My team mate trying to focus!

My dev area of focus : that hot girl in QA

I need to focus on work..........
ENGAGE TUNNEL VISION

Honey, I love you, but plz I'm trying to focus

Too much noise in my workplace, can't focus on my code,
bought 300 bucks noise cancelling headphones,
best money i've spent

Need to work on my focus. I feel like it's one of my greatest weakne ... hey look, a DevRant notification.

What I do when I sit down to work:
Get a cup of coffee or tea,
Sit down open up some music; rock if I'm feeling okay or slow jazz if I'm feeling anxious,
Open my text editor (Atom, I love it so much),
Open git desktop,
Look at what was my last commit,
Remember where I left off,
Look blankly at code for a few minutes,
Then I pull up phone and start writing stupid shit like this on devrant.

Your fucking single page whatever the fuck app doesn't need React! Stop overcomplicating everything and getting distracted by shinny new frameworks, just focus on solving the problem!

!rant
Love that little fidget cube. Keeps me away from shaking my legs and helps me to focus.

Broke Up with my girl.
Can't focus on Project.
Plz help, tell me how you guys recover from this.

Ever since I started working at a company that has a real focus on software I have less to rant about....😒

Just bought a sound muffler recommended for a firing range, so I can focus while I work.

Giving up on music to focus on programming.

uuuuugh, bllllaaa, grrrrr....<ding>...and,focus.

I got some stickers from the German party 'Die Piraten'. They support data privacy and focus on Internet related things.

The stickers are just awesome.

After 8 hours of focusing on two monitors at work, I go home so I can focus on my own two monitors.

My dev area of focus: Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Why: because I am the CEO 🤓

"A friend once insisted to me that the plural of 'moron' is 'focus group.'" - Ethan Marcotte

Area of focus: my desk
Why: because that's where my laptop sits

That's how computers look in our school (with main focus on science)...

"Windows XP"
"No internet"

I have seen people using 800$ smartphones' cameras without using the focus...

!rant
Since I joined DevRant my productivity went down...

Well... Im not sure if I should be happy or sad about it.

Focus: C#
Why: Because Unity makes me use C#

Firefox focus ;) privacy anonymity and no ads from default.

Don't forget to drink lots of water to keep the focus 👌🏿 have a good day! :)

Do anyone else have major focus issues? When I'm enjoying something, I can focus completely for a long time. But when I'm miserable, 15 minutes seems to be the maximum I can focus.

It's really hard when you have long passages to read for class and are unable to focus long enough to actually absorb the material.

I really want to try ADHD medicine, but I don't want to rely on it to focus.

I enjoy listening to Metalcore while coding. It really helps me calm down and focus/concentrate (the irony of that whilst having someone scream right into my ears 😂). It also helps me chill and regulate my emotions better. Am I weird? What helps you focus and code better?

I can't f***ing focus :'(

My headphones just died because the battery is empty!
Not a good start!
I forgot the cable at home!

Bye bye peace, productivity, and focus

Me on drugs at work: *focus as fck*
Me at work: shit, what the hell people around me talking about

Damn i love herb

Working from home routine (Lockdown edition):
1. Wakeup at 8am
2. Meeting at 8:30am
3. Next 3 hours just focus on coding
4. Push code to source control
5. Focus on myself

The day your boss tells you tests are some kind of self-satisfaction for developers and asks you to focus, to not introduce bugs.

“Stop starting, start finishing”

My place be like

“Never stop starting”

Please Windows give me the option to disallow any app from stealing focus. I cannot deal with any app that thinks it’s okay to give itself focus while I’m fucking TYPINGGGG

Music is annoying.
Listening to music sometimes helps you focus, and other times distracts you because you're too busy "singing".

I think I need to focus more on work than to spend time here.

When you've been coding for what seems like an hour and when you finally look up it's dark outside 😛

I have no patience when softwares takes time to load.

It ruins my momentum/focus and I just wanna throw everything away.

Spent fifteen minutes finding the right playlist to listen to while coding

5 minute later, I pause the music trying to focus

So my boss just announced that our department's focus should switch from C# and AngularJS to Sharepoint and MS Power Apps.

!Rant

How do you deal with open space offices?

I find it quite difficult to focus, the constant chatting, the constant questions, phone ringing, surprise meeting, more question, arrays of interruptions and questions again. I believe I would be a lot more productive if left alone in the total, undiscontinued silence.

