{"id":1283,"date":"2008-08-11T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T22:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2009-01-25T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T18:50:29","slug":"music-to-code-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/11\/music-to-code-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Code By"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a post over at Coding Horror<\/a> today about “Music to (Not) Code By<\/a>,” and it got me thinking about the music I code by – which, let me just say, is not anything like the music mentioned in Jeff’s article!<\/p>\n

There’s always been a sort of unspoken rule with me that the best music to write code by is some sort of techno-electronica type music – preferrably without lyrics. I wrote one of my earliest commercial programs almost entirely to the sounds of Digitally Imported’s<\/a> “Chillout – Ambient Psy<\/a>” SHOUTcast<\/a> station.<\/p>\n

Lately I’ve changed over to game music, thanks to the fine folks at Radio GOSU (The Gamers of Oklahoma State University)<\/a>. Of course, some people will argue there is little distinction between “game music” and “chillout techno.” But that’s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

The fact is, there’s just something… “right” about having that sort of music on in the background while pooring over thousands of lines of code, or while designing a totally new User Interface for your program. It’s not quite white noise, and it’s generally up-beat enough to keep you “in the groove.” And staying “in the groove” is, of course, very important for programmers – and any other sort of knowledge worker, in fact.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s the upbeat nature of the music, or the tempo, but I just find it much easier to program when listening to that kind of music.<\/p>\n

So I guess the question now is… what sort of music do YOU listen to while you work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a post over at Coding Horror today about “Music to (Not) Code By,” and it got me thinking about the music I code by – which, let me just say, is not anything like the music mentioned in Jeff’s article! There’s always been a sort of unspoken rule with me that the best… Continue reading Music to Code By<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200],"tags":[129,107],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-music","tag-programming","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-kH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2861,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/11\/05\/i-love-living-in-the-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":1283,"position":0},"title":"I Love Living in the Future","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"We are living in the future, and it is awesome!","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Internet","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/internet-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"netbook + wifi + streaming radio + home stereo = awesome","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3506\/4077156843_c653bc97a5.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":132,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/03\/02\/something-awful\/","url_meta":{"origin":1283,"position":1},"title":"Something… awful","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Not really something \"awful,\" but... 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