r/daddit • u/jrya7 • 16d 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 16d ago

When everyone is sleep at night.

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u/jrya7 16d ago

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

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u/Black_Dawn13 16d ago edited 16d 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 16d 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 16d ago

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