I've been doing this for years. Glad to hear it works for you as well. I tend to take many short mental breaks throughout the day. I naturally came to the conclusion that that is what worked for me after my first few years as a developer. Companies seem quite happy with my work, and I feel more positive doing these little mental refreshers than simply continuing to try to solve the problem, which often resulted in staring at the screen or going down a rabbit hole :P

If anyone wants to compile stuff for it i'd look into cc65, just started using that to compile c code down to my Apple IIe, works like a charm :) Not sure if you can run any app/disk image on Minecraft's processor, but its worth looking into.