I'm so terribly jealous of people able to read small fonts. Now that I can finally afford large screen monitors my eyes are so messed up that I need to set the font to 'huge' in order to be able to read (and that's <i>with</i> glasses, 2.5).<p>What a super way to promote beeminder.com, and a very nice idea for a project.
Ok, this is too epic to keep putting off! I'm hereby precommitting to a maniac weekend starting tomorrow! I'll reply here with a link to the time-lapse on Monday...
This was a ton of fun and I'd love to do it, or a modified shorter version of it again. It's hard to shut down the rest of my life for an entire week, but maybe a long weekend. Or I could do a week where the computer is taking screenshots 9-5 and I pre-commit to post the video as soon as it is over.
Congrats Bethany! I am a long time Beeminder user. You guys work hard. I think your tool is amazing, although, I have my ups and downs with it. :) Very proud of you! Keep it up! I owe you a long email with thoughtful feedback.
I think I would like to try this. Seeing it done twice has really got me interested in this. I think the key is that you're held accountable for how you spend your time due to the screenshots.<p>Reminds me of how a guy hired someone to slap him when he got off topic while working:<a href="http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigslist-to-slap-me-in-the-face-and-why-it-quadrupled-my-productivity/" rel="nofollow">http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli...</a><p>I don't have a Mac, so I guess I'll have to build the screenshot/webcam stuff myself this weekend.
Cool! I need to try this someday (week). And the video is just pure madness. You might want to add a small warning, though - I'm not an expert nor an epileptic, but the video does look seizure inducing to me.<p>Plug: Maybe you could try a tiny chrome plugin I wrote:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-you-have-anything-be/hkaenpmlhpjkgfnfnbfjmkmjpjpmehpa" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-you-have-anyt...</a><p>It's a simple site blocker I made after doing the same /etc/hosts routine a couple of times.