--- title: Coding at Night | daily.dev description: Coding at night has been very effective for me Ohagorom Onyinyechukwu J. The brain works best when it's late at night/really early in the morning, the brain... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-at-night-g0qetaaj9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Coding at Night | daily.dev og:description: Coding at night has been very effective for me Ohagorom Onyinyechukwu J. The brain works best when it's late at night/really early in the morning, the brain... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-at-night-g0qetaaj9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/G0QETAAJ9.png og:image:alt: Coding at Night og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coding at Night **[Better Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/btrprog)** · 3 min read · 40 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Coding at night has been very effective for me Ohagorom Onyinyechukwu J. The brain works best when it's late at night/really early in the morning, the brain gets tired enough that it can only focus on one task, not on multiple tasks. There’s nothing better you can do than become a programmer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@renis** · 2 upvotes > Es cierto.. Aunque el trabajo involucra trabajar de dia, considero que soy mas productivo durante la noche.. Ya que como bien fue dicho.. > "No tienes que lidiar con la gente. Porque estan dormidos" XD **@dubesar** · 2 upvotes > Will definitely change the minds of many!! **@arklev** · 2 upvotes > Personally i can agree that i am doing much better at night. **@baratafeyo** · 1 upvotes > I liked this post. I have never been a night owl and I like to sleep well so I think that the main drawback of coding at night would be that the brightness of the screen alters the production of your hormones especially the ones responsible for sleep like melatonin. With less production of these hormones at night, your biological cycle gets altered and that can have bad effects on your organism but maybe it's a matter of habit. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/coding-at-night-g0qetaaj9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Coding at Night","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/coding-at-night-g0qetaaj9","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/coding-at-night-g0qetaaj9"},"datePublished":"2020-10-27T14:36:32.351Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Coding at night has been very effective for me Ohagorom Onyinyechukwu J. 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I have never been a night owl and I like to sleep well so I think that the main drawback of coding at night would be that the brightness of the screen alters the production of your hormones especially the ones responsible for sleep like melatonin. With less production of these hormones at night, your biological cycle gets altered and that can have bad effects on your organism but maybe it’s a matter of habit.","datePublished":"2020-11-05T09:39:13.331Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/G0QETAAJ9#c-DmXb6Cxim","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Inês Borges","url":"https://daily.dev/baratafeyo","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GjeUZeuRgimELu7WebBIxzRv7DnXjD8BFk_aHp_gg=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```