Staring at your own code
Does it also happen to you that, after spending hours, days or even weeks developing on a piece of code, that once finished you are very satisfied with, you sit in front of it for hours, staring at it, just thinking how extremely beautiful all that is? It’s almost as if you are hypnotized by your own code.
As i (as most programmers) rarely am satisfied with my own code (it can always be better), this doesn’t happen very often, but today it hit me again.
The problem: It prevents me from moving on. Staring at code isn’t very productive. I have deadlines. I might even still find something that i could tweak so that my code gets even more beautiful. Oh boy..
The solution: I have to force myself to close all open windows in my IDE. Start a fresh session. And don’t open those pesky files anymore, at least for a while. It’s good enough, period. Now make that other code beautiful!