Have you found your escape, your zen, your inner focus? Please share, I need some ideas

My dev area of focus? Machine Learning! Because it's fascinating to teach a computer to learn from experience :)

I have no idea what I'm doing and tomorrow is the deadline of my task.

Its so hot in the office, makes it hard to dev and focus 😅

After almost 6 years of emotionless journey with a single focus towards my career, I have a crush on somebody.

Now I'm confused AF 😕

I hate when I do CTRL + w in Firefox thinking that the focus is on VIM.

In job description :
.....
- You should have a good communication skills .
....

At the company:
JUST FOCUS ON WRITING CODE , No useless conversation

I'm looking for ways to focus on coding. So, yesterday i deactivated my facebook and it seems life is more productive now.

I was not able to write a word today. Hate it when this happens.

Zero focus.

Issues I didn't know I would face when trying to study from my parents' place: They're not talking to me and disturbing me, it's the fucking cat snoring so loudly that is distracting me 😅

Me,: we devs need silence to be able to focus properly, and to develop good quality software.

Marketing guy: we need to hang a frame on the wall.

Other marketing guy: yeah, let's grab the drill and make several holes, fuck those devs.

So close to burnout that:
- having troubles sleeping
- nauseous all week
- barely can eat anything
- muscles starting to jam
- unable to focus

Fuuuuuuck this shiiiiiiit

Area of focus : get rid of noisy office mates

Why : so that I can focus on my work

Me sitting down to code for the first time in months after having an extended focus on design

I lose all focus when I hear my coworker spell out websites on the phone... "H-T-T-P, BACKSLASH BACKSLASH..."

Money will follow, focus on your skills. - my tech-lead

1. Coding
2. Answering everything said on Slack

Pick One.

I decided to start learning go yesterday.
I had a Fun little automation task at hand and got to work...

The next time I checked the clock it was monday 02:40 AM

Getting up at 06:10 was hard...

Don't focus too much on learning one specific language. After some coding getting to know a new one is going to be no problem. Focus more on paradigms and maintainable code.
Oh, and don't forget, comments are sometimes way more useful than the actual code.

Heard this from my professor today-
" Focus on product not on technology"....don't know how true this is.

My own damn thoughts and inability to focus

Writing coroutines for io_uring. Submissions aren't working (they go through but the operation never seems to complete). Just fixed a few segfaults because of error cases not destroying coroutine handles correctly. Been on this for two days, finding more and more things I need to do that unrelated to the task at hand. Don't have issue tracking set up yet because haven't had time. Mountain of things that need to get working just for a demo is only growing. Layered maps of data structures and code flow are in my head as I'm trying to mentally debug some of this. I'm focused, completely dead to the outside world.

Then I feel a small scratch on my cheek. Three hours of mental mapping and a deep stack of thought, vanishes into thin air in a single moment.

The trade-off is worth it though.

Headphones, a quiet room, a comfortable chair, something to drink (coffee, red bull, water, tea) and something that is interesting enough to totally focus on.

Focus? What focus? Its easier for me to define what ISN'T my focus. I don't do web UI/UX. Pretty much anything else is fair game.

My area of focus has and always will be making sure my code is clean and to the point.

when you have one of those days where your mind constantly blanks out and your ability to focus is null...

Sometimes I wish I could focus my dumbassness on something productive

Coding at night with noises that bring about focus is the best. I use noisli.com
Fellow devs, check it out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When you touchbase on all multiple languages but don't know any of them properly.

Focus on one. Focus on one. **talks to self**

Earphones + music. The best way to cut off from the outside world and focus on development.

that feeling when you start looking at code after dinner, correct a bug or two, start implementing new features, tweak the code a little bit, you are really focus in your coding... then look out the window and realize the sun is about to come up. it's great 🤓

Low motivation and low focus

It really is a great feeling to be able to put your headphones in and lose yourself in the code for a few hours without interruptions (except for devRant of course).

Yoga really works for concentration and focus !
Debugging is faster now :)

Which sport u do ?

What if I could focus on coding 🤔 instead of
• meetings
• bureaucracy
• freezing in my apartment
• asking dumb questions
• procrastinating

Tough Choices..
Too many of them 😂

Area of focus : Robotics
Why? : "why not?"

