office....

I think I've learnt something worthwhile from nearly every project I've been involved with. If I had to pick one however:

Started an open source project designed for projecting multimedia content during church services as procrastination from final year undergrad revision.

Fast forward nearly a decade, and I've learnt tremendous amounts as a result of starting it - dealing with everything from GStreamer on a native C layer, right through to WebRTC stuff (STUN, TURN, ICE, etc.) at the other end. What started as some odd attempts to show text and images on a screen in a user friendly fashion has grown tremendously, and is now used all over the world.

!rant

Thank you devRant for making my procrastinstion time more enjoyable!

My power supply project is almost completely done (it's in a working state but still needs some finishing touches) but I procrastinated with it for nearly 2 weeks. The reason being that the next step (making a side panel and soldering some 3600W AC lines to the ones inside of the unit) fucking sucks. I've done that soldering of 4 wires (3 inside lines, 1 coming in from the outside) before, and I honestly can't think of many things that I've cursed and sworn on as frantically as I did on this. This time of course being no different, plus some unstoppable coughing and stuffed nose, just because my body felt like acting up. Can't say that I had a good time.

But that's not really the point of this.. it's more about the procrastination part. It isn't really procrastination as in just being too lazy to get around doing something, is it? It's more like the reluctance to do something that you know is going to suck really bad. And even now I've only quarter-assed it (well probably half-assed, quarter-assed would've been the crocodile wires between the inner and outer AC lines.. just dangling on the floor, waiting for someone to step on.. beautifully dangerous, deadly almost.. just the way I like it :3)... Anyway, how do you get the "umpf" to do something that you really dislike and don't want to do, without waiting for 2 weeks to finally get around doing it?

Am I the only one doing this?

Anybody else felt a pressing why crisis leading to procrastination, a sense of impending doom, and and constant failures or feelings of failure.

Tip: If you procrastinate too much on youtube the css selector to hide (using your favourite browser add-on) is #related

Just don't be a developer
No code means no procrastination

I should have studied for my math exam, but now I can program a terminal calculator in FORTRAN77
//masterofprocrastonation

I should not be here...
I should be studying right now...

I was given 6 whole months to rewrite some old monolithic web app exactly 5 months ago today. Now I have to show my boss the progress I've made. How do I explain him that I wasted my time in this order:
1.- heavy procrastination
2.- try new frameworks to work with, pick one, start writing the app, regret and start over again using a different framework.
3.- devrant
4.- existencial crisis and self doubt.

Now all I have are a bunch of incomplete buggy modules and a mental breakdown.

How do you guys manage the stress of freelancing?
The work is never up to their standards they say, you have to deal with all your life, academics and procrastination...
Wish I get hit by a truck or something...😞

I always find the best way to avoid procrastination is just to indulge in it until it gets boring.

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

*mid procrastination* heads to DevRant, reads rants to slowly bring back to reality

My goal for the rest of the year and into the new year is to not procrastinate learning/practicing front-end and back-end development.

Oookayy, to continue from my previous rant, I kinda feel like living inside a slapstick comedy for the last 2 days, not the good ones at that, the ones that left you with vexation, so to summarise I'll just put the amusing conversations from the "team" for the last 2 days

On a side note, the team consist of 16 people divided into 2 squads, I'm still moving back and forth between the 2, and most of the time I just keep my silence,

*roll the intro,

- PO = product owner
- SM = scrum master
- D = dev

#1, "sloth, procrastination and ignorance"

*a dev came by to ask for some question

D: uhh, can you help me with this?

Me: sure what is it?

D: I want to be able to do this, so that it can be like bla blah blah

Me: ok, let me see, maybe you can do like (give a crude example on my laptop), there, let's try it, aand, it seems to be working, there you go, something like that

D: ahh I see, ok,

*pause

Me: well, ok

*pause

D: ok

Me: what?

D: can't you commit the change and push it?

*seriously? It's just a crude example for you to follow, not a final answer

Me: uhh, it needs some cleanup, but you do get how it goes right?

