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Semi-related to “park downhill” is something I do at the end of the day if I’m still working on a piece of code - I’ll write a simple next task in a non-comment
by dugmartin 6y ago
Semi-related to “park downhill” is something I do at the end of the day if I’m still working on a piece of code - I’ll write a simple next task in a non-comment so it breaks the syntax. Then the next day I can dive in and “fix” the code which, at least for me, helps get in the groove.
- zylepe 6y agoAnother variation: leave a failing unit test that will pass when you implement the next thing you were planning on doing.
- toomanyrichies 6y agoThis is like the coding equivalent of Ernest Hemingway's "stop writing in the middle of a sentence" strategy for overcoming writer's block: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335637