I've been using Firefox focus for a while, and for the most part, I like it. But why the hell won't it let me go to government websites (taxes, passports, etc)?

Regular Firefox has no issues with it, why does focus?

Think I am going to try out my first stuff for my game engine in 2D. The games I have the most fond memories of were 2D. Sure I like what has happened on the 3D side. But it would be fun to recreate some of my favorite 2D games. Except with one caveat: procedural generation. Never play the same game twice. For testing purposes I will have a seed system to regenerate the same worlds. I would have played these games so much longer if they had been based on a seed for generation of content.

I also like the idea of weapons and armor never being exactly the same. Sure they can look similar, but on close inspection you could see differences. It will be fun to start with base models and then add imperfections and differences.

Another issue I have with fantasy games is always leveling up the weapon by buying something better. Sure we have improvement systems though smithing and magic, but some weapons are always better than others. I wanted to have a game where weapons could be improved by usage and upgrades. Kill 1000 trolls and the weapon gets imbued with trollbane. Kill a dragon and the blood infuses and it deals fire damage. So a player could start out with the family sword and end up with a god tier weapon at the end of the game. Make weapons become legendary. Not because it has more power, but because trolls recognize the blade and the wielder and are scared shitless.

Terrain in 2D should be a lot easier to generate. Weapons, armor, etc should be easier to modify and generate. This should give me the grounding I need to develop the algorithms for a future 3D system. Godot is currently stronger in 2D than 3D. That will change in the next couple of years as more focus is put on the engine. There is no reason I cannot experiment with mixing 2D and 3D as well.

Holy shit, I was just thinking I cannot imagine the amazing shit they could have done with the games I played as a kid with 2D physics!

Haha, something they had in the older games was actual gambling. You could bet on monster fights and slot machines in game. I wonder if that takes a hard hit with ESRB now?

Currently stuck in tutorial hell. Learning how the engine works and seeing what features are available. I get more excited each video I watch. The engine is packed with goodies and the addons are crazy good.

tldr: First project will be short game in 2D. Will explore procedural content.

1. A login window or form appears
2. Enter username
3. Enter p-
4. Another application STEALS THE FUCKING FOCUS
5. Enter half of the (or the whole) password in the app that stealed the focus and press Enter by mere inertia

Or this variant:

4. The username field gets autofocused
5. Enter the password in the username field, out in the clear for everyone to see

DON'T YOU STEAL ME FOCKING FOCUS MATE

Coding is basically staring at the screen for several hours :p

I swear to god, if I read another medium post on how you managed to be focused and productive I will fucking... well... roll my eyes, make a facepalm and rant about it on devRant!

Who gives a shit if I'm unproductive and unfocused?!

Well, look at me now, I'm fucking productive while I write about you, you fucking peace off shit! And guess what? I'm not even using any of your 40 todo apps or time trackers. There is no pomodoro timer next to me or framed quotes from Steve Jobs hanging on the wall. Oh, I must be a fucking genius!

But what if YOU became unproductive?
What will happen when YOU start to procrastinate?

Do you really think the world would care?

Oh, but you are not really a writer are you? you're a developer building your app!?
Well fuck, I guess you're going to change the world than?
It's your big project. Your life's work, your legacy.

Let me remind you...

All apps will be abandoned!
All blog post will be forgotten!
Productive people will die!
Focused people will die!
Enthusiastic bloggers writing about productivity will die!
All CEOs and CTOs will die!
All developers will die!
Steve Jobs is dead!
In x years, you and I will also be dead!

Whatever you do, it's not really that important!
It's really not.

You're not going to change the world.
The world doesn't need another app.
The world doesn't need your advice on how to be productive.
You are not special.

Deal with it!

I was trying to improve the UX of my design by not forgetting the accessibility and by making the contrast as obvious as possible without sacrificing the look. I took my glasses off. I never thought I was doing this for me all this time.

Headphones on, in the zone, deep into some heavyweight logic, blissfully unaware of the office surroundings.

Get tapped on shoulder. "hey, I've finished that easy task a deformed amoeba could have done. Want to see?"

NO!

my boss plays music at full volume all day long.
not only i can't focus on my work, but also i don't enjoy his music

Focus of mastering one language, don't jump around to every web langue out there.

Also don't follow the programming language band wagon. Focus and master the basics first HTML, CSS, Jquery. These aren't going anywhere and a SOLID understanding of JavaScript will go WAY further then you think

I can't focus on my task and get motivated because I want to change my position in the company I'm in.

