Anyone get the <Tetris Effect> with programming? I find that after prolonged, sleep-deprived, caffei...

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[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Anyone get the Tetris Effect with programming? I find that after prolonged, sleep-deprived, caffeine-fueled sessions of programming, my brain tries to fit everything into inheritance hierarchies, exception handlers, and coroutine calls! It's hard to describe, but everything starts to resemble code, and that's when I know that I really need to sleep

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

A quick Google search shows very similar experiences!

• “spinning incoherently, thinking in terms of programming constructs”

• “parsing other people as structs”

• “correlating politics and social structures with architectural problems in software”

i will see something like my cat, and my brain will try to piece together what the mov, jmp, push, pop, add, etc… commands are before i realize that that dumb and impossible

[andylamax]

hahahahahahaha, I am laughing but this ain't funny 🤣

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Too relatable?

[andylamax]

Veeeery!!!!!

[darkmoon_uk]

Maybe not quite the same thing but last night, at home, I lifted down a clear acrylic panel that sits at the base of a ceiling light-tunnel, to clean up an accumulation of spider webs, dead spiders and moths. As I eased the panel down, the sticky spider webs all stretched out in every criss-cross way between the panel and frame. This caused many random bits of detritus and insect bodies, to become suspended - seemingly in mid-air - in quite a visually striking way. My wife and kids, watching below, slightly recoiled at the mess of it all but I gleefully cried "A 3D force-directed node graph layout!". Got a look.

[darkmoon_uk]

...ok maybe it is the same thing 🙃

[louiscad]

Is caffeine to blame? Sleep deprivation is unfortunately familiar, but I drink zero coffee, and I don't think I'm experiencing that Tetris effect.