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Maybe others can sympathize with my personal experience. I'm a morning person. But mentally, I can't completely focus when there's things that I have to do later. I'm always worried about those upcoming things (responsibilities, meetings, kids, etc). By programming at night, after everything else is done, I can truly focus. Getting in the flow, I'm not tired and I'm completely absorbed by the current task. No future distractions.

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Night is also quiet and peaceful.

No one is up or going to be up, likely. People aren't outside making noise. No inbound calls, less inbound emails or chats. Less notifications across social media.

I think this is why I was most productive at anything in the morning. I would get up at 5 or 6, because I just can't sleep past six hours, and have a good two hours to myself before my wife was up or I needed to head to work.

But now I have a kid, so either he wakes up soon after I do, or I don't dive into anything but because I need to drop it when he's up.

Worth noting that we found putting our child down a little later helped with her not waking up till later.

For instance, if she went to sleep at 7.30 she'd wake up at 7.30 and so on. Might be helpful if you're looking for more time in the morning.

Or it might not be, because kids are high variance and what works for one is useless for another.

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