I can't change my position in the company I'm in because I can't focus on my task and get motivated.

Lately I feel like I'm mentally working at 50% of my capacity. I'm spending the time, but I feel a major loss in focus and motivation.

This is just a rant, but I think some of you might have faced this at some point. Did anything help you lately?

Epic labels from managers crack me up.

They're so generic and undescriptive.

"Focus on users"

"Prioritize ABC"

"Increase XYZ"

I find Nordic/Viking music very calming and I'm able to focus better. Basically, I'm more productive when I'm listening to such music.

Forgot to drink water? Focus loss.
Forgot to write microtasks? Focus loss.
Didn't wear trousers when it's cold? Focus loss.
Forgot to meditate? Focus loss.
Forgot to think about how I feel? Focus loss.
Forgot to eat? Focus loss.
Didn't exercise? Focus loss.
Assumed that little pain in my ribs is cancer? Focus loss.
Got annoyed by something my boss said? Focus loss.
Did I forget to listen to instrumental music instead of stand up comedy? Focus loss.
Can't find instrumental music that I like and didn't listen too many times? Focus loss.
Did I sleep too little? Focus loss.

Everything is a pitfall. I am a goddamn house of cards.

God damn it ADHD. I can't seem to focus on what I actually want to learn.

My area of focus is switching between so many areas of focus without actually having the time to do so. Why is a day only 24 hours long :(

Fucking Ballmer peak and blowing by it 9 times out of 10. But that every once in a while when you hit it. Oh it’s real. So real. Focus and problem solving rolled into one.

Focus on C++ coding with DS and Algorithms.

My dev area of focus: Desktop tools/applications
Why: Because I hate web development

After I took some time off from work, I decided to accept the offer for maintenance of two projects. Those are from two old clients, so I think I will not stress too much, since I know what to expect most of the time.

The issue is, sometimes I have a hard time to keep concentration. In the past, I could work for 3h straight, totally focused, would pause for 20min for stretch, and then come back to work. Now I can only focus for 30min or 1h, and after a pause, it's hard to concentrate again.

There is a lot going on in my life right now, and I know the worry is probably distracting me. I'm trying to listen instrumental music, drinking coffee... But that's not enough. Somebody has any tip?

Lead developer about Project X:

“Focus on responsiveness. That will probably take you the rest of the week”

The next day:

“Focus on functionality Y”

MAKE UP THAT MIND FFS?!

When coding, what percentage of your time is spent fluently typing your code vs thinking about what you're coding?

My headphones 🎧 died two days ago and I can't focus on work since then. Why do they have to be so fragile?

Stop TV and fucking focus

Does anyone else have really bad focus issues? when I'm supposed to be studying I'll be able to focus for about 10 minutes maximum before I end up on my phone or Getting distracted on YouTube

My eyes can't focus on the text with the pretty avatars next to it now!

Focus stealing - it winds me up more than is probably reasonable.

I'm there, typing away in my text entry UI widget of choice, purposefully entering text to do some thing as expediently as possible and then... oh, well I'm not any more, am I?

No, because some other window has decided that it needs the keyboard focus for usually no reason whatsoever, other than poor programming manners. Sometimes the same app will keep stealing the focus - oi, mate, I was typing over here? Could you not get the current focus and see that I'm busy?

This happens in chrome's dev tools _a lot_ but dev tools needs a rant all of its own.

When somebody says they are going to call me, I always fear this will destroy my flow and focus for the rest of the day.

when all else fails, i cast infinite focus using my amulet of loudmusic and scroll of redbull

Area of focus: Between my earphones
Cause: Plays metal

The skill of being about to sit still and get stuff done. I can't focus for the life of me.

Set all my editors to autosave when they loose focus ~

Makes me go nuts when working on other machines :/

searching on how to do something on your project. a couple of hours later, you ended up watching on how the universe was born and theories of aliens .. #researchGoneTooFar

When you focus on adding functionality and the UI is barely usable.

MUST STAY FOCUSED !!
(so many cool things to learn makes it a bit difficult :) )

When your deep focus music makes you sleepy

I can't believe I've missed out on Firefox Focus for so long. I'm a Chromium guy, but Focus beats rounds on Chrome mobile in terms of speed and browsing experience.

