Programmers want flow. when programming, light turns RED

Posted on 2024-12-12 I read Reducing Interruptions at Work: A Large-Scale Field Study of FlowLight and built my own FlowLight. When I first heard about this paper from the second author, Chris Corley, he said something to the effect of “the easiest way to detect if a programmer is in flow is to see if they’re typing into their programmer’s editor.” This is the approach I wanted to implement. Go…