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I work for a dev shop called Sanctuary Computer (https://www.sanctuary.computer). We take work/life balance very seriously and every employee has the agency to shape the company in ways they see fit. Would love to have more serious back-end/systems developers with me! + we’re always hiring.

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Haha, I love your website:

"Thank you for visiting Sanctuary Computer. Our website is currently closed.

Website hours are Monday to Friday 7 AM - 7 PM (in your browser's local time)."

I'd love to learn more about it but your website is currently closed it seems. I'll be honest, I feel like back when my parents told me to go to sleep when I didn't want to, which is frustrated and annoyed. Since I don't want to assume too much about the intention behind it, could you explain this choice?

Just for fun really- distancing ourselves from workaholic tech culture. FYI, you can execute window.HackerDojo.disableNightmode() in the console to disable the closed page.

Thanks. I saw a website recently on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27110263) that had the same idea, you can see a demo here https://www.nightnight.xn--q9jyb4c/demo. I personally really liked the "I’ll sleep later, I really need to use this site right now", I feel like it's more respectful of users.

On the other hand it's intersting to see how much I expect a website to just work and be available 24/7 when I click on a link, so there's a lesson for me here too.

FYI When the site is open for business it downloads 134MB of data.

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