Technically I spend time waiting for tests to run rather than for compilation, but same problem. It's a good time for a trip to the restroom or to refresh your

Technically I spend time waiting for tests to run rather than for compilation, but same problem. It's a good time for a trip to the restroom or to refresh your beverage, but you can't do that every 5 min. I'll often deal with email (our issue tracker sends email for comments, so there's usually something to deal with there) or catch up on slack. There's always something that needs code review. I'll check some monitoring dashboards for servers I'm responsible for. And I have project management responsibilities along with the code-related ones, so I can take care of some of that. Of course, all of those other than the first require significant context switching, but so does reading HN.