Ask HN: What do developers do on Friday so they can be productive on Monday?
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Leave work early and have a weekend. No better way to have a productive Monday
One thing you don't do is release changes to production in a hurry on Friday afternoon. Often that leads to working through the weekend thus not being refreshed on Monday.
That said, on Fridays I like to:
- make sure I've listed out all the things I need to talk to people about next week
- get to inbox zero
- clean up my personal to-do list
- update my calendar to make sure I've blocked off time for development work next week
- push all local work to the remote repository
- take notes on next steps/blockers for my current project/task
For an individual contributor, the last one is the most important. The weekend is the most massive context switch you can have short of a vacation, and it'll take you much longer to get back in the zone if you have to re-excavate the various layers of things you need to do in order to do the things that will let you do the things to fix the bug/implement the feature.
Pro tip: do the same before you go home every night, too, and save yourself a headache in the morning.