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32 lines
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title = "pomd"
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description = "pomodoro timer daemon"
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[taxonomies]
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categories = ["utility"]
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languages = ["rust"]
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[extra]
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finished = "november 2023"
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github = ["soaosdev/pomd", "soaosdev/pomc"]
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crates = ["pomd", "pomc"]
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this was a pretty simple rust project i did over the course of a couple days
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i had been wanting to experiment with d-bus on linux for a while and figured that writing a pomodoro daemon and client would be a good way to understand the basics of how d-bus interfaces work
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luckily i found the wonderful [zbus](https://crates.io/crates/zbus) crate which made everything for hooking up interface super simple
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i think the hardest thing about this project was trying to figure out how to accurately keep the time left in the timer
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as with many problems in rust the solution ended up being to find a [crate](https://crates.io/crates/pausable_clock) that implemented a "pausable clock" that worked similarly to a normal rust `std::time::Instant`
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it's pretty configurable from what i remember
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i used this program when i was using [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org) and wanted a daemon to integrate into my statusbar
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now i use KDE plasma which has a pretty good pomodoro applet available, maybe in the future i could make some kind of widget that communicates with the daemon
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