#MAD Mindfulness Anti Distraction Chrome extension to help curtail bad habitual distractions. #How to run #About I have 0 idea if this works in practice. Inspirations taken from bits and pieces of psychology studies and my own lazy-ass intuitions. Related : Baumeister's work. Insightful Daniel Golemann Vid Previously tried using extensions that prevent distractions by fully blocking or restricting site usage (e.g. StayFocusd). Worked in the short term, but I would eventually just remove them out of inconvenience. The goal is to aid the rewiring of wanting long-term goals (short-term happiness has value). Fun 'human-capital development' focused web browsing links are given as alternative browsing. #Developer Diary Monitoring my process. Started at HackWestern.
v0.1 29/03/2015 - Knowledge basis: code academy javascript, stack overflow, github files of other chrome extensions, chrome extension api and docs. - Heavily inspired by other anti distraction extensions, e.g. StayFocusd or ColdTurkey. - Wanted to manipulate myself into not being distracted, by criticizing and causing cognitive dissonance. - Knowledge gained: Negative, or annoyingly long to type guilt messages are draining. Hard to be productive when you're feeling shitty. Going to try to use inspiring, or user-empowering quotes that also make you think, but aren't depressing amongst other additional features in next vers. v0.1.0.3 30/03/2015 - Changed UI so the alternatives are upfront, more immediate and relatively bigger. Intuitively that should be the focus, not the typing to unlock/go to the website. - Learned a bit more jquery syntax. It's much nicer for manipulating html elements =D. - The more positive focused thoughts seem better for now... Blind optimism doesn't seem appropriate here though. v0.1.0.5 02/04/2015 - Fought around with AJAX functions. They're whack. Was too stubborn on trying to find a way to return a value from an async call. In the end, I should not fight with callback functions, just use em and reorganize my code so it's not like how you normally code in Java/C++, - Moving on to user customization now. Lots of things to consider. Should I use angular for 1-pagey-ness functionality? Tough questions. I think I'll try. v0.2.0.0 10/04/2015 - Learnt AngularJS to implement some one-page functionality goodness. It's SO COOOOOOL. Enjoying the simplicity of the MVC framework and how seamless and speedy things run. - Ran into more asynchronous problems, although this time I fixed them rather quickly now that I have more experience. Just gotta get used to that asynchronous thinkin ya feeeeel. - I keep on thinking of more and more things to do or add. I'm going to have to speed up the rate in which I complete things, or else I'm going to get squashed. v0.2.1.0 12/04/2015 - Now fully using AngularJS wherever I can. Still a newbie, but angular makes everything so much easier. - Had a real hard time setting up Protractor with angular + chrome extensions. Gave up, but I still want to get into TDD. Going to try using Karma next? - Finally got around to implementing some customization functionality. Took me around a whole day of coding. - My code base is getting progressively more and more disgustingly obese and gross. v0.2.1.1 14/04/2015 - Bug fixing day! I'm beginning to think I should stagger-schedule the implementation of new features vs bug fixing. - Man do I love bug fixing, seriously I'm hella good at it. - Major bugs: Fixed alternate ways of trying to bypass the typing challenge. Fixed blocking of embedded requests. Poor fix, but a fix of teh facebook redirection links. - Still wanting to explore developmental tools and TDD. Grunt or something to build everything would be nice. apparently chjrome extensions are auto minified? v.0.3.0 08/06/2015 - Added a few features, reason tracking and options to increase amount of phrases to get passed - Decided against implementing notifications for now. Difficult to determine false negatives. - Focused more on prevention methods. Reason tracking allows for immediate self evaluation. Gave an option to increase number of phrases to type. Delayed gratification works.