[pmarreck]

You need to set reminders to take a break once an hour, walk around, stare off into the distance for 5 minutes. This article is from 2012 but mentioned 5 of them: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-apps-to...

I also noticed this was a side benefit of having a good test suite- if your test is valid, thorough, and passing, then you don't have to remember as much mental-model (because it's encoded in the suite), which would normally discourage you from getting up at all

[koverda]

I actually built something like this for myself when I was learning javascript. It's buggy, but for the most part it works. http://okpeet.com/breaktimer/ if anyone wants to take a look.

[mcjiggerlog]

Heh, I also made a chrome extension for the same thing and with the same name! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/break-timer/hklkdb...

[koverda]

nice! i'll try it out. solid name

[mcjiggerlog]

It's all open source - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer

I haven't had much time to work on it for a while. Contributions are very welcome!

[carc1n0gen]

I made myself a pebble app to do this that I never ended up publishing. Sadly I no longer have the code nor my pebble.