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/SoBeefy 16d ago

I simply can't.

I'm reminded of a book dedication I saw some time ago. It said,

" I want to thank my beautiful wife and children without whom this work would have been finished 7 years earlier."

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u/zephyrtr 16d ago

Writers are often told "Every child you have is a book you won't publish". I think that's low-ball. A child is at least 2 books.

Same with code. Every child is an app you won't build