D: I do but... the code is there so I don't see why we shouldn't use it

*because you need to fucking learn how to write it yourself

Me: and like I said, the logic could be better, here, you can peek and retype it (sheesh, like teaching a middle schooler)

#2, "Don't you have anything better to do?"

*in a morning "meeting"

SM: okay, good morning everyone (it's 10 AM), there is something I would like to discuss, first is our attendance, based on the company policy, our attendance should be 8-5, and I see some still arrive at 9 and some at 10, So I want to propose that we all committed to come earlier, say, like at 8:30

D,PO: why?

SM: because there are instances when someone needed something, some people are unavailable,

*fucking illogical, it's your lengthy meeting that needs to be fixed, this one later goes on for 2 hours just to discuss about attendance time

*insert intense discussion for an hour

SM: so we agreed for everyone to arrive at 9, and to enforce everyone to be more committed, I want to put a penalty in place

D,PO: what kind of penalty?

SM: we already have a pool for our "snack money" right, let's put the penalty there, and the amount cannot be just any amount, it should be an amount that leaves an impression, otherwise if it's just a measly sum, some guys would prefer to pay the penalties and coming late

D,PO: well, how much is it?

SM: let's say it's enough to cost you 2 days worth of food, we'll discuss the exact amount later, but it's something around that

D,PO: whoa" wait, seriously?

SM: yes, seriously

*everyone went into chaos for the next 1 hour, and in the end the penalty thing is postponed for the future

*but more importantly, for fuck's sake, 2 hours for a meaningless conversation? And there's nothing gained on top of all that? If this is the way you guys work, I'm starting to question your capability as a human being

#3 "Otsukare sama, but not to you, yes you, fuck you"

*much later at the beginning of sprint retro

PO: okay, first up I wanna appreciate all your hard work, word from the management is that they didn't expect for us to be able to finish our features so fast, for that I would like to give my appreciation to you all

*everyone claps

PO: I want to say thanks to dev#1, dev#2, for making it possible, all the tester, ehh, but you (referring to me), you haven't done anything yet, so yours will come later

*what the fuck is that supposed to mean? I just nod and smiled

SM: ah, also one thing, the testers asks for a front end dev for our squad so here he is (referring to me), we finally have an FE dev, and a senior one at that (I have no idea, and never referred to myself as senior), and you, because you are considered as a senior, naturaly we've set a high expectation for you

Me: (smiled) eeh, I'll do my best (to get out of this ASAP)

*it's just been 4 days and you guys already prepared to shift the blame to me, neat,

#4, "The thing that was never discussed"

*in the middle of sprint retro

All: blah blah (talking about future sprint plan)

*fuck is this? retro or sprint planning?

D: uhh, I wanna ask something

SM: ok shoot,

D: next sprint we're gonna do feature X right? Looking back at what we did with feature Y, can we...

SM: we cannot talk about Y, we are currently discussing about X

D: eh?

SM: as I said, no talking about unrelated stuff, our discussion must not stray, we are discussing X

D: o..kay? Let's say, that we implement the same method as the one in...

SM: which feature are you referring to?

D: implementation of Y

SM: why are you still talking about Y? We are discussing about X, we must not stray from our current discussion got it?

D: umm, okay?

SM: good, let's continue with our matter, bla bla (ignoring previous discussion)

*what the fuck?

*roll end credits

Longest goddamn development time ever on this one app I’m working on. Totally got demotivated for many months. Only now just starting to finish it.

Random variation of how we learn based off a colleague.

1. I dont know what the fuck to do, i dont know what the fuck is going on
2. I don't know what the fuck to do, i know whats going on
3. I know whats going on, i know what to do
4. I know what to do, i dont know what the fuck is going on

Haha, i love my job, the place where devs play solitair with their Trello cards

That confusing moment when you've spent two hours browsing devrant.

You feel like you've wasted your time, but at the same time know it was worth it.

When I'm stuck at something and can't think of a way to solve it, I just keep running the unit tests and stare at the screen. And then youtube. And then I feel terrible.

What do devs here do when lack of motivation strikes hard? I have lots of projects in Swift and RN in progress but zero drive to touch them.

