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I once walked among London's canals and parks for 8 hours in a day and wrote a script I'd been meaning to write for years that visualised in ascii the degradati
by zwischenzug 9y ago
I once walked among London's canals and parks for 8 hours in a day and wrote a script I'd been meaning to write for years that visualised in ascii the degradation of server threads from log files.
Every time I got stuck, I stopped and walked again. I think I only did about 2 hours of 'work' that day, but it would have taken me weeks to do under normal circumstances and distractions. I slept like a log that night.
- zwischenzug 9y agoOh, and I resolved to take a day off work a week to walk London and write. So I work a four-day week and do just that :) Also, the script proved immensely useful at debugging appserver crashes.
- georgewsinger 9y agoHow did you stop to write code? Did you write your code in a notebook? On a smartphone? Or did you walk with a laptop in a bag that you would take out when needed?
- zwischenzug 9y agoThe latter.