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diff --git a/content/projects/pomd/index.md b/content/projects/pomd/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93ba0ff --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/pomd/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ ++++ +title = "pomd" +description = "pomodoro timer daemon" +[taxonomies] +categories = ["utility"] +languages = ["rust"] +[extra] +finished = "november 2023" +github = ["exvacuum/pomd", "exvacuum/pomc"] +crates = ["pomd", "pomc"] ++++ + +this was a pretty simple rust project i did over the course of a couple days + +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 + +luckily i found the wonderful [zbus](https://crates.io/crates/zbus) crate which made everything for hooking up interface super simple + +i think the hardest thing about this project was trying to figure out how to accurately keep the time left in the timer + +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` + +it's pretty configurable from what i remember + +i used this program when i was using [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org) and wanted a daemon to integrate into my statusbar + + + +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 + + |