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+title = "pomd"
+description = "pomodoro timer daemon"
+[taxonomies]
+categories = ["utility"]
+languages = ["rust"]
+[extra]
+finished = "november 2023"
+github = ["exvacuum/pomd", "exvacuum/pomc"]
+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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+![pomd segment in my dwm statusbar](statusbar.png)
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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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