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Interesting... But I have a real problem with something that is recording what I'm doing in my editor or IDE and then sending it via http to an external service
by cphoover 8y ago
Interesting... But I have a real problem with something that is recording what I'm doing in my editor or IDE and then sending it via http to an external service... It seems just a step away from being a keylogger.
I'd be more interested in this if it could work as a native application, on my machine, and I could still see and export these insights, without the need of being connected to an external service.
- Ndymium 8y agoHey, that's a valid opinion. :) No code is ever sent and I would not even want that, but I understand the concern. This code base won't convert easily into a native application, but if you don't mind installing some dependencies, you can run your own version on your own computer. All the plugins have the possibility of changing the API URL, so you can point them at localhost or your own instance if you wish. The instructions to do that might not be the best, though, and there's a few different things to install that are required to run it.
- dancek 8y agoIf you want to, you could inspect the API and read source code for the plugins that you use (and disable automatically updating plugins if your editor supports that). Or you could run a local instance. It's all open source and plugins support specifying your own endpoint so you're not tied to the server provided by the author. Disclosure: I'm the author of two plugins: code-stats-vim and code-stats-zsh.