Ask HN: Do developers also have a block?
Writers have Writer block or Artist have artist block ,so in the same way, do developers also have something like code block?
If you had one, what were the ways you used for dealing with it?
If you had one, what were the ways you used for dealing with it?
Highly recommend getting yourself a musical instrument at a pawn shop. Maybe reading about unihemispheric slow-wave-sleep.
Have a long walk, run, shower, sleeping. Read a good book. Do what ever it takes to get your mind out of the code.
It's hard to this generalize to everyone, but for myself no, never. Actually the opposite. It flows like water and I have many more ideas that I can pursue at once.
I don't start coding them all, rather I'll conduct layers of due dilligence and market research continually trying to separate what's promising from what's a rabbit hole.
I have a whole process to try and make what I work on efficient and good risk/reward. When I was younger I'd just get interested in something and start. No more.
Their theory is that if you are experiencing "writer's block", it means you need more ammunition. You need to do more research or thinking on the specific subject you're trying to write about.
For programming I often come up with inelegant solutions to complex problems. Being unable to think of a more elegant solution is something I could see being referred to as "programmer's block" (I call it "inexperienced").
Sometimes, days or weeks later, I think of an elegant solution to the problem and go back and rewrite the code. Something so blatantly obviously the only way I could have missed it before was due to "programmer's block".
Some days I just don't feel like writing code. I could also see that being referred to as "programmer's block." Especially when it lasts for weeks at a time.
1. You don't know what you need to. 2. You know what you need to do but are lazy and unmotivated.
Neither is a block.