Start a timer via the url • Hacker News Board

Re: Start a timer via the url

#31

Post by avelis » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 11:18 PM UTC

Reminds me of http://www.timer-tab.com/ although I don't think timer-tab support url instantiation.

Re: Start a timer via the url

#32

Post by achal » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 11:47 PM UTC

rythie wrote: post #10

I think it needs to be able to flash the favicon, when you have several tabs open, you can't see the title change.

If you pin the tab, Firefox and Chrome should glow the favicon on title change.

Re: Start a timer via the url

#33

Post by paul9290 » Sat, Feb 09, 2013, 1:53 AM UTC

Cool to see others doing this too!

We've (Sleep.fm) allowed users to set our online alarm clock by typing or clicking a URL(sets time & sound).

Examples...

http://sleep.fm/7am (sets alarm for 7am)

http://sleep.fm/10pmRooster (sets alarm for 10pm; sound is Rooster)

http://sleep.fm/6amWeather (sets alarm for 6am; sound is spoken weather report)

Re: Start a timer via the url

#34

Post by sturmeh » Sat, Feb 09, 2013, 8:05 AM UTC

bajsejohannes wrote: post #21

Simple and cool. How about making the URLs more human readable: alrt.io/2minutes50seconds or alrt.io/2m50s instead of alrt.io/2%20minutes%2050%20seconds The %20 makes it really hard to parse.

What like... http://steep.it/2minutes50seconds ?

Re: Start a timer via the url

#35

Post by juliangruber » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:23 AM UTC

rochoa wrote: post #22

The timeLeft -= 1000 approach is not the best one because setTimeout doesn't guarantee when the next tick is gonna happen. Just open the JS console and type: for (var i = 0; i You will block the JS execution and your next tick will happen when the loop finishes. Using new Date().getTime() should do the job. Edited for formatting.

I fixed that, thanks :)

Re: Start a timer via the url

#36

Post by juliangruber » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:25 AM UTC

the code for this site is open source: https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io

Re: Start a timer via the url

#37

Post by juliangruber » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:30 AM UTC

wesbos wrote: post #13

Great idea! Is the source anywhere? Would be cool too language processing for something like http://alrt.io/three%20hours

yes, see https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io

Patches are always welcome!

Re: Start a timer via the url

#38

Post by juliangruber » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:40 AM UTC

d23 wrote: post #4

Am I misunderstanding something? I tried starting it thusly: http://alrt.io/3%20hours%2022%20minutes Is the point not that it can handle a variety of input?

i fixed it, the parsing regex should be more stable now

Re: Start a timer via the url

#39

Post by juliangruber » Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 8:56 AM UTC

there is a progress indicator in the favicon now!