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Ask HN: How to deal with writers block for programmers
I suppose I'm in a bit of writers block, but for programming. How do you deal with it? Take a vacation? Drink a beer?
- NameNickHN 13y agoDo small things like code formatting, refactoring, commenting. It helps loading the code back into your brain and get into the flow.
- jesusmichael 13y agoDon't over think it... Most times people get writers block when they think of style and syntax over substance. I mean programming isn't like writing a story... you don't have to make up the fact that your function has to return a string with a username... you just want to do it bad ass... just write it... I call it Jalopy Code... its the junk that gets it done and then I go back and clean it up after...
- andkon 13y agoUsually when I get that, it's because I'm trying to make something perfect. To handle all the edge cases, to make something bulletproof. And then I take a deep breath and remember that the sooner I make a shitty version, the sooner I can actually figure out what I need to optimize for. So take a big breath and build the shitty version. You will save so much time in the long run.