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Re: Productivity Blocker

#51

Post by auggierose »

I've found just using ScreenTime on macOS during the time where I need to get stuff done is very useful. It is a bit hidden, because you have to enable "Limit Adult Websites", but then you can configure sites you want to block. My list is:

ycombinator.com

guardian.co.uk

theguardian.com

nytimes.com

spiegel.de

Works wonders! It really helps for these little breaks where you automatically go to a site subconsciously. And none of these sites are useful for what I do, except HN sometimes to look up information and pointers about technical topics.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#52

Post by INTPenis »

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.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#54

Post by mattmanser »

auggierose wrote: post #51

I've found just using ScreenTime on macOS during the time where I need to get stuff done is very useful. It is a bit hidden, because you have to enable "Limit Adult Websites", but then you can configure sites you want to block. My list is: ycombinator.com guardian.co.uk theguardian.com nytimes.com spiegel.de Works wonders! It really helps for these little breaks where you automatically go to a site subconsciously. An…

Looks like you didn't actually look at the link :)

Re: Productivity Blocker

#55

Post by auggierose »

mattmanser wrote: post #54
auggierose wrote: post #51

I've found just using ScreenTime on macOS during the time where I need to get stuff done is very useful. It is a bit hidden, because you have to enable "Limit Adult Websites", but then you can configure sites you want to block. My list is: ycombinator.com guardian.co.uk theguardian.com nytimes.com spiegel.de Works wonders! It really helps for these little breaks where you automatically go to a site subconsciously. An…

Looks like you didn't actually look at the link :)

I actually did. Clicked on it once, looked at it for about 3 seconds, decided it would be a waste of my time to check it out more.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#57

Post by auggierose »

mattmanser wrote: post #54
auggierose wrote: post #51

I've found just using ScreenTime on macOS during the time where I need to get stuff done is very useful. It is a bit hidden, because you have to enable "Limit Adult Websites", but then you can configure sites you want to block. My list is: ycombinator.com guardian.co.uk theguardian.com nytimes.com spiegel.de Works wonders! It really helps for these little breaks where you automatically go to a site subconsciously. An…

Looks like you didn't actually look at the link :)

> The greatest trick that javascript ever pulled was to convince the latest generation of programmers that it was fast...

By the way, JavaScript IS quite fast. I ported some code from Swift to Typescript recently, and its runtime went down from 15 seconds to 2 seconds. It wasn't a 1-1 port because I improved things, so it is not a fair comparison, but I was very positively surprised.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#58

Post by nunodonato »

auggierose wrote: post #55
mattmanser wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like you didn't actually look at the link :)

I actually did. Clicked on it once, looked at it for about 3 seconds, decided it would be a waste of my time to check it out more.

Which means you didn't actually understand what it was about, which was the point of the comment ;)

Re: Productivity Blocker

#60

Post by auggierose »

nunodonato wrote: post #58
auggierose wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually did. Clicked on it once, looked at it for about 3 seconds, decided it would be a waste of my time to check it out more.

Which means you didn't actually understand what it was about, which was the point of the comment ;)

I don't disagree. Understanding things takes time, and most things are not worth understanding them.
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