Asking for a friend ... 😂

I'm getting sleepy and I'd rather get some sleep now. But I know the moment I get home I'll feel like I'm wasting time if I go to sleep early. So I'll probably procrastinate and lie to myself that I'll work on that side project after I watch something on Netflix.

How to overcome programmers block !!!??

I usually avoid procrastination by turning off my phone, not going on social networks or YouTube and by setting some goals to achieve in a day.

Why do most CS videos on YouTube have to be explained by a person with a bad mic?

Spent the last year coding on ACA eligibility metrics and end of year tax 1095c automation for the company's employees. Just now getting around to doing my own taxes.

Me: I should divide my project in small parts. It will be a piece of cake.
Also me: (on last day of submission) 76 commits in 34 minutes.
*Face Palm* 🤦‍♂️

Newton's First Law: an employee will remain in uniform working motion until they open Youtube.

ranters,
how do you deal with procrastination?

Debugging and fixing other shit when needing to work on an enhancement.

I think it's procrastination, but in the end the thing I'm fixing actually works as intended, so I don't have to lay eyes on it anymore...

I just spent 2-3 hours writing a python script to make it easier to format solving system of equations through Gaussian elimination easier. It takes a matrix, then allows the user to perform row operations on it, and then it formats every operation done into LaTeX.

Alternatively, I could have spent that time actually working on the assignment it was meant to help me with, and probably finished 3/4 of it.

If I have, say, three moderately complex tasks to complete in a week, I'll finish them in two days. When I have three moderately complex tasks to finish in 2 days I won't even start any of them until the last minute.

Procrastination is the worst.

Procrastination and not doing real stuff

Am I the only one who is so excited for DevRant, I keep checking their playstore page awaiting the 50k downloads mark.

Working on an app to sync data between our ticketing system and an API a vendor made for us to interact with their ticketing system. I put off working on it for months, mostly because I had mountains of other "urgent" things that jumped in my face, but also because I needed to design the whole thing, and I really have to get into the right frame of mind for that kind of creative organization.

Today I dove into it. I built the JSON to submit, given whatever variables are necessary, and figured out after a while that the smartest way to handle this is not to search for an existing internal ticket, but to have the creation of the internal ticket set a flag for an automated sync process to check when it runs.

It's going to be much easier when I get that built, but now, knowing that, I'm daunted enough that I'm procrastinating. Think of something, chart it out with notes in a text editor, procrastinate.That is probably like 95% of the time I spend in "development."

I just want this week to be over so I can focus on coding =\.

Screw final exams, final research paper, final presentation, and final unit assignment.

I’m terrible at procrastination on things that don’t interest me and my fingers itch to minimize PowerPoint and maximize VS

For me I was so amazed by the fact I could control computers it was pretty much a morning til night thing every day for a month (which happened to be my study leave for exams I didn't want to revise for but hey! I landed a job in dev so
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Well i see those as two separate problems. To focus get a pot of coffee, put headphones on loud enough to tune out any outside noise, and lock the door. As for procrastination lean into the damn skid, go find something you like to do and come back later. The longer you fight it the more unproductive time you're going to have, and in my experience i get more done in 3 productive hours than i do in 8 unproductive hours

Alright, time to get to work and be productive today!

... 2 hours on devRant later ...

DAMN IT

How I love to get lost searching and reading random projects on GitHub...

Pills. Failing that, everything everyone else has said... if you find yourself procrastinating too much, get medicated.

On top of that, routine, regiment and willpower.

I started learning Russian recently, trying for the second time. This time around, I found that the small positive reward gamification elements of Dualingo to be a great help (Streaks and daily bonus BS currency).

I've also found myself using Trello to list out things I need or want to do to stop from overwhelming myself. If I have a new task or thing I need to do whilst I'm already getting something else done, I note it down and then forget about it until it's time to find something new to get done.

If all else fails, then look at yourself. Take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror. I became good at this through necessity, after illness and injury I realised that there's no time for chronic procrastination. If your life expectancy halved what would you change and how quickly?

If you still can't fix it, I'm guessing it's not as big a problem as you think it is... enjoy yourself!