You ever spend a few weeks on a problem. Make little headway on it then get distracted and forget about it for 2 months only to comeback and fix/finish the entire thing in a handful of hours.

That was me today. Could not get something to work back in March. Didn't touch it till today. And just magically I knew what I was doing wrong before

This is what I call subconscious programming. Your brain works on stuff in the background. You can learn to propose a problem, do something else, and come back with it solved. This is why you think of stuff on the toilet I think. Also, changing environment can help too. Helps think in new, different ways.

@Demolishun what is the command to see all the threads that are spinning in the background? I'd love to stop a few

@Demolishun that's also why procrastination can be useful if you feed it right

@alexbrooklyn Take a holiday with a few friends? Usually clears the cache for me :-)

This happened to me one time.

I got frustrated with a problem and put the project away out of irritation. Six months down the road I was on the way home from work and the solution just came to me while I was stopped at an intersection.

I've also been woken up with the solution to problems that kept me up way too late as if I had been shouted awake.

@cuddlyogre Einstein used to keep a notepad next to his bed. He would wake up after dreaming of a problem.