Tomatoes (http://tomato.es)

Description: Pomodoro technique® time tracker.

Last month we built the public API. This month we want mainly to rebuild leaderboards using async tasks.

Skills needed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

License: MIT

Tomatoes (http://tomato.es)

Pomodoro technique® time tracker.

We'd like to build a public API, but there's a lot of other tasks that could be done.

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS, JavaScript.

http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

License: MIT

Correct, see https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/engine and https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/scripting_test.

I totally agree with you, except for the "not leaving LinkedIn" part. I closed my account about 1 year ago after having to deal with spam, bad UI, and useless connections.

Also removing your profile from the network is a bad use experience: I had to send a customer support request to close it because I had more than 500 connections.

I think that I will build something in the near future because I like the idea of collecting connections and achievements concerning my professional career, but I'll never use LinkedIn again.

I also shut down my LinkedIn account. While I was using it, I was never able to get it to completely stop sending me emails. My workaround was to create a filter in Gmail to immediately toss anything from LinkedIn. After a few years of this and recruiter spam on the site itself, I decided it wasn't worth it. Dark patterns, privacy concerns, spam, and worthless recruiters - why bother?

As an additional bonus, I can now view some people's LinkedIn accounts without giving myself away. So I get to look people up without any of the downsides. I guess this benefit will disappear if people start to abandon LinkedIn, but for now it's nice to be able to creep on people anonymously.

Check out also Draw![0], you can use it to draw tiny pixel art pictures and GIF animations.

Update: I made a while ago to experiment with Redis and the <canvas> element. The code is open source at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang.

[0] http://drawbang.com

I tried the Pomodoro Technique to avoid distractions and to stay more focused when I started freelancing. I was also trying to track my work time, so I built Tomatoes, a simple web app to do both.

The app is open source, you can download the code at http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes, or you can use the version running at http://tomato.es.

I totally agree with you. When I started to work as a freelancer I felt the same for the first year. That's why I dediced to start, with a former coworker of mine, a coworking place with accessible rates near the city where I lived. Now that I'm not a freelancer anymore, and I don't run actively Meme coworking[0] anymore, I'm proud because it's still active and full of interesting people!

[0] http://memecoworking.com

Great project! I'd like to tell to everyone who want to start drawing pixel art, I built a very simple tool to get started with this technique: http://drawbang.com.

Try it, give me your feedback, and share your pixel art masterpieces!

Neat :)

I definitely need a right-click colour picker (or shift-click) to work more easily. Can I suggest cutting back your GUI, removing that 3d look, or if you like it too much, then making the pixel art pictures also be 3d like that.

Also your palette is way too saturated. Check out something like http://androidarts.com/palette/16pal.htm for a much nicer set of colours.

Nice, thanks for the suggestions!

I definitely must find some time to make a lot of planned features/fixes. See a list of them at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/issues.

Er, why can I move right or up but not left or down?

Because I was lazy and you can move left or down by 1 by moving right or up by 15 :)

Well, about presentations, a couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation about a tool[0] to create text adventures with Markdown and created a slide deck using that tool. So the deck was itself a "presentable" text adventure[1].

[0] https://github.com/potomak/gist-txt

[1] https://potomak.github.io/gist-txt/#737a452d6f38c2b87403

About the topic of replacing jQuery I really enjoyed reading "Weaning yourself off jQuery"[0] by James Halliday. It shows how to replace some of the jQuery features with the DOM API and/or with npm libraries such hyperquest[1].

[0] http://substack.net/weaning_yourself_off_jquery

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/hyperquest