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If you're enjoying it well enough this is typically not a concern. I do take breaks when the program is building though. Or when I'm not feeling it. Please don't try to replace your feelings by ridiculously rigid schemes.

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That seems pretty well covered by the article though. They explicitly say work for as long or as short a time as you are feeling good about. The only thing that's particularly rigid is that you have a fixed and rigid end time for the break based on how long you worked. It feels less like replacing feelings with ridiculously rigid schemes and more like a plan to actually listen to your feelings, but also have personal accountability to return to the task. It's real easy if you're the sort of person that struggles with procrastinating on tasks to "feel" like you're ready to get back to work.

Same here: using timing for things like breaks is stressful and adds constraints, when the idea of a break is actually to get away from those

right. the time tracking needs to be automatic in some form. a small tool that tracks your working time (plenty of those to choose from, and maybe there is even one that tracks your pause time too) and then a break activity that is easy to measure.

the important part is to set things up in a way so i don't have to think about it.

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