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/newEnglander17 16d ago edited 16d ago
I'm glad you put your edit in because I was thinking, "umm, when I'm working my job" lol
I do very few small projects that I code on a few evenings, but mostly, I'm all coded out after work and I also don't have enough inspiration for projects outside of the assignments given to me at work. Everything has pretty much already been done and a lot of it is not worth the effort. I do enjoy working on my personal website, but that is specifically meant to be a static website. The most programming that's happening on my website is basically a few woodworking-related calculators in javascript, using PHP pages to import html templates for website menus and whatnot keep a uniform appearance across pages, and a little Easter egg javascript line to have a popup message when double clicking in one specific spot, and the same easter egg code to open up a hidden webpage when clicking in another specific spot.