Why do you waste so much time on the internet

• tubearchivist

  153 4,043 9.3 Python

  Your self hosted YouTube media server

  

• ossdatabase

  9 30 6.0 Ruby

  Source for ossdatabase.com

Sure. Some links I just bookmarked and will use:

https://highbrow.se/ (Alternative search engine)

https://cora-pic.com/en (Meme generator)

https://www.mightyapp.com/ (New upcoming cloud browser)

https://ossdatabase.com/ (Database of OSS)

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• egui_node_graph

  6 688 4.6 Rust

  Discontinued Build your node graph applications in Rust, using egui

Gankra's work on a useful rust memory model is both fascinating and useful: https://twitter.com/Gankra_/status/1509335163045650436

This tool to convert low-complexity rust tests to proofs is interesting and something I'm glad I know exists: https://model-checking.github.io/kani-verifier-blog/2022/05/...

I'm using this code I found out about via reddit in a side project, probably less interesting to you though: https://github.com/setzer22/egui_node_graph

(Warning, videos from here on out):

Cool product demo of a futuristic debugger: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/debugging-by-querying-a-datab...

These people also have a cool demo of splitting a single program across two different computers (frontend and backend webserver in their case). Maybe a bit less convincing than the previous one, but something I intend to watch: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags

These people have some really cool work on automatically solving physics problems (just linking to one of their talks as an example): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhDgxkiR9c

• Fetcher

  4 13 1.7 JavaScript

  Discontinued A chrome extension which fetches your favourite feeds, so you don't have to.

I have the EXACT same problem. Constantly refreshing and refreshing insta, reddit, hackernews, etc etc. Shameless plug, I built this to try to curb my addiction -> https://github.com/neriymus/Fetcher, maybe it'll help someone else.

• control-panel-for-twitter

  38 1,700 9.1 JavaScript

  Browser extension which gives you more control over your Twitter timeline and adds missing features and UI improvements - available for desktop and mobile browsers

https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter/

If you need it for mobile, on my mobile (Android) I downloaded Kiwi Browser so I can install that plugin.

• LeechBlockNG

  36 576 8.0 JavaScript

  LeechBlock NG (Next Generation) for Firefox is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them.

I logged off from Twitter and Reddit and blocked it with Leechblock NG [1] on my computer. That took care of 50% of the problem. I would still browse them on my phone.

When I switched phones I decided to not install Twitter or Reddit on the new one for a week.

After getting over some FOMO on the first week, I decided to extend it for 1 month.

I have been "clean" for ~7 months now. Except for the occasional direct link from my mobile phone, and fortunately thanks to the ingrate mobile experience their webs provide, I will probably keep doing this for a while.

I find other ways to distract myself, though (other websites, doing random queries in google, etc). I am working on the underlying problems I have. But for me getting the distractions out of the way first was easier than the alternative.

[1] https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/

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