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2026-04-21 13:39
I got tired of Pomodoro lying to me, so I built a dual-budget desktop timer
Classic Pomodoro has a hidden assumption: once the work timer starts, you should stay focused until it ends.
That sounds great in theory. In practice, it kept failing for me.
Sometimes I would get distracted in the middle of a focus session. Sometimes other people would interrupt me. The timer kept running anyway, and when those 25 minutes were over, I had no honest idea how much I had actually ...