That's exactly what I do. I like programming for the ATTiny85 a lot. I basically have my usbtiny programmer always connected to the computer and in a different

That's exactly what I do. I like programming for the ATTiny85 a lot. I basically have my usbtiny programmer always connected to the computer and in a different breadboard the project I am actually working with. Then a simple Makefile takes care of the rest. It's a bit tedious to have to mount and unmount the chip every time, but it's ok. FWIW, this is my Makefile: CC=avr-gcc FLAGS=-w -Os -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -Wl,--gc-sections -mmcu=attiny85 OBJCOPY=avr-objcopy compile: $(CC) $(FLAGS) main.c -o main.elf main.hex: compile $(OBJCOPY) -j .text -j .data -O ihex main.elf main.hex upload: main.hex avrdude -v -pattiny85 -cusbtiny -Uflash:w:main.hex clean: rm -r main.elf rm -r main.hex