Compile times of 30-60 seconds are particularly challenging: they're too short to do something else, but too long to get into a flow state.
I find music helps avoid context switching at least.
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I enjoyed this article about personal project programming, but I particularly liked this definition:
"Production code has a phone number to call when it breaks"
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I've started keeping a list of particularly interesting bugs and patches that I've worked on: https://github.com/Wilfred/interesting-code
The time that I once removed *a single closing paren* in Emacs is still my favourite.
New version of difftastic is out! In this release:
* Improved git integration
* Polished the side-by-side display, particularly on large screens
* Fixed a nasty crash