Today, IT director blocked off a part of Friday afternoon on everyone's calendar as "focus time." WTF.

Be able to shutdown my hearing completely so that i could focus on my thoughts.

Area of focus: R

Why: The charts looks so pretty. Good enough, I'll learn R.

My main development focus is getting paid. Oh and front-end dev stuff.

why do java developers wear glasses?

because their ciliary muscles can't contract to focus light on the retina

anyone here has experience coding high before? can you even focus. 😂 Just really curious, please share.

Due to ramadhan, I can't focus on work. Am dearly missing my morning and afternoon coffee.

Just fuck off and leave me alone! I can't focus on a thousand projects at the same fucking time!

Ok, so I need some clarity from you good folk, please.

My lead developer is also my main mentor, as I am still very much a junior. He carved out most of his career in PHP, but due to his curious/hands-on personality, he has become proficient with Golang, Docker, Javascript, HTML/CSS.

We have had a number of chats about what I am best focusing on, both personally and related to work, and he makes quite a compelling case for the "learn as many things as possible; this is what makes you truly valuable" school of thought. Trouble is, this is in direct contrast to what I was taught by my previously esteemed mentor, Gordon Zhu from watchandcode.com. "Watch and Code is about the core skills that all great developers possess. These skills are incredibly important but sound boring and forgettable. They’re things like reading code, consistency and style, debugging, refactoring, and test-driven development. If I could distill Watch and Code to one skill, it would be the ability to take any codebase and rip it apart. And the most important component of that ability is being able to read code."

As you can see, Gordon always emphasised language neutrality, mastering the fundamentals, and going deep rather than wide. He has a ruthlessly high barrier of entry for learning new skills, which is basically "learn something when you have no other option but to learn it".

His approach served me well for my deep dive into Javascript, my first language. It is still the one I know the best and enjoy using the most, despite having written programs in PHP, Ruby, Golang and C# since then. I have picked up quite a lot about different build pipelines, development environments and general web development as a result of exposure to these other things, so it isn't a waste of time.

But I am starting to go a bit mad. I focus almost exclusively on quite data intensive UI development with Vue.js in my day job, although there is an expectation I will help with porting an app to .NET Core 3 in a few months. .NET is rather huge from what I have seen so far, and I am seriously craving a sense of focus. My intuition says I am happiest on the front end, and that focusing on becoming a skilled Javascript engineer is where I will get the biggest returns in mastery, pay and also LIFE BALANCE/WELLBEING...

Any thoughts, people? I would be interested to hear peoples experiences regarding depth vs breadth when it comes to the real world.

So many options in web development. Don't know what to learn next or focus on. Mean stack or Asp .net or JavaEE?

Stop changing maps and focus on THE map -- de_dust

Maybe focus on my health and fitness for once.

Feels like my body(?) got slower while head's where it's at
I can still chalk out a project's overview, divisions, core-code/logic but actually working on it beyond a point I go "urghhhhhhhhhhhh"

even making model-classes is a chore.. I wonder if that's a sign of something worse to come. Maybe I should go to the gym to improve focus or something T__T

My area of focus is to focus.

I get distracted way too easily, I often think I would get far more done if I could stay focused for a longer period.

December, the last month of year. I made big plans to finish 2016 with a perfect ending.

Few places to travel, startup, freelancing and many more...

But first I need to pass my exams which are not based on programming. 😕😑 I am just not able to concentrate, my PC looks at me and I look at her. But trying to focus on the study. 😕

Focus on functionality first then appearances later

Can someone help me how to focus for 6 straight hours/day until the end of this month? Got 1 last exam left till i graduate with comp. science degree. I have to study databases but only theory. And i fucking hate reading text. I hate theory. I like solving problems analytically and theory is my weakness.

I read theory shit for a few mins and then distract myself with mobile games and tiktok for a few hours... I cant concentrate studying this shit...

How do i forcefully focus.

Can someone suggest me the best app that actually works to help me focus or something? Or some yt sound waves music?

I see here so much motivation in work you are doing and i am here standing without any inspiration, motivation in learning things, i can't stay focus more than several minutes reading interesting topic. I use to simulate and create different network, doing great stuff (i am or maybe was addict for networking) How you guy/ girls can do it? Some tips would be awesome.

one big screen > two screens side-by-side

Only me? Think it’s easier to focus.

