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Ask HN: What do you do on weekend?
What do you do on weekend? (for programmers)
- edw519 17y agoCode with less interruptions.
- Novash 17y agoDitto. Code my own projects with little to no interruptions.
- timmaah 17y agoMake sure I spend some time outside away from the computer and technology in general...
- petercooper 17y agoExactly the same as during the week. As I work for myself weekends are normal days like any other. I just take random days off with no regard for what name they have. My wife has always worked weird shifts (and is now off for a year on maternity leave) so it works family-wise.. and we don't have to wrestle with the horrible weekend crowds at places. The only real benefit of the weekend is less e-mail to deal with :)
- Mongoose 17y agoRead and fiddle with code by day. Hang out and imbibe with friends by night. I've been doing a lot of tea tasting around Seattle lately too.
- leftnode 17y agoIs this only what I do programming wise, or for all programmers? Cause I: * mow the lawn * exercise * clean the house * watch some TV with my wife And then programming-wise, I work on my side projects and work on building my own software company.
- wheels 17y agoWhat's a weekend?
- tptacek 17y agoThe 2 days you allocate to every week to keep yourself from burning out in 3 years and then spending 7 months doing nothing but following links on Reddit.
- dschobel 17y agodoing nothing but following links on Reddit ah, the good old corporate job.
- CyberFonic 17y agoWhich means you shouldn't be at work on those two days of the week.
- wheels 17y agoAt this point I plan for burnout. It's just part of my productivity cycle. Small burnouts happen 1-2 times a year and involve about a week of doing nothing; large burnouts happen every 2-4 years and require a couple months. This happens with or without weekends.
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- tptacek 17y agoSaturday is my sleep-in day, Sunday is Erin's. I'm on the hook for dinner Saturday night; I try to do something interesting. Sunday night I tend to watch TV. In between, I get some super-unproductive computer time in and hang out with the kids. Recently, it's been Mindstorms. Last weekend we picked apples. This weekend is my sister's wedding. Next weekend I owe my son his belated promised Dim Sum birthday lunch. A couple weekends from now, I'm doing a class in Chicago for cryptography for security testers. If that works out well, I'll probably try to do some kind of class every other month. A class occupies two weekends, one for the class (and dinner afterwards) and one before that to rehearse. More than you wanted to know, but hey, thanks for giving me the chance to straighten my schedule out in my head.
- pasbesoin 17y agoReminded me to check the website for the local orchard. Golden Delicious picking scheduled to start next weekend. Yum! And a few hours in the orchard is generally one of the highlights of the year. :-)
- tptacek 17y agoAlways go earlier in the year than you think you should; right now is perfect. :)
- pasbesoin 17y agoMicroclimate keeps this one a bit behind others in the area, in addition to the region running a bit late this year. But will try to be there on the first day they open up the Golden Delicious to picking.
- dkasper 17y agoThe same things I do any other time.
- felideon 17y agoGet out of the house for my family's sake. (With them of course.) We also sleep or watch a movie in the afternoon if my son is tired and needs a nap. At night I try to be productive and hack, or I do some research/reading since my mind is not fatigued.
- raquo 17y agoSome times I even meet with friends on weekends.
- dnaquin 17y agowatch football.
- ax0n 17y agoIf it's like the last two weekends, I'm going to be working. so far 18 days without a proper day off.
- logicalmind 17y agoI hope you are working for you own company. If not, maybe you should be...
- ax0n 17y agoWell, it was only ~5-10 hours per weekend 2 weekends in a row, and it was in the name of making stuff easier for my team for the future. In general, I like my job. And I actually got out on my bike the past two weekends without working, got some computers built to hopefully find their way into the homes of school kids who need something simple at home, and I'm about 18 chapters deep into Snow Crash, which I feel REALLY BAD for putting off for so long. Never read it before.
- rokhayakebe 17y agoEmail bloggers, or reply. Email distribution partners, or reply. Make changes on the site. Then from 11PM until 2 AM I actually go out.
- dfranke 17y agoThe same thing I do every weekend, Pinky...
- comster 17y agoTry to take over the world!
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- timwiseman 17y agoPlay with the kids and try to get caught up on my homework for my Master's program.
- kd5bjo 17y ago- On call - Sleep - Spend time outside - http://sfgames.org/ http://sfgames.org/ - http://www.berkeleygoclub.org/ http://www.berkeleygoclub.org/
- alum 17y agoSometimes I'm on the computer, sometimes not, but I always try and catch the Arsenal match (whether on TV or some online feed).
- mrshoe 17y agohttp://dieselweb.org/ http://dieselweb.org/ http://shoptalkapp.com/ http://shoptalkapp.com/ Ah, the joys of bootstrapping a startup on the side...
- apalmblad 17y agoGet the hell away from a computer. Heh, that sounds negative. I love by job but I find it easiest to keep balanced by getting away as much as I can for the weekends. For me, that's hiking, climbing, and back-country skiing. I pay for managed hosting for a reason. Or work on code of a more interesting variety. As a startup founder, there's usually an interesting problem percolating in the back of my mind, and some days just finding a nice coffee shop and working on code with less distractions is perfect.
- icey 17y agoAnymore I write more software on Saturday & Sunday than I do M-F. So which one is my weekend?
