[Tichy]

Harder in what sense, though? Both playing WoW and programming I sit perched in front of a computer, nearly motionless.

True the quests in WoW are all prepared in nice little chunks and don't require much brain power. But a lot of programming is not really hard, either. Especially for web programming there usually is a cookbook for achieving what you want.

Maybe it just needs to be chopped down into smaller chunks, too.

[tsestrich]

I think the solution is to have multiple colored lights that flash like a game show whenever you finish off a certain task. Makes it seem more important than if you had just made a little mental note of it

[dolinsky]

At my old job we had a few Ambient Orbs (https://www.myambient.com/productDetail/OrbBeaconSupportPage...) hooked up to serial ports on our PCs and had a Ruby server polling our logging db for different activities (commits to the repo, errors on live, etc...) and would change the colors on the Orbs accordingly using their developer API.