SelfControl[0] is an OS X application that lets you set up a black list. It's free, and works great for me.
Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
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Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#52You know what works well? Just write some code. I use the metaphor "paint every day" which I took from a HN comment years ago, but how does an artist get good at painting? You paint every day. How do you get stuff done? Code every day. Fix a small problem, big problem, whatever. Just take steps forward every day. It's how I got http://reme.me off the ground. I do something every day. In a couple short months I built…
I find this very condescending. Not all of us get to work on fun problems, but the work has to get done nonetheless.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#53If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. If not, then maybe you're working on the wrong thing. Let's stop treating the effect of poor work habits and deal with the cause: find something better to work on. [EDIT: I'd stay and reply to your great responses guys, but I'm not here anymore. As compelling as this discussion is, the real-time CRUD/robot interface I'm w…
Meanwhile, the real world, not everything you work on is super cool or super fun.
That's why it's called work.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#54If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. If not, then maybe you're working on the wrong thing. Let's stop treating the effect of poor work habits and deal with the cause: find something better to work on. [EDIT: I'd stay and reply to your great responses guys, but I'm not here anymore. As compelling as this discussion is, the real-time CRUD/robot interface I'm w…
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration" (Edison)
So the problem is not working on the 1%, that part is fun, interesting... is the 99% that some of us need help with.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#55This seems like it would be more of a hindrance than a help. Implementing anything to force yourself to code is a good indicator that you really don't want to code in the first place, and is just going to encourage you to write perfunctory code. It will probably also just make you more upset and contemptuous towards work in general. After all, who want's to be forced to something they don't want to do through negativ…
> Implementing anything to force yourself to code is a good indicator that you really don't want to code in the first place, and is just going to encourage you to write perfunctory code.
The work I do is very boring. I do Drupal development for a series of television stations, and I'm not happy with it. But I need this job to pay the bills, so I have to perform well. Once I start coding, I realize my job isn't the worst thing in the world, and I'll get into a good flow. Starting, though, is the hardest part. These self-controlling applications help give me the start I need and don't let me give up so easily.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#56If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. If not, then maybe you're working on the wrong thing. Let's stop treating the effect of poor work habits and deal with the cause: find something better to work on. [EDIT: I'd stay and reply to your great responses guys, but I'm not here anymore. As compelling as this discussion is, the real-time CRUD/robot interface I'm w…
This sounds like "If it was really that important, you wouldn't have forgotten it." — an untimely and unhelpful bit of smugness disguised as insight.
It's okay though — I'm sure if you had realized that, you wouldn't have posted it.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#57If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this. If not, then maybe you're working on the wrong thing. Let's stop treating the effect of poor work habits and deal with the cause: find something better to work on. [EDIT: I'd stay and reply to your great responses guys, but I'm not here anymore. As compelling as this discussion is, the real-time CRUD/robot interface I'm w…
This is poor advice. First off not everyone has the opportunity to work on something important and that they love. Sure, it's ideal and probably a goal of everyone but sometimes it takes steps to attain that goal and sometimes people sacrifice their 8-5 hours to provide for their family. Secondly, not everyone has the ability to get kickstarted each day to 100% productivity. You're very lucky if you do but I don't. I…
I agree. If I'm doing something I love and getting paid for it then it wouldn't be called work.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#58I use this: http://bumblebeesystems.dyndns.org/wastenotime/
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#59StayFocusd is currently my favorite plugin for this purpose https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/laankejkbhbdhmipfm... However, adding a rewards/gamification system is not a bad idea at all. I like StayFocusd but I end up filling my time otherwise if I don't have a hard deadline. Having goals to reach is a great incentive, enough to keep me focused without a plugin. But the plugin provides a basic physical deter…
I love StaFocusd, too. The problem is there is more browsers, than just Chrome.
Re: Show HN: Block yourself from the Internet until you write or code each day
#60I occasionally do this with my hosts file. But not right now...