Yes, the best time to be a programmer. I remember being several hours doing productive programming. Nowadays you cannot spend a few minutes without having to search for some information that is not available locally.
Is it possible that the information you need is available locally via interactive help functionality, but the attention harvesting complex that is the modern web has tricked you into habitually reaching for a browser when calling the help function or reading the code would do?
The overwhelming majority of the time it's not available offline. It's even got me like "Welcome to the hidden offline documentation. Stand by while we download it... <error downloading from server>".
everytime i code i feel like i need to complete side quests. you find one problem and the solution online requires to solve another 2 problems and so on. add to that the fact that our brain can't help and get distracted, by the time you finish the side quests you need time to remember what brought you there in the first place.
What? You are much more likely today to have shorter interruptions to productivity because it's so much quicker to search Google or whatever for answers than to get up from your desk and ask the office greybeard or consult paper books or worst case have to actually fiddle around until you just figure out some possibly undocumented behavior in some library you're trying to use.
If you were actually a professional programmer in pre-internet days (as I was) I don't think you would have any nostalgia for it.
