Coding music
Recently I’ve been working on a large-scale modernisation project, reworking old table-layouts and inline styles into nice, clean modern CSS and XHTML.
For this sort of head-down coding work I’ll stick the headphones on and fire up iTunes – I find that anything fast works for me when I’m coding, so lately I’ve been listening to a lot of thrash metal and drum’n’bass, with a bit of hard house thrown in from time to time.
Last.fm is a great help in this respect, especially with their new and much improved downloadable player – just pick a genre or artist and it creates an instant radio station playing non-stop similar music. Check out my last.fm dashboard to see what I’m listening to at the moment.
What do you like to listen to when you’re churning out code?
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- Matthew Pennell
- 701 days ago
- I tried classical but I found it demanded too much attention…
- #2
- Jonathan Snook
- 701 days ago
- Lots of drum&bass for me, normally. I don’t mind minimal vocals. If I’m doing something a little more creative, I like to mix it up with pop/rock/punk/etc. I try for more upbeat stuff.
- #3
- Matthew Anderson
- 701 days ago
- Same as Snook here. I tend to stick with Electronic/Dance. If I get stuck though, I’ll turn on my ‘favorites’ playlist which basically runs the gamut.
- #4
- Ilya
- 695 days ago
- I can listen to anything, as long as I know it well. New music—music that I haven’t heard before—tends to distract me.
- #6
- doyjay
- 695 days ago
- My coding music varies greatly. If I’m concentrating on getting something built and out of the way, it tends to be fast-paced stuff over headphones… Dream Theater, other mod-prog, dancey stuff… Experiments or code-for-fun is whatever is on I guess.
Designing music tends to be more relaxed, although that isn’t really reflected by my latest blog design. And, yes, occasionally the Ozrics features in there. - #7
Trance, Hard Trance, Hard House and Drum’n’Bass generally do the trick.
Having said that, I often opt for classical, jazz or guitar blues.