Re:3 lines of code shouldn't take all day
by fhd2 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:27AM
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Wow, I never quite formalised this in my head, but I think it's true!
At least for small delays, say 30s-3m, I'm not tempted to go for that (other) dopamine shot of checking messages or whatever at all. I keep thinking about the problem I'm solving, what to try if the thing I'm currently trying doesn't work, and so on. I don't remember ever feeling limited with such cycles - literally only when fiddling around with CSS, which I quite often just do in the browser's dev tools for the fastest possible feedback cycles.
At least for small delays, say 30s-3m, I'm not tempted to go for that (other) dopamine shot of checking messages or whatever at all. I keep thinking about the problem I'm solving, what to try if the thing I'm currently trying doesn't work, and so on. I don't remember ever feeling limited with such cycles - literally only when fiddling around with CSS, which I quite often just do in the browser's dev tools for the fastest possible feedback cycles.