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I’m an old person now but I miss coding. With lil kids and stressful management work, I just don’t get blocks of time as I used to as a younger person. Can you share how you were able to code in breaks? As it takes time to get into a state of flow, I don’t even bother with short intervals under 2 hours. That is likely my mistake. Open to tips to wake up the code monk inside.

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No, you're right, and I should have set the expectation that you can't really get into deep thinking mode that more demanding tasks require.

But a lot of it can be discrete or boilerplate. While it's not muscle memory yet, leaving comments for myself and implementing them later, especially when it's about implementing $routine in $language. This is useful when learning.

Doing integration work will take focus or great planning + notes though. But I think it can be done to a large extent. I find it easy to pick up old abandoned projects where I've left enough comments to my future self.

And I'm in my 30s now so not the youngest in software either.

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