The drawback with pomodoro in Programming is Flow - If it takes even 5 minutes to "ramp up" your brain back into the problem space, then you're throwing away 10

The drawback with pomodoro in Programming is Flow - If it takes even 5 minutes to "ramp up" your brain back into the problem space, then you're throwing away 10 minutes every half hour (and that estimate was highly optimistic) - and you're doing that deliberately. Much better to eliminate distractions, in my experience (selective site blocker, headphones with white noise or coffee noise or wordless trance, and an IDE that never stalls.)