Progress Watchdog: A program to help avoid analysis paralysis and time dilation due to tunnel vision.
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Hat tip to the author for the buzzer sound effect I use.
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I used ChatGPT to help me prototype this tool. AI haters please send your complaints, religious treatises, and assertions about the implications this has on my character to /dev/null. I've heard them all before and frankly I don't give a rat's posterior.
Right now you can check the project out from github and run:
uv run progress-watchdog
If you want to run the program without installing, you can use uv for that as well:
╭─cpatti at rocinante in ~ 25-03-09 - 21:06:30
╰─○ uv tool run progress-watchdog <region:us-east-1>
usage: progress-watchdog [-h] --buzzer BUZZER [--timeout TIMEOUT]
progress-watchdog: error: the following arguments are required: --buzzer
╭─cpatti at rocinante in ~ 25-03-09 - 21:06:36
╰─○ uv tool run progress-watchdog --help <region:us-east-1>
usage: progress-watchdog [-h] --buzzer BUZZER [--timeout TIMEOUT]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--buzzer BUZZER Filename for the alert sound to play when no progress is detected
--timeout TIMEOUT Number of seconds to wait before alerting that no progress was detected.
╭─cpatti at rocinante in ~ 25-03-09 - 21:06:54
╰─○ <region:us-east-1>
- Implement some cleaner way to exit than Ctrl-c with an exception :)
- Make configurables into args or a configuration file or something.
- Make the "I made Progress!" key chord not insert characters into the buffer.