- staunch 17y agoSome combination of: Programming, Reading, Drinking, Poker, PC Gaming (Urban Terror, StarCraft, UT3, Quake), Magic: The Gathering, Catching up on entire seasons of good shows, Movie theater, Shopping (food), Walking (w/dogs) Big fan of being home on the weekend. I like my home.
- movix 17y agoSurf, learn and practice bushcraft techniques, daydream about owning a campervan for kids/bikes/surboards, take photographs of clouds, go fishing but never catch anything.
- allanj37 17y agoI brew and/or drink beer! Camping, computer games, ultimate frisbee as well.
- DarrenMills 17y agoI would be glad to share, but I cannot remember.
- leviathant 17y agoGo to a concert Go kayaking Work on the house Dishes, laundry, groceries, lawnmowing Drive to another city (east coast megalopolis FTW) Stay in and chill with me wifey Work on music stuff
- apgwoz 17y agoWho needs the rest of megalopolis when there's nyc? :)
- warp 17y agoI spend two weekends per month just at home, mostly coding +reading/playing video games. The other two weekend usually involve concerts/festivals or just visiting friends. I need that balance, too much activity on weekends means my head won't calm down when i need it to... and too long without seeing normal people and i get lonely :)
- davidw 17y agoI play my favorite video game: emacs. Joking aside, I make sure to do a bike ride on Sunday, and lately, I spend lots of time with my daughter.
- msluyter 17y agoBoardgames.
- mangoleaf 17y ago1) Continue playing taxi by driving son to engagements. 2) Downtime from taxi work: movies, hang out at beach, etc. 3) Step back from implementation and think big picture. Meditate on what I have been working on. Veg-out. Let the mind wander. It has often wandered interestingly.
- sgoraya 17y agoIf we are not headed out of town: - Clean up around the house / garage / yard-work - Wash the truck if needed - Watch a movie or sports (I like to set aside time for at least one football game if possible) - Read lazily into the afternoons - Videogames if time allows - my ps3 is collecting dust and a couple of unopened games...
- PieSquared 17y agoPractice capoeira, spin poi and contact staff, contact juggle, read, program my own projects, play Dungeons and Dragons and see moview with friends. In general, live.
- tgittos 17y agoA random grab bag of spend time with my partner and friends, watch movies, read, code personal projects, blog and goof off online. Some weeks I'm really energetic about progressing in my personal projects (or getting side tracked and coming up with new ones), lately though I've been avoiding computers. Tonight I might drink, then try some drunk coding.
- PStamatiou 17y agotypically dinner and drinks with a couple of friends friday night. catch up on sleep, wake up 10-11am saturday, clean up the apartment (more productive when it's clean!), take the puppy for a super-long walk, work on my blog (it pays more than my startup does, so gotta show it some love), keep working on the blog, go out for dinner with friends, wake up late sunday, finish working on blog, then back to startup work until 1-3am. then startup stuff during the week. more or less.
- logic 17y agoWrenching and racing. Occasionally programming, as it relates to wrenching and racing.
- PStamatiou 17y agoauto-x, scca, drag, what? i tinker with a mustang myself.
- tokenadult 17y agoWatch children's soccer games after teaching my supplemental math lessons, at this time of year.
- b-man 17y agoMeet with friends, some scheme coding, little running, sometimes surfing, beer, stoned gaming, judo/jiujitsu. Oh, and if has-girlfriend girlfriend pleasing else girl hunting end
- keefe 17y agodon't forget... if count-girlfriend > 1 juggle
- steveplace 17y agoI talk about the stock market for 2 hours live on stocktwits.tv
- The_Lost_Hacker 17y agoWhatever I want! Yeah! WOOOOO! Friday bitches!
- herdrick 17y agoHeaded to the beach this weekend, I think. Will snorkle.
- JangoSteve 17y agoI used to work straight through, nothing like 2 entire uninterrupted days of pure productivity. Then I got a girlfriend. Now I spend those 2 days being productive in other parts of my life.
- ApolloRising 17y agoDog Parks and Hiking
- wmblaettler 17y agoAct as stay-at-home Dad since my wife works as an RN for 28-32 hours over the weekend and is off during the week, where I work 40 hours + parttime freelance/hacking. Clean, cook (I enjoy cooking immensely), fix stuff around the house, spend time with the kids.
- jhancock 17y agoSaturday I spend with my son. Sunday, a bit of rest. If I'm feeling fidgety, I spend a little time online but am trying to find better outlets.
- iuguy 17y agoAdmin saturday. I do all the business stuff that gets in the way during the week and (if time permits) write some proposals or produce some deliverables without interruption. Sunday I try to keep as my day, which I spend with the one I love.
- potatolicious 17y agoTaking pictures. I hate exercise, and the only way I'd get out of the house is with the promise of good photo ops. This weekend I'm doing a 13mi bike ride to get pics from a lighthouse.
- astrec 17y agoIf the weather obliges I might go paragliding, if not geocaching. Which ever way it pans out there shall be beer.
- Travis 17y agoWeekends are when I'm able to work on my startup. Compressed work schedule for paying job, 4 days x 10 hrs / day. 3 day weekends mean I can relax and put some solid hours in on my startup.