How to use short breaks at work effectively for self-development?

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Published on 2011-11-15T09:59:46Z Indexed on 2011/11/15 10:12 UTC
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At the moment my daily work as a developer requires me to have short 10-20 min breaks after every 2-3 hours. It would be nice if I could use those effectively to improve my expertise in programming or CS in general.

I tried several things:

Reading jokes online gets boring very soon.
Trying to solve some (even the most simple) tasks from different code contests requires more time, as long as I have some idea of an algorithm the time is over.
Reading a randomly picked Wikipedia-article about Computer Science: depending upon the article sometimes it requires more time and is not an easy reading for a break.

So, I ended up reading StackOverflow questions and answers with most votes: that is entertaining and educative.

Do you have any other suggestions?

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