Ben Halpern

Posted on Jun 15, 2019

Do you code on the weekend? How often, what’s your routine like?

#discuss

Top comments (55)

Nathan Tamez • Jun 15 '19

I do Personal projects and stuff. Every weekend to be honest.
my routine is

Markus • Jun 15 '19

Repeat?
Recursion in a while loop?

Nathan Tamez • Jun 15 '19

haha, thanks it should be

// Recursion in a while loop Bug fix
day(){
    eat();
    sleep();
    code();
    if (alive)  day();
}

Jack Williams • Jun 16 '19

Codeception, I love it

Kenneth Cochran • Jun 17 '19

Could be ala clojure.

(loop
  (eat)
  (sleep)
  (code)
  (if (alive?)
      (recur)))

Rifai Martin • Jun 18 '19

Game ?

Nathan Tamez • Jun 18 '19

I don't nearly as much as I used to or a would like to. Always something to do, like work or personal projects as I'm still in uni/college. I also left my game PC at my place at uni, so only have my MacBook pro. as much as I love OSX , games don’t play nicely with the hardware (good specs but lack of cooling) or OS. but sure let's add game().

// adding game(), and ditching recursion for a while loop
while(alive){
  eat();
  sleep();
  code();
  game();
}

Jason Huebel • Jun 15 '19

This is my attitude, as well. I often work on personal programming projects or contribute to open sourced projects. But if I want to be a lazy bum all weekend, I don't feel guilty about it.

Mohamed I. • Jun 15 '19

I really need to lean not feeling guilty about not coding in my free time. I've multiple personal projects that I've never finished.

Kesavan Palani • Oct 11 '20

I am also struggling a lot. It requires more discipline to work on personal project during weekend.

Jacque Schrag • Jun 15 '19

I actually actively try not to spend time coding on the weekend. If the mood strikes me, I might spend an hour or two on a side project or reading articles, but after a full week at work, my brain is ready for rest. I also developed carpal tunnel in my wrist last fall, so the physical rest is necessary too if I want to avoid being in pain during the week.

Nick Janetakis • Jun 16 '19

Weekends for me are not much different than weekdays as a self employed freelance developer. I work when I'm interested in working. Sometimes that's 15 hours on a Sunday, and other times it's 15 hours for the whole week.

Emirhan • Jun 15 '19

Every weekend, I try to concatenate one more design pattern in one and testing the results. Is it good or not ? if good then I'm using it in particular projects that I've.
Sometimes trying to write basic AST and thinking about of it to improve but I don't have not much sources that I can rewrite it properly again.

Jacob Evans • Jun 15 '19

I really need to do more reading. Not just articles on here but books 📚. Lol 😆

Giuseppe Vetri • Jun 19 '19

Here's my routine:
🛏️ Wake up
🧺 Breakfast
🧹 Do some house cleaning
🤓 Take some courses online for 1 hour
💻 Work on something i'm interested for 4 hours using pomodoro technique. For example: A blog post or some API i want to try.
💑 Spend the rest of the day with my girlfriend

Shannon Crabill • Jun 15 '19

Yes, I code on the weekend. And most weeknight evenings.

I do not have a set routine, but since my bootcamp started on Monday, I'll be spending that time reading course material, doing lab challenges and working on side projects.

I recently read an article about reading 200 books in a year and I'd like to combine reading more with code. I got a library card last week and want to take advantage of what coding/programming books are out there.

Steve Layton • Jun 15 '19

My Saturday routine has been polishing up any bits of code I started may have actually written during the evenings all week long. If I do write something during the week, it tends to be more of a brain dump, just enough to give me a starting point on the weekend. Even then I try not to spend too much time coding during the day, that can wait until after the little one goes to bed. Sunday follows more or less the same pattern.

Claro A Briones • Jun 15 '19

Yup I code on the weekend. Lately it's for freelance projects, but there are times it's for catching up on my day job backlog.

My typical routine is to wake up early on Saturdays (around 5am), do some light exercise and work until my family wakes up. This usually gets about 4 hours of solid work. On Sundays I sleep in, but get some work in on the evenings after we put the kids to bed.

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