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BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar

213 points by eieio 3y ago

trevoragilbert 3y ago
Whimsy! Love it.
dmoy 3y ago
Haha that's awesome. Too bad Google doesn't seem to make official easter eggs that are as cool as this anymore (like the Google search zerg rush one)
- eieio 3y ago
  don't think there's any chance of it happening but definitely daydreamed about getting it upstreamed after the Google Calendar twitter account posted about it! That'd be a ton of fun.
- paulirish 3y ago
  Funnily enough, we just added a _surprisingly_ similar easter egg to Chrome Devtools: https://x.com/nucliweb/status/1757506389495202000 https://x.com/nucliweb/status/1757506389495202000. I just had to comment now to assert that we had the same awesome idea. :) eieio: your link to Juice it Or Lose It makes me so happy. For a decade I point people to that presentation. It's just perfect. Our easter egg is could afford some more juice though.. I might yoink some of your code. :) great stuff.
  - eieio 3y ago
    paul - really glad that you enjoyed the post and I appreciate that you appreciated me mentioning the talk! It's so good! It was great to get to revisit it and borrow from it so directly. And that's a lovely easter egg! Had no idea that it was there. Agreed that it could use some more juice; yoink away :)
kefabean 3y ago
Now that’s what I call a productivity hack!
beretguy 3y ago
That’s awesome! I’d play it… if I wouldn’t refuse to use Google products.
brohoolio 3y ago
This is so great
d416 3y ago
Paddling a ball into a destructive path toward obliterating other people’s demand for my time is just the rando reminder of priorities in life I needed this week. Thank you!
Brajeshwar 3y ago
Is it just me but Google products such as Calendar, Sheets, and even Docs performance has deteriorated really bad in Safari. Of course, they work well in Chrome. I like to do quick tasks in Safari, my default browser, such as bricking meeting slots in the Calendar.
- burkaman 3y ago
  It's not just you, and it's not just Safari. I use Firefox for everything, but have to keep Chrome installed for the Google products I'm forced to use for work. I don't know if I can accuse them of intentional sabotage, but they certainly don't do performance testing outside their own browser.
  - devsda 3y ago
    I don't use Google products in Firefox or other browsers often enough to notice or care about performance but some say spoofing the UA string to chrome fixes many of those issues. I hope you've tried that.
    - netmare 3y ago
      Wouldn't that cause positive feedback in the analytics? Firefox usage is already below the magic 5%. If we start hiding, we may soon join IE5 in unsupported land.
kunley 3y ago
Best productivity app this year! :D
martin-adams 3y ago
Fascinating that even though those videos don't have sound, I hear the bashing noise in my mind's ears. This is referred to as vEAR, or “visually evoked auditory response.”[1] [1]https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/synesthesia-noisy-gifs-psychology-vear https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/syn...

213 points by eieio 3y ago

Whimsy! Love it.

dmoy 3y ago

Haha that's awesome. Too bad Google doesn't seem to make official easter eggs that are as cool as this anymore (like the Google search zerg rush one)

eieio 3y ago
don't think there's any chance of it happening but definitely daydreamed about getting it upstreamed after the Google Calendar twitter account posted about it! That'd be a ton of fun.
paulirish 3y ago
Funnily enough, we just added a _surprisingly_ similar easter egg to Chrome Devtools: https://x.com/nucliweb/status/1757506389495202000 https://x.com/nucliweb/status/1757506389495202000. I just had to comment now to assert that we had the same awesome idea. :) eieio: your link to Juice it Or Lose It makes me so happy. For a decade I point people to that presentation. It's just perfect. Our easter egg is could afford some more juice though.. I might yoink some of your code. :) great stuff.
- eieio 3y ago
  paul - really glad that you enjoyed the post and I appreciate that you appreciated me mentioning the talk! It's so good! It was great to get to revisit it and borrow from it so directly. And that's a lovely easter egg! Had no idea that it was there. Agreed that it could use some more juice; yoink away :)

kefabean 3y ago

Now that’s what I call a productivity hack!

beretguy 3y ago

That’s awesome! I’d play it… if I wouldn’t refuse to use Google products.

brohoolio 3y ago

This is so great

d416 3y ago

Paddling a ball into a destructive path toward obliterating other people’s demand for my time is just the rando reminder of priorities in life I needed this week. Thank you!

Brajeshwar 3y ago

Is it just me but Google products such as Calendar, Sheets, and even Docs performance has deteriorated really bad in Safari. Of course, they work well in Chrome. I like to do quick tasks in Safari, my default browser, such as bricking meeting slots in the Calendar.

burkaman 3y ago
It's not just you, and it's not just Safari. I use Firefox for everything, but have to keep Chrome installed for the Google products I'm forced to use for work. I don't know if I can accuse them of intentional sabotage, but they certainly don't do performance testing outside their own browser.
- devsda 3y ago
  I don't use Google products in Firefox or other browsers often enough to notice or care about performance but some say spoofing the UA string to chrome fixes many of those issues. I hope you've tried that.
  - netmare 3y ago
    Wouldn't that cause positive feedback in the analytics? Firefox usage is already below the magic 5%. If we start hiding, we may soon join IE5 in unsupported land.

kunley 3y ago

Best productivity app this year! :D

martin-adams 3y ago

Fascinating that even though those videos don't have sound, I hear the bashing noise in my mind's ears. This is referred to as vEAR, or “visually evoked auditory response.”[1] [1]https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/synesthesia-noisy-gifs-psychology-vear https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/syn...