I tried zoxide, but at the end settled for using fzf to quickly find and enter directories:

  qcd () {
   local d
   dirs=$(fd -t d -t l --ignore-file ~/.gitignore . $@)
   d="$(echo ${dirs} | fzf +m --height=50%)"  && cd "${d}"
  }
  
  alias hd="qcd ${HOME}"

There's a built-in shortcut with fzf to change directories I think it's alt+d

thanks for that, i'll update references.

great questions!

- knob: yeah, if I were to redesign that part I would move it to the top. I had a total schedule of 4 weeks for this project, and I didn't feel confident enough to rebuild (and print prototypes) of the case when I encountered the weight problem, but that would definitely make it better

- I did fillet/chamfer (almost) every edge I believe, I also printed the final case with fuzzy skin to make it feel higher quality

- The knob was originally meant to also allow you to change the timer, so having a dial felt like the right thing to do. Didn't turn out that way, so yes three buttons might be the better UX for the menus I ended up with (and would make the device smaller)

- The shroud actually started out as a way to prevent light leaking (and then I re-printed it in white so that it would boost the LED diffusion a bit together with the diffusion plastic film), but I like your idea of having an LED strip around the edges of the screen - didn't think of that!

- I am usually more of a Blender guy, so I followed a tutorial for doing knurling in onshape. The tool really doesn't like that much geometry and is laggy to work with, but feel free to check out the onshape file (linked in the README)

If you put the knob in a different parts studio then you'd probably have a lot less lag.

will give that a try next time, thank you!

Oh that looks very cool! I spent some time researching when I started but didn’t come across this. Thanks!

I think functionally the Focus Dial (I linked to it in my README as well) is the much better „product“ and keeps exactly that UX compared to what I built. I had to face the reality of my own limited knowledge and skillset to build something like that (and wanted to do my own thing), plus I really ended up liking that epaper display.

I must admit I've been guilty of reacting on the title and not your post. I opened it, saw some machine and immediately thought of the kitchen timer in the shape of a pomodoro I have on my desk here. Which is so dead simple, that's why I like it.

Now that I read your post and look at the photos, I think you definitely add something with the division of certain tasks! Besides, it's always cool to build something yourself, so please don't read my previous comment as a snark about reinventing the wheel or something. I just really appreciate the simple mechanical kitchen timer recommended for the pomodoro technique.

Absolutely no offense taken! I knew I was overengineering the hell out of this when I started it :)

It would help if the intro section mentioned the added features so the reader would understand why a custom device was necessary.

honestly feeling this - I (or my friend who now has the device) don't really follow this religiously either. I think it's great when you have a lot of work to be done and feel a little overwhelmed. Getting down into this rhythm can help you chip away at it.

I actually bought a 4" round LCD for that reason, but ended up ditching it in favor for the e-paper display. I also stuck to just showing minutes (and in the last minute 10-second interval updates) so that it doesn't get too distracting.

If anyone else has troubles loading this, It didn't work when I was logged in with my G Suite account. Using an incognito tab works fine though.

surprised nobody has mentioned the freecodecamp radio yet, I really like listening to this on a very low volume. Mostly Lo-Fi music that doesn't take your attention away.

https://coderadio.freecodecamp.org/

We've been using SAML to log in to AWS for the better part of a year now and it's been pretty good for us.

When logging in, you assume a role (sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML), I'm surprised you did not mention the worst part: logging in to the CLI with this. You either have to manually input the returned SAML assertion to the AWS cli[1], but luckily there is a tool called saml2aws[2] to do this with the majority of identity providers.

saml2aws sadly didn't have proper support for assuming many roles at once, so we even ended up writing our own tool for this.

This is something AWS has completely ignored so far and I am not aware of any progress towards a better CLI experience.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/aws-c...

[2]: https://github.com/Versent/saml2aws

Ah yes, you’re right. I had completely forgotten about this, simply because I haven’t used it. But yeah, it’s a big annoyance for a lot of people.