I'm so excited about something(can't tell you guys yet) but can't talk about it at work. And now I lost all my focus

When you have to focus but your boss tells you he has loads of new ideas

Usually I play some focus music, say "let's do this!" to my devduck (Dave), and start working on stuff. Oh, and lots of coffee.

What's your coding drink?

Personally: Anise or thyme tea or a large Cappucino because you know this brain need some premium fuel to work 😂

Do you have a routine? I work from home everyday since quarantine and I don't think we are going back to the office.

I would like to be more productive, not in the sense of forcing myself to do more job and add more stress, no one is complaining about the time it takes me to finish tasks.

I'm looking for a way to scatter my working hours so I have chunks of focus and chunks of breaks in which I go out for a walk or something instead of a big chunk of focus mixed with distraction. I'm behaving as if it were a "9-5 job" when it is actually "8 hours per day" with flexible schedule.

!rant - developers figured out flipkart should focus web instead of mobile-only, before the company changed strategy ???

I'm really surprised at how when I type in a domain without the protocol it automatically goes to http in this 'privacy' browser (firefox focus)

Spend your time on devRant of course!
(Now get back to work and try some focus music;)

Actually, the office. Because it's a space exclusively for working.

I did home office for quite a while and still do so from time to time but i get distracted and/or lazy too easily to really get something done at home.

In the office, I have to be focused and so I am for 8+ hrs.

Unpopular opinion: 9to5 is great.

Want to end a game in unity - need to focus only on one or two projects at the same time

Founding an international organisation to teach code in organised focus groups with little or no fees, with various paths

Any other devs with PTSD here? Since the trauma I find it hard to focus on programming. Before the trauma I would code on the job, get home and code personal projects for fun. After the trauma I can barely focus on programming for work.
How do you focus?

Programmer seems like an insufficient job title: translator for high-level languages with focus on user meditation seems more like it.

I'm an alcoholic and a programmer. I don't drink when I'm programming so that I can focus. Programming is therefore good for my health.

My dev area of focus is Stack overflowing. When you develop orient to errors, stack overflow is the best way to progress.

!Question

Is it better to try out a lot of languages to learn, or focus directly on one for web development?

Listening to music and watching movies helps me to focus. But I never found a way to solve my procrastination problem...

focus is needed because we are the most distracted generation in history!

I was assigned a task to troubleshoot some buggy code. I am a developer and I don’t know how to get started. Does anyone else experience this kind of anxiety? Where you’re asked to apply your skills and suddenly your brain just shuts down and you feel like you know exactly nothing? I’m older than most coders in my field. Onset of some kind of brain disorder?

idk why, but why focus so much on internal stuff that never will be public...this is also my favorite quote

Last night I talked to a friend I hadn't heard from in a while. She visited the city I'm in two years back with her boyfriend. She had a brain injury recently. Her boyfriend and her broke up. She doesn't feel anything towards anyone anymore. She asked me if I knew anyone who had committed suicide. I named all of three of them, and two overdoses which may have been intentional. I will never forget them. She asked a lot of questions about suicide.

I can't seem to focus on coding while working from home. Any tips?

To the bright engineer who considered it a good idea to open Zoom's toast popups in their own windows without tagging them appropriately as frameless short-lived managed popups:

Ride a hedgehog to work, you lazy fuck.

What do people feel about remote work?
I got into my current work about 8 months and we all were remote working.

In 8 months, we met in person several times and worked together at one place for a week or two.

We have never overcome the feeling of a disconnect when we work remotely. There's less focus and less clarity on things to do.

Is this common? How do people be focused and productive in remote work?

Also how do people communicate effectively?

After a 3 month hiatus to focus on uni work, I'm back! I've missed you pernicious programmers!

How much minutiae about CSS do I need to know for hiring purposes?

Should I focus on grid or flex?

Should I focus on mediaquerys before css grid?

What are some things I can safely ignore while studying frontend?

So been working with the COSMOS framework and I have litteraly spent more time reworking the CLI to be so much more functional... Still haven't implemented a simple echo command but hey... Shit looks pretty that's all that matters... Right... Right?

Dear DevRant: You should really, really make the textboxes get the focus when they appear, when adding a comment or a rant...

(or is it just me?)

I have hard time focusing at all. I can't even focus 100% when I am driving my bike. My mind tend to go other issues or thoughts when I am doing anything in my life.

