Are you code obsessed?

[Chris Maunder]

Yes. Everytime I use a broken website. It makes me scream

cheers Chris Maunder

[Chris Maunder]

Yeah. It's an awesome feeling

cheers Chris Maunder

[Kdiggins]

Be assured, the pull will weaken with each passing year. It weakens quicker when we realize that the things that once dominated our attention and curiosity are becoming less relevant.

[Roger Wright]

Not with code so much, but I do experience this with other things work related. Being now the manager and sole full-time employee of a small Tribal utility company with electrical, generation, PV arrays and batteries, as well as water and wastewater distribution, collection, and treatment systems to worry about, there are a lot of nights like that. But when it's time to add some SCADA to the system, I'm sure some code will be joining the fray.

Will Rogers never met me.

[Daniel Pfeffer]

I don't know about obsession, but some code has left me with PTSD. :)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[RickZeeland]

Haven't got around to scanning tools, just preparing builder scripts (mostly DOS batch files) for the new "Signing PC" with the USB dongle where the signing and packaging now must take place, and trying to figure out how we can automate signing. Waded through reams of documentation on the CA's website without finding anything useful, but an article on StackOverflow looks promising ...

[CPallini]

Refactoring could be obsessive for me, kind of: "it works, but I really have to fix it".

"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

[kmoorevs]

I'm currently being pushed hard on a new project...we had a progress meeting late Friday afternoon and they want to schedule the next one (I've just been told) for early this week! :omg: Oh, you mean tomorrow? :wtf: This was the first weekend in 8 weeks that I didn't work on that project...I needed a break. :sigh: So I spent the weekend installing Win10 on a new SSD in an 8 y/o laptop for a friend. That was fun. Then I hooked up a new domain name I got last month to an Azure server that's been dormant for awhile now...might as well use it for something. That was complicated, but somehow it works. :laugh: Even after a weekend away from it, I woke up at 5AM thinking that a simple datatbase schema change could solve one of my current challenges. I then spent the rest of the morning trying to get some sleep while dualing dueling personalities presented the pros and cons of that approach in an internal debate went on for the rest of the morning. Is that obsessed? :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"

[pkfox]

All the time Chris, and occasionally I dream the fix for a problem

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[Richard Andrew x64]

I wouldn't call it obsessed. I would call it addicted. If you find that you're doing this to the exclusion of other activities you used to enjoy, then I would be concerned.

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[GKP1992]

Chris Maunder wrote:

and my own short attention span (squirrel!)

I suffer from this issue. Getting any significant work done usually takes me about twice as long, due to which I usually burn the midnight oil just to stay competitive with my peers. I wonder how have you handled yourself and if you can share some insight. Thanks.

[BernardIE5317]

Not quite as much. Also you are fortunate. I have on occasion raised my arms in exaltation upon some final success.

[Bruno van Dooren]

I was. But I detoxed. I still love coding. But it no longer usurps my life.

[ChandraRam]

On this site... is this a trick question? :)

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche

[destynova]

Yep! I've been out of a job for over a year, but still love coding. Woke up early and knew I wouldn't get back to sleep, so I came down before 5am and started looking at some SAT-solving code. Took a little diversion to test something out in the K language (a somewhat obscure descendant of APL). It's good to unplug periodically, but... this stuff is fun!

[Alister Morton]

BTDTGTTS!

[jan larsen]

Yeah, it happens now and then. But last time, it went a little wild, and I had to have the doctor tell me that what I experienced was stress symptoms. I was so focused, that I wasn't able to realize why i couldn't sleep, and why my heart was beating so bloody loud. Since then, I try to keep my coding within business hours.

"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr

[Peter Shaw]

I think it goes with the territory. I have to admit these days I do get bored with the run of the mill stuff, but it's generally the run of the mill stuff that pays my bills. Something new and exciting comes along however, good luck in getting me out of my seat!!!!

[agolddog]

I'd get that way when I was still working. I think it's a good sign--it means you really care about your software and craft--as long as it doesn't become an obsession.

[Steve Naidamast]

When I have an issue with my development projects I will just keep at it until it is resolved. Even at 73 years of age I will keep going for a straight 8 hours trying to resolve something. Then, of course, I will sleep quite well in the evenings. Nonetheless, I code all day on my current endeavors...

Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com