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I love that Slack is the first icon on the list :D it's kind of true though, It's probably the worst offender.
There seems to be an error in the first paragraph. Introducing productivity blocker, The first Chrome extension for blocking any website that make you productive. should the word "productive" be unproductive?
Who needs a productivity blocker if you have Microsoft Windows?
Good news! Your computer is ready for Windows 11! And how about a nice game of Solitude Candy Smackers (TM)? Have you tried the new Microsoft Edge web browser? It's not a browser, it's a WOWser!
I just died a little inside; well done :D
Something like this might actually be useful for the all-too-common productive procrastination breaks. Stuck on a hard problem? Better clean my desk. Waiting for a build? Better clean my files. Lacking momentum? Better check LinkedIn (it’s professional so it’s okay). I wonder which type of “break” kills more productivity, “fun” distraction or “productive” distraction. Anyone else?
Probably "productive" distractions, since you can do them a lot more before feeling bad and going back to work. Especially if you can silently get into the "fun" territory. I've actually had this with HN in the last days; I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content and valuable discussions [0], but with the Twitter shitshow I've come to enjoy a lot of snarky, unproductive discussions…
I feel like this is the case for a lot of productivity tools; every once in a while I find myself browsing the status-quo of the next generation of todo apps that have had far too much design work spent on their website for what it does. 9 times out of 10 it's a grift to sell a $15 / month subscription for syncing across devices and its added value is tiny compared to just using a text editor, lol.
Something like this might actually be useful for the all-too-common productive procrastination breaks. Stuck on a hard problem? Better clean my desk. Waiting for a build? Better clean my files. Lacking momentum? Better check LinkedIn (it’s professional so it’s okay). I wonder which type of “break” kills more productivity, “fun” distraction or “productive” distraction. Anyone else?
> Better check LinkedIn (it’s professional so it’s okay) I don’t have social media on my work computer except LinkedIn. I can’t tell you how many times a day I quickly open a new tab and head to LinkedIn (where I’m not even that personally active, mind you) to just get a quick hit of a distraction.
There seems to be an error in the first paragraph. Introducing productivity blocker, The first Chrome extension for blocking any website that make you productive. should the word "productive" be unproductive?
That's the joke. You can scroll down below to see the reviews talking about how unproductive they are while using the extension. But good you at least opened the link and raised the question, there a lot of people here supposing it is a blocker to be more productive.
We used to do this in the firewall at my first job. Every weekend the founder of the company would get drunk and login to servers and mess things up. So every weekend it was my job as the junior to go into our FreeBSD firewall and uncomment or update an ipfw line that blocked his IP-address.
Sure it wasn't a weird grazing ritual? A cron script would've replaced you doing that, more efficiently and reliably. When I did military service abroad, the new chefs rotating down was put on "sandwich alert" in which anyone on camp signal centers could call in the middle of the night, requesting a nice sandwich delivered. It was all fun and games, they were shortly let in on the thing and we all laughed at it after…
The problem back then in 2004-2005 was that his DSL could give him a new IP lease anytime so it couldn't really be automated away without having a dyndns script running on his computer, which would never work.
Who needs a productivity blocker if you have Microsoft Windows?
Good news! Your computer is ready for Windows 11! And how about a nice game of Solitude Candy Smackers (TM)? Have you tried the new Microsoft Edge web browser? It's not a browser, it's a WOWser!
Who needs a productivity blocker if you have Microsoft Windows?
Good news! Your computer is ready for Windows 11! And how about a nice game of Solitude Candy Smackers (TM)? Have you tried the new Microsoft Edge web browser? It's not a browser, it's a WOWser!
Narrator: It's still Chrome.Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the joke. You can scroll down below to see the reviews talking about how unproductive they are while using the extension. But good you at least opened the link and raised the question, there a lot of people here supposing it is a blocker to be more productive.
thanks, i never got to the bottom part of page.
Edit: Oh wait. It looks like i read the whole page. But didn't pay attention because I skimmed through the text and I never even looked at the icons. Not that I can recognize most of them.
I'm really not the target audience for this kind of product page...