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It actually does work for me, the audible ticking and vocal time status updates keep me aware of the time and constantly brings my attention back to what I'm supposed to be doing. Of course it's only supplemental and not a silver bullet.

It also has alot of customizable options and I think that fact that it's just a single Vue file wrapped in Electron makes it super hackable and easy to adjust to your own preferences too.

There's no nuclear option yet but I could see it being added down the road if there's enough interest. It's possible in Electron to prevent the user from closing or minimizing an app. Preventing the user from uninstalling it would be a lot more difficult but I've seen other apps accomplish it.

Hey HN,

I built Cringe Clock, a Pomodoro timer app for us—procrastinators, and the chronically distracted. You know, the ones who find themselves an hour deep into a YouTube rabbit hole when there's work to be done.

Cringe Clock is like that friend who's a bit too much but always gets you to the gym. It's loud, it's flashy, and it absolutely refuses to be ignored. Perfect for anyone who's ever lost track of time.

What's different?

In Your Face: Always on top, because out of sight is out of mind.

- Flashy UI: Designed to draw your wandering eyes back to work.

- Ticking Sound: Nothing says "deadline's looming" quite like it.

- ADHD-Friendly: More than just a timer, it's a focus booster.

- Customizable: Because we all get distracted differently.

- Developed with Vue and Electron and runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Check it out and let me know what you think

This is super interesting. Looks like it's not just an emergency fallback, but could be part of our daily lives. I doubt it'll fully replace the internet, but it could be a game-changer for rural or disaster-hit areas. The off-grid culture angle is cool too. Could pave the way for some more decentralized use-cases.

What are institutions doing to fix this? How can they encourage diversity of thought and opinion, even controversial opinions?

Absolutely true. Whoever is downvoting leave a comment to explain. Are we okay with banks discriminating against free speech but not against porn?

Familiarity breeds contempt

Remember, the tech workers coding the algorithms that enable these censorship biases are reading HN and I don't think they like reading comments that counter their ideology. Hence downvotes with no comments or justification.

The New York Times is likely already working on a new article with the title: "Rehabilitating Satan, an Angel with a Bad Rap"

Thanks for the laugh - The fact that we look to greedy corporations for politics and ideology is absolutely ridiculous

Mining prices are skyrocketing right now - Still extremely profitable even in a bear market

Not so sure about the Yoga (easily subbed with cardio) but I can see breathing exercises helping. That said, I would like to see these kids just having less screen time and more outdoor activity and compare the results to this study.

Wow, thanks for reminding me about those. I didn't think anything of them when they added them to my account. Looks like I got 1400 lumens from the drop.

Warren Buffett disagrees with you

Developer quality of life. Lucee and CFWheels gives you the best of both worlds. Also, I hate Ruby syntax. I’d sooner use Golang.

Lucee.io all the way. It was featured here on hn awhile back. Basically dynamic ecmascript on the JVM. Great for quickly prototyping apps with. I’ve also built many highly scalable enterprise applications with it.

100% Lucee is amazing! However I prefer Wheels framework for more of a Ruby on Rails feel.

True but it's just not as cool as all the dystopian films made us think it would be

$1000+ price tag O-o -- Hopefully there will be enough demand to eventually make e-ink monitors mainstream so we can see the prices come down

This. We pray and give thanks as a family multiple times per day. Not in an empty monotonous prayer but we all chime in things and people that we're thankful for. Simple and genuine.

Interesting, I wonder how many other photographers will delete their photos. I'm curious, can you and will you be uploading them elsewhere?

RIP. I'm sure this acquisition will be great for the team but it's pretty obvious Getty will fill the site with tricky sponsored images. They will also likely start fading out new free images until the site is mostly stale or filled with sponsored image links. I could also see them playing around with image licensing so it's less obvious how you can use them. Welp, I guess there's always Pexels.

Actually that entity demands both. Man's justice and God's justice.

Yes, there are abusers and that is heinous. The catholic church has done unspeakable amounts of damage to Christianity. However, that damage was done by going against the teaching of Christ who warned against such evil saying: “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." Mark 9:42. There will be justice. I can't imagine having a worldview where these evil people just die and cease to exist. Totally escaping justice.

I agree that it isn't the same motivation but we're on trend to seeing a similar result. If we do get to that extreme then by that time, we'll have a new moral system which won't allow these types of conversations, in the same way certain extremist sects of christianity didn't allow dissidents to live. However, the form of christianity that we have now simply hurts peoples feelings. Hardly cause for such outrage. Though today hurting someones feelings is the equivalent of violence and there is no way to be forgiven except a life of apologizing and groveling. Exciting time to be alive.

I see no issues with Christianity from a philosophical standpoint. It explains things which our beyond our natural/physical world. Those things impact how we live in this world. I'm curious what you mean in your statement, please unpack your claim.

The same can be said of science in that science can't explain the supernatural or the after-life. Science was never meant to explain those things but we have tried to make it a replacement by trying to naturalize everything. Things that go beyond this realm of understanding and reason.

> But the fact that admission to this community required total philosophical adherence is just bizarre.

I don't think it's bizarre at all. With the church removed from western society something will fill the vacuum. And truly it already has. Our society requires complete unquestioning philosophical adherence to its new religion. What happened during the French revolution? They turned the churches into "Temples of Reason" all the while lopping off the head of anyone that did not wholly and totally adhere to their new moral code. Even in the end the god of this new moral code met his fate by the monster he created. Believe me what is happening is not what anyone here should want. For all of you who are thinking and reasonable. Read the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_d...

I'm a web dev so I only use it for web apps but you can certainly use it beyond web applications.

Awesome! I’ve been using a similar language for the last 10 years called Lucee (Lucee.io). It’s dynamic with an ecmascript style syntax and also runs on the jvm so it scales super well. I wonder how this compares.