time VS digraph

Probably boring to most people but I created a tool to nail exactly 40 hours a week contracting using the laziest possible inputs getting me out as early as possible on Friday:

https://github.com/cynoclast/time

Usage example:

tm 8.5 9.27 8.83 8.87 9:45-1:23 1:33-

14:11

54 minutes

Notice you don't have to give it AM/PM? Also don't have to give it any flags. It figures out what to calculate based on number of arguments alone. And it knows 9:45 to 1:23 is around 4 hours, not -8.

And during the week, decimal hours for timesheets:

tm 8:30-12:30 12:40-6:40

10.0

I used it 5x a week during my contracting days.

I wrote a small program to manage my contracting time after it being gently suggested that I stick to 40 hours and that overtime wasn't needed of me (calculate hours per day and when to leave Friday to hit 40.0). I wrote it so that usage was absolutely as lazy as possible. So typical use cases look like this:

>$ tm 8:30-12:30 12:40-

Time to leave: 16:40

so as to hit 8.0 hours for the day.

and

>$ tm 8.5 9.27 8.83 8.87 9:45-1:23 1:33-

14:11

54 minutes

is an example of when to leave (early!) on Friday to hit 40.0

Note how you don't have to tell it AM/PM or use 24 hour time. Nor give it any special flags to tell it which calculation to run. And it just handles the rollover at noon for you.

source: https://github.com/cynoclast/time (Java, because that's what I used at the time)

My own purpose in using it is to be able to get back to any link that I've read or have potentially wanted to read at a later point in time.

You scan see screenshots here: https://github.com/emwalker/digraph.

I have the same habit and wrote a web app to catalog the links I come across:

https://digraph.app/

This was kind of the idea behind a side project I started a few years ago:

https://digraph.app/

https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...

I definitely think crowd-sourcing and a well-conceived reputation management system that can influence results are good next areas for exploration.

> I think building search vertical that are hand-curated would be very interesting to see.

That was my inspiration behind a side project I made a few years ago — a decentralized, hand curated "search engine" [0]. Never got beyond the side project stage. But I see promise in this in the future. Eventually we'll figure out that human and moderated curation is better than the best machine learning.

[0] https://github.com/emwalker/digraph