How makers stay productive

Country music. All day. Everyday.

Many things! From rock, to rap, to indie and ambiant/shoegaze/experimental stuffs. Music is what gives me back my soul while coding (yea can be a bit dehumanizing to overthinking algorithm/interface/framework etc… especially while looooong debugging)

Reeeally depends on my mood and how much I have to concentrate.

Most common are

• (punk)rock - everyday stuff
• 90s techno / EDM - to get hyped
• classical - when I need to concentrate or learn (can't have lyrics then)
• Austropop (local pop music) - to relax

Jazz, oldies, classical or Linkin Park.

If you're interested I'm posting daily one album with a link to listen while coding on this twitter thread https://twitter.com/_JonathanBarone/status/1374736010936950787?s=20

Dub Techno or Liquid Drum and Bass without Vocals

Aaand combine all of that with Soundescape (maybe a little biased here 😉)

Ever since last week I have been listening to Makhadzi and nothing else, her recent album has been the best music to listen to in order to focus…

I listened to so much Synthwave when I code that I got annoyed having to go to youtube every time I wanted to listen to it. I built a chrome extension that can handle my playlists and open up for me in another tab.

Synthplayer <- if you wanna check it out

After watching The Queen's Gambit 👑 on Netflix, 7 episodes https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80234304 I got emotional because it reflects the journey of my life for some part of it.

This playlist is so special to me right now as I'm doing some deep focus: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0n0EGxGTqEjxFTt2Ew9uLo?si=oWNnpP1YRFGdVYiHH9V2Lw

This song was created by Carlos Rafael. https://carlosrafaelrivera.com/

✅ Intense feeling ✅ Competitive feeling ✅ Imaginary feeling ✅ Creative feeling ✅ High-Class feeling

I don't play chess (in the series), but I'm someone who loves hobbies, I became competitive and passionate about yoyoing for 20 years. Then I got passionate about so many things because I was very curious since young from art & science:

• playing yo-yo and all sort of division styles & tricks
• celestron telescope i own to see the planets
• bicycle, i cycle around my country
• printing t-shirts & started graphic design then start web designing then now learning about saas and web-development
• i learn martial arts for 7 years and play for national team for a while
• i learn to play field hockey and play for national team for a while
• i learn how to build 100 people in the community when i was 17 years old and got awarded young youth leader.
• i played in the punk rock, hardcore, metal, indie band, learn to make music, got interested in production from video recording, editing and producing videos online

I use to have an mp3 player, all my punk rock songs in there but it got stolen. Then i bought a PSP player, someone also stole my device. Then i bought apple ipod mini 1st gen i have so many audio/video files. But after many years of listening stuffs on youtube, i decided to use Spotify. Spotify you can create playlist easily and search for the song on the go via your mobile and laptop. So need wifi everywhere to listen when I'm on the go using my airpods prod riding the bus, train, cafe and other places.

Mood is something i take care of everyday, so music helps me in many ways. It gets me done little tiny things from tidy up, laundry, cooking, eating, work on laptop, making someone smile and helping people when they need help and it improves my mood.

Plugged in work has been done while listening to the LoFi Girl streams, FKA Chill Beats to Study To, for over a year now 🎧

this is for deep focus: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5JRzQdOGC7AouQr31Lz9LN?si=f042bdd2956d4071

This for those times when i need a lil something more: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/415JbSM7IOTX1RorhYcU3l?si=4d53c9ceec7245af