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Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

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This is pretty fun. Did you have any concern about privacy of her sessions? Thanks for the post and conclusions.

I ended up spending an embarrassing amount of time on the post processing because I didn't spend enough time on setup ahead of time :) I used https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger to take screenshots. I meant to have it take a screenshot of my top monitor only, and do anything sensitive on my laptop screen, but I didn't configure it correctly, and wound up with screenshots of my active window only, so I had to d…

That's a lot of post production work. :) I'd be embarrassed someone might see I clicked through a TMZ link or something.

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Ok, this is too epic to keep putting off! I'm hereby precommitting to a maniac weekend starting tomorrow! I'll reply here with a link to the time-lapse on Monday...

What exactly is your definition of "weekend" here? If you're counting hours we have to know which hours to hold you accountable for!

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Ok, this is too epic to keep putting off! I'm hereby precommitting to a maniac weekend starting tomorrow! I'll reply here with a link to the time-lapse on Monday...

What exactly is your definition of "weekend" here? If you're counting hours we have to know which hours to hold you accountable for!

Let's say 5pm Friday to 9am Monday?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ended up spending an embarrassing amount of time on the post processing because I didn't spend enough time on setup ahead of time :) I used https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger to take screenshots. I meant to have it take a screenshot of my top monitor only, and do anything sensitive on my laptop screen, but I didn't configure it correctly, and wound up with screenshots of my active window only, so I had to d…

That's a lot of post production work. :) I'd be embarrassed someone might see I clicked through a TMZ link or something.

You probably wouldn't want to even click the TMZ link in the first place when you knew you were making the video, since the post-production is so onerous. It's like a precommitment that you're not going to get distracted. In fact, when I did my maniac week, I precommitted to not doing any post-processing, and it helped me focus a lot. I would think, "hmm, I wonder what the strongest dog is!" but then realize I couldn't slack off on video, so I wouldn't even Google it like normal.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly is your definition of "weekend" here? If you're counting hours we have to know which hours to hold you accountable for!

Let's say 5pm Friday to 9am Monday?

A potential of a 64-hour work-weekend? deal!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's say 5pm Friday to 9am Monday?

A potential of a 64-hour work-weekend? deal!

A more reasonable definition might be "5pm Friday till whenever you go to sleep Sunday night" but this is not about being reasonable (quite the opposite). I have no particular attachment to my sleep schedule so I'm hoping I'll be on a roll Sunday night and push straight through to 9am Monday and then collapse.
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