That's funny I was hoping by posting the article here I could get better tips from HN members about how to more efficiently cram in hacking time into my schedul

That's funny I was hoping by posting the article here I could get better tips from HN members about how to more efficiently cram in hacking time into my schedule. I'll certainly continue posting along this topic line as I uncover more tips that work for me. I need to monitor hard metrics for application development (commits) while trying out different time saver tricks.