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Oh I built one of those with Rust and FLTK: https://six-five-six-four.com/git/reactor/annoying_journal

I figured if it works for software profiling it oughta work for people. And I set the interval to some Golden Ratio thing like 37 minutes, with the hopes that it wouldn't log the same times every day, but also wouldn't be purely random.




Wait, so how well did it work?


I don't remember any big insights except that I'm pretty bad at estimates.

Everything that feels like a "half-day" task took an entire day or two. I would look back on every feature and think, "No way was I working on that for X days straight?"

Basically nothing takes less than half a day.


Iā€™m going to claim that lesson alone made it a success

Small wins are still wins




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