Like many others, I enjoy coding during the night much more than during the day, and I always end up doing it at home for the lack of a better venue.<p>Are there any cool places I'm missing out on?
For my day job I work for a university, and I live two blocks away.<p>Maybe one night or so a week, after dinner and the kid's put to bed I will head back up to the campus library and work.<p>They're open until 3am, which is later than I can afford to stay up these days. But it means I can still get 3 or 4 hours of uninterrupted work done even if I get there at 9:00 PM.<p>After so many years spent in school, I have been conditioned that when I enter a library my brain goes into "head down and get to work" mode. So it's a great place for me to get things done.
I'm interested in finding such places in Portland as well. I know we have a few hackerspaces, but I've heard mixed reviews on their locations/[most] active hours/the type of crowds that mingle there. If anyone has any suggestions for web folk/designers, let me know.
I suppose it depends where you are. In Washington DC (where I live) there is a DC Nightowls group (<a href="http://nightowls.dcacm.org" rel="nofollow">http://nightowls.dcacm.org</a>) which meet up at night for people who want to work. It's a nice community of people. Maybe your city has something similar? Or you could always start one.<p>I also work late at my coworking space, sometimes there are other people, sometimes there aren't. I've definitely scheduled late night work sessions with fellow coders there though.
Well that depends a whole lot on where you live. Between Yokohama and NYC, I work both from home or any number of 24hr cafes. Sometimes, if I feel like working outside I'll just drag a chair or mat out to the beach for a few hours of breezy keyboard clapping.
I live nowhere near any cool places to code unfortunately, as I live in a little village 25 miles outside of Glasgow, Scotland.
I code in my living room, beside the 50" plasma and all the satellite TV channels :)