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(DIR) Post #9rRlOnuYugqDHXEtMG by beegrrl@radical.town
2020-01-28T02:23:37Z
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@klaatu Episode 337 is really getting me thinking about how much time I spend playing quake instead of doing something useful. For a few weeks now I've been trying to figure out a way to track my productivity. I'll be sure to check out the acct commands, but I'll likely settle on some hastily written script. Systemd is nice and all, but if I want a time tracking program that works for most UNIX like systems it'll probably involve grabbing xorg window titles, cron jobs, .csv "databases" and R for processing the whole mess. If this ever materialises I'll be sure to let the fediverse know.Either way, I enjoy the slackware package episodes quite a lot. Sometimes the tool I need already exists on my system and I just need to be made aware of it via Klaatu
(DIR) Post #9rRlOoAVxNbM50hdDs by klaatu@mastodon.xyz
2020-01-28T03:02:06Z
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@beegrrl Thanks! I *think* you lumped in some thoughts together that were somewhat unrelated, but just to make sure, I'll note that ``acct`` (or Slackware, for that matter) doesn't require or use systemd. The GNU acct package (sometimes called ``psacct`` in some places) is available across UNIX.I think your mention of systemd was regarding the GUI stuff, though, but I wanted to get the clarification down in writing 🙂 Also - yeah, a holistic time tracker would be nice.
(DIR) Post #9rUSgZJjhK2xZvDEoa by beegrrl@radical.town
2020-01-29T10:16:29Z
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@klaatu for some reason psacct isn't installed by default on debian bullseye/sid, but I installed it and it's pretty interesting, but I found something much more useful for a holistic time tracker. arbtt is an automatic, rule based time tracker written in haskell. Using haskell's package manager, cabal, I installed arbtt. I haven't played with it too much yet but the example config in the docs seems to be "good enough until I attempt to learn haskell". The project's website is at arbtt.nomeata.deThere's no gui so it truly is a small program that runs in the background with no required init system. Just tack it on to your desktop's autostart script and it'll run in the background Here's a screenshot of my terminal showing it's output. It's been running for 30ish minutes and shows a great breakdown of how long each window is in focus
(DIR) Post #9rVrbhXKP4k1dNJ1Jg by klaatu@mastodon.xyz
2020-01-30T02:30:34Z
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@beegrrl wow what a find! I'll have to look at that, it sounds very intriguing. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #9rYZZU1OdwaA7AEDCK by klaatu@mastodon.xyz
2020-01-31T01:11:00Z
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@beegrrl Trying this out now. Seems great, I wish there was a way to arbitrarily insert contextual timestamps or comments. Then again, I guess if I'm going to the trouble to do that, I may as well just insert comments into syslog and parse that at the end of the day.
(DIR) Post #9rYZZUGdjGm8sRMNxQ by beegrrl@radical.town
2020-01-31T02:32:37Z
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@klaatu i think it depends on your ideal use case. My ideal is to get a break down of how I spend my day without actually putting any effort into manual tracking. Maybe arbtt has a way to add comments in it's config? I'm not sure
(DIR) Post #9rZR6bakoTi8iiRfvc by klaatu@mastodon.xyz
2020-01-31T19:52:26Z
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@beegrrl ok if I record a hacker public radio episode about abrtt? I don't want to snipe a cool discovery, but do want to share with others. That said, if you intend to start podcasting, I don't want to step on yer toes.
(DIR) Post #9rZSvpfQLCbj64cWpM by beegrrl@radical.town
2020-01-31T20:12:51Z
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@klaatu Feel free to record an episode about it. I'm still a little ways out from podcasting. Either way, the whole point of free software is sharing and it's hard to share when people don't know a program exists. I'm thinking of doing a "software of the week" section so the format should be different enough from a typical HPR software spotlight episode
(DIR) Post #9rZUGrcwLhTLD93Eg4 by klaatu@mastodon.xyz
2020-01-31T20:27:54Z
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@beegrrl that's a great idea. I'm still messing around with abrtt so it may be a while before I record, and frankly the way we use it may be different enough that two eps about the same topic are justified
(DIR) Post #9ra2epcwphi4Oreg9Q by beegrrl@radical.town
2020-02-01T02:53:12Z
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@klaatu quick question, what do you use for hosting and content delivery and how do you generate rss feeds? I checked the slacker media handbook but I didn't see anything related content distribution. I'm sure a shell script and rsync would work but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I can use an existing wheel instead
(DIR) Post #9ra9sNvTJzu4DfjHPc by klaatu@mastodon.xyz
2020-02-01T04:14:07Z
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@beegrrl I use [podwrite](http://slackermedia.info/podwrite/), a script I wrote specifically to speed up the workflow of my own show. It's open source but I am under no illusion that it's useful to anyone else in its current state. I need to clean up the code and make it easier to install.That said, there are similar projects out there, like https://jekyll-octopod.github.io/ and https://github.com/albertobeta/PodcastGenerator that seem pretty neat.