Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding

I&#x27;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 &#x27;huge&#x27; in order to be able to read (and that&#x27;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&#x27;m hereby precommitting to a maniac weekend starting tomorrow! I&#x27;ll reply here with a link to the time-lapse on Monday...

This was a ton of fun and I&#x27;d love to do it, or a modified shorter version of it again. It&#x27;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackthesystem.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli...</a><p>I don&#x27;t have a Mac, so I guess I&#x27;ll have to build the screenshot&#x2F;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;dont-you-have-anyt...</a><p>It&#x27;s a simple site blocker I made after doing the same &#x2F;etc&#x2F;hosts routine a couple of times.

This is pretty fun. Did you have any concern about privacy of her sessions? Thanks for the post and conclusions.

Please put spaces after commas in your code :&#x27;(

This needs more data layers! Heart rate, movement, blood sugar, EEG etc :-)

Is that the awesome tiling window manager?

related: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6760685" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6760685</a>

Can we look at the 67 commits and review them? &lt;&#x2F;troll&gt;