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Ask HN: What do developers do on Friday so they can be productive on Monday?
- PaulHoule 10y agoOne thing you don't do is release changes to production in a hurry on Friday afternoon. Often that leads to working through the weekend thus not being refreshed on Monday.
- dazmiller 10y agoLeave work early and have a weekend. No better way to have a productive Monday
- cauterized 10y agoI'm in a role that involves a lot of communication as well as code. I often get my best development work done on Friday afternoons because everyone's already spent the rest of the week asking me questions/updating me on things and they're out of things to say and/or goofing off in anticipation of the weekend. That said, on Fridays I like to: - make sure I've listed out all the things I need to talk to people about next week - get to inbox zero - clean up my personal to-do list - update my calendar to make sure I've blocked off time for development work next week - push all local work to the remote repository - take notes on next steps/blockers for my current project/task For an individual contributor, the last one is the most important. The weekend is the most massive context switch you can have short of a vacation, and it'll take you much longer to get back in the zone if you have to re-excavate the various layers of things you need to do in order to do the things that will let you do the things to fix the bug/implement the feature. Pro tip: do the same before you go home every night, too, and save yourself a headache in the morning.