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It kind of feels like some kind of idle loop where my mind has some spare cycles and it defaults to hacker news and similar stuff, then it goes down the rabbit
by bostonsre 4y ago
It kind of feels like some kind of idle loop where my mind has some spare cycles and it defaults to hacker news and similar stuff, then it goes down the rabbit hole once started. Just making it a little harder to view the sites seems to help me a lot. I add 127.0.0.1 <site> to my /etc/hosts file during work hours. I find myself looking at a broken page a couple times a day without even realizing how I got there, but it allows me to avoid the rabbit hole and just get back to work.
- dhosek 4y agoIs there a good MacOS¹/Unix-y way to automate this? (I’m guessing a crontab that swaps two versions of /etc/hosts is my best option but maybe there’s something more elegant?) ⸻ 1. I’m aware of ScreenTime, but it’s too easily overridden.
- smokey_the_bear 4y agoI have a directory with a restricted hosts file and an empty one, and two aliases that just copy one of them to /etc I can turn it off whenever I want with one commandline, but it’s enough to keep me from falling into the rabbit hole accidentally
- cocacola1 4y agoI use HeyFocus: https://heyfocus.com/ https://heyfocus.com/ I bought it when it was a 1 time $20 purchase. You can define what times you want to block (Monday - Friday from 9am-5pm, for example). You can also lock preferences for when the Focus is active so you can’t change it. There’s also options for adding breaks. It’s worked well for me. I know a little about myself and I need something like this to force me from being distracted. Whenever I find a new site, I add it to the list of blocked sites. You can also block apps, or whitelist sites so everything except a few sites is blocked.