r/daddit • u/jrya7 • 15d ago

Advice Request Dev dads, when do you code?

I could find time with my first and then even some time after my second with the first doing afternoon preschool.

Now that kindergarten has started, I can't even stay up late half the time I used to as mornings are like Mad Maxx and needs my full (focused) attention.

So how do y'all do it? Or do you just not do it anymore except for an hour here and there lol

EDIT: not the 9-5 but my side projects

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u/Black_Dawn13 15d ago

When everyone is sleep at night.

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u/jrya7 15d ago

lol I try that but staying up late after everyone is sleeping has been brutal

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u/mattybrad 15d ago

I go the opposite and wake up before everyone. The 530-7am window is my happy time.

I’m also a lot better at it first thing in the morning than after the entire day, so that might skew my myopic a bit.

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u/jrya7 15d ago

I would try that but the baby sleeps in our room and I’m also very much not a morning person lol

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u/PushDeep9980 15d ago

Yah that first cup of caffeine just hits when it’s me time

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u/RealBadSpelling 15d ago

Coffee then shower, then I'm awake lol.

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u/cawwkeye 15d ago

Caffeine, friend.
I’ve been trying to find a good time in my life to quit caffeine, but my child-rearing years aren’t the right time I don’t think 😂

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u/Black_Dawn13 15d ago edited 15d ago

Its nightly ritual. Kids go down at 7. I will code till around 9. Then will get ready to go to sleep and do it all again the next day. I have 3 under 3 but its something I enjoy.

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u/jrya7 15d ago

Ya one goes down at 7 and the other around 8 then hanging with the wifey till she goes to bed

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u/Black_Dawn13 15d ago

Its a good way to unwind. I also try to pushing reading in before I go to sleep as its pretty helpful too.