Any tip to improve my focus on the current task.

Honestly I think you'll run out of new focus questions.

I'd be ok with seeing something different like current trending tags.

My focus is AI but the only thing most people can respond to that is #Skynet smh 😑😑 like please tell me again about robots taking over

How do you keep a private life? I'm trying to focus on improving myself and here, Facebook(friends...) etc comes by -_- I'm really mad at myself.

How long (what % of day) are you fully focused (contentrated) on programming on average per day? How many hours is your work day? The longer the hours, the harder to stay focused we probably can agree. How are you doing in carreer - good or not, can tell as detailed as you might want to share.

Focus on my love, computer vision :-*
(Yes, with OpenCV)

Area of focus?
Whatever the client currently needs.
Because, who has time to specialize when there are bills to pay?

I can't seem to focus on my work at all today -_- my server model isn't working and I haven't even started anything else...Any tips on helping me focus?

My dev area of focus is more like drinking coffee and devRant. Sometimes a lil bit of backend dev.

Have you guys used modafinil to stay focus for long hours be it coding or studying. I worked 15 hours none stop

Can't focus on work because Ethereum and litecoin are on the rise. Dreaming of driving lambos on the moon 😅

Fitting all of my open apps onto three monitors. I think maybe six monitors will hold them all. Ironically, staying focused is also something I struggle with. 🤦‍♂️😅

"Hey, just scheduling in some time for a catch-up today, looks like you've just got focus time so I've scheduled it then"

"Wait, why did you decline my invite?!"

Because I actually need time to focus and do my job, and spending an hour talking to your sorry arse about something irrelevant doesn't trump time I need to focus? Bleh. People.

Ability to focus despite colleagues, noises, notifications, etc.

Focus only on the absolutely necessary...

How rotten and half bitten is this most valuable Apple? See that they get quite some bashing for their latest Catalina release. And they deserve every portion of it, I think.

Honestly, when I saw our testers going through the different betas, which hardly installed and on which our software kept behaving differently, nevertheless they pushed their Golden Master and released. Didn't seem a good idea.

Currently I had to update to Catalina to check some small broken feature of ours and now the active window keeps on losing focus every few minutes. Have to grab the mouse and click there again to continue working. Really fucking annoying. Hope I can track it down some time.. or trash my iMac.

Alrighty - which one of you broke :focus-visible?!?

Atlassian! How am I supposed to "focus" on anything when Jira keeps distracting me with uncalled-for popups saying "Focus on building...etc."

Is interview preparation and competitive programming the same thing? If they are different which one should one focus on?
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I usually have some kind of ambient music running in the background like Noisli...Helps me focus better...

Firefox created Firefox Focus & Forcing facebook to donate there 😂😂🐸🐸

Ever tried programming while having serious hayfever..? Welcome to my life today :')

Can't. F***ing. Focus.

I work on multiple projects simultaneously, so I switch my focus on another project temporarily

Slack, allows me too post funny images to my team when i can't focus, and make sure they loose their focus aswell...

What type of music genre helps you focus on your coding routine?

I cannot focus on exams and my coding because of one person.

how to regain my focus.

help me.

Looking for music to help focus. And finding which types work best to listen to.

Bast way to quickly recover focus and get to work after waking up early ?

"We want :focus styles removed everywhere in our intranet because we don't like it"
- Very-Big-Company, multiple times "Nielsen Best Intranet"

Dribbling a basketball in the office??? Seriously? How to focus 101.

3webcam with different focus
OpenCV3

Focus?

I'm the definition of what a dev without focus looks like xD

So full stack counts as one?

What are your tips/tricks for staying up and alert?

Started a new QA job. 3-11am because the client is in another time zone. I'm up but staying up and alert is a challenge. I might need better coffee. Still falling asleep

In my free time I'm developing a small init system with focus on parallel initialization.

It would be great if firefox focus provide support to PWA like chrome does

Does anyone else feel like their brains aren't working, like they cant focus on anything and this has been going on for more than a week now?

I know there are things to do. I have gone through huge pain created github issues for those things but my brain just seems to reject the idea that it can solve those issues. Just feels like playing a game or just killing time would be best!

Needless to say I hate it.

Happens/happening with others?

If you enjoy coding at coffee shops, remember to wear headphones. Not only will it help you focus, it'll also block out John Mayer.