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Ask HN: What do you do during the dead time while programming?

2 points by selrond ↗ HN
All those times, when you need to wait a couple of minutes to build / compile stuff, but starting to work on something in between is not worth it / impractical, but still - you don't want to get completely distracted, so you can jump right back quickly - what do you do?

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chadcmulligan
flip to an open HN tab, I used to flip to reddit, but I've blocked reddit now - wasted to much time.
selrond
in fact, this thread was a product of dead time
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sodimel
I waste time by drawing, browsing HN or (more recently) dev.to.
selrond
I have a hard time reading anything on dev.to TBH, I find it's way too pop-culture-unicorns-everywhere for how pragmatic programming is (should be?) in its essense
sodimel
I like the community-driven development of forem, but aaaall those posts about only nodejs stuff are starting to be boring.

Like if webdev is nodejs only. I struggle to find anything good about django :/

raihansaputra
Was in the same boat about Django online. The current community forum is pretty good, and I'm also subscribed to Django News for the regular updates. Really good resource. https://django-news.com/

Edit: And the Django Chat podcast is really good too

sodimel
In fact, I discovered Django News when they included a package I created (https://django-news.com/issues/30 − at the bottom of the page) :D

Now, I subscribed to their newsletter (and to their dev.to account too).

skfist
I typically use the time to write - my thoughts, ideas and notes of all sorts - which are directly or indirectly relevant to whatever it is I'm working on at the time. That's how I find problems worth solving. There are opportunities hiding in everything we do every day. All it takes is a portion of our time dedicated to thinking and synthesis of information from various sources.