![]() That doze feeling will soon pass.Ī hot, humid or stuffy atmosphere is a sure-fire way to send yourself to sleep. If you do start to feel like you can’t keep your eyes open then stand up, walk around, perhaps even go outside for a short stroll get some fresh air and smoke a cigarette or whatever. Many people recommend power naps as a quick way of refreshing yourself, however I find they often have the opposite effect - either you wake up an hour later feeling groggy and just as tired as before, except you’ve wasted an hour or, your body takes over and you end up sleeping for three or four hours, at which point you’d have been better off just going to bed. It’ll also make you feel gradually more nauseous over time, so eat decent food. There’s no denying the instant gratification of a sugar-induced energy rush, but it doesn’t last, and doesn’t keep you going. What you don’t want to do is spend the whole day or night snacking on chips, chocolate and donuts (mmm … donuts), however tempting that may be. If you want to be firing on as many cylinders as possible, you need to eat decent regular meals, and drink plenty of fluids like water and fruit juice (as well as all that coffee!). ![]() ![]() Good food is the gasoline that makes your engine go, and just as low-grade fuel gives diminished performance from your car, so poor food gives poor performance from your body and your brain. The risk of course is that caffeine addiction is recursive - it calls itself in a self-sustaining loop: you drink coffee to stay awake, but that stops you from sleeping properly so the next day you’re tired, so you drink coffee to stay awake, but that … and so on! Just like you do not talk about Fight Club, this tip is significant enough to mention twice. We have one here at SitePoint HQ, and it gets well used, for totes. ![]() Perhaps you could even consider investing in a real coffee machine. Proper filter coffee is the strongest, and the nicest, but instant coffee still works though personally I can’t stand instant coffee and would rather drink tea if real coffee isn’t available. Caffeine is a stimulant drug, and coffee has it in abundance, far more so than tea or cola. ![]() I can only speak from personal experience, but with that proviso, I present this short list of tips I use to cope with sleep deprivation.Īlthough the short-term buzz you get from coffee is largely psychosomatic, the effect over several hours is undeniable. Makes me wonder how much of the sum output of our industry happens in the middle of the night, and what is it that sustains us through those wee small hours? Is it fueled by the pure nervous energy of obsessive compulsion, or are there concrete things you can do to boost your performance beyond the physical impulse to sleep?įor me, it’s both - part obsessiveness, and part practical routine - it’s simply quieter in the middle of the night, with no phone calls and fewer distractions, and that really helps me to stay focused.īut there are also a number of simple, practical things I do to help me stay on form. We beaver away long into the night, building the next big web app, trying to meet client deadlines, or fiddling with some new technique or technology that has us all excited. It’s been my observation that we web developers are a fairly nocturnal bunch. ![]()
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