At my first job we were developing a huge enterprise app in J2EE, where clean build times were around 15 minutes. We also had tons of issues with the toolchain for which the “solution” was “mvn clean install”. So I made a small program which printed snippets of pre-recorded Maven build output in an infinite loop, and launched it on my second screen whenever I wanted some time off from coding that enterprise crap. Nobody would complain that I’m browsing Facebook or swiping in Tinder, as I was clearly waiting for the “build” to finish :)
