Ask HN: How do you deal with long compile times?
What do you spend your time on while something is building for an hour or more?
I end up doing reviews and triaging issues, but of course 30 minutes or longer to wait on a compile breaks focus. Writing documentation of the changes that were made, Writing test cases for the code that I just added, Writing a detailed commit message for the changes... ...and trying to figure out if the compile time can be reduced! Focus is not usually the problem here. It's actually context-switch. Avoid any task that has high context-switch cost. Go for a walk.