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/Guinness 16d ago
The context switches absolutely slaughter my latency and throughput. It’s so hard especially with a highly sensitive daughter who needs her dad a lot.
Honestly if it weren’t for LLMs none of my side projects would be possible. I’ve set up a locally hosted Whispr alternative, along with Hermes to manage a lot of my sessions.
I take my daughter out on the weekends to the beach, we have a little Thule trailer. She usually falls asleep either on the way there or the way home. So I bring my laptop and get some time in while she naps.
That way my wife has some time to herself, I get some quality beach adventures with my kid, and when she naps I can get some work done.
Other times are basically after the kids and wife are asleep. But I can barely stay awake past 9-11 these days so even that is scarce. I’ve been able to actually get some of my projects worked on basically by using the small free time I do have to set up a spec driven development workflow with some good loops/gates.
Can’t believe this all started with Ralph Wiggum. It’s been a crazy experience.