#time (27 links)
- UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? zachholman.com
- date-fns/date-fns github.com
⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️
Everything that competes for your time, in one place Your events, to-dos and good habits all appear on your daily calendar.
- This wasn't a very good essay. The closing line sums up its problem: "We need to... | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Here's a more nuanced view: speed matters, and you can be really successful developing important, business-critical software by emphasizing speed over quality. If it's a problem domain you're particularly familiar with, especially if you have a lot of tools, frameworks, and libraries to help you, you can get an impressive amount of work done.
As you continue to work, you'll slow down. At some point—about six weeks is my guess—you'll actually be going slower than someone who's focused on quality. They'll speed up over time (asymptotically), and you'll continue to slow down (also asymptotically). You'll still be ahead of them, though, because you got so much done in that initial burst of energy. Your life will start to suck, though, and you'll be looking forward to when the project is done.
Eventually—about three to six months, I'd guess—you'll fall behind. You'll be going so slow that your initial advantage will have been erased. Luckily, you now get to hand the project off and start a new one. Win!
Three to seven years later, your code will be thrown away. It will be so expensive to change that it no longer makes economic sense to maintain. If it's still relevant, it will be rewritten at great expense and even greater opportunity cost.
Well said.
- Epoch Converter - Unix Timestamp Converter epochconverter.com
Easy epoch/Unix timestamp converter for computer programmers. Includes epoch explanation and conversion syntax in various programming languages.
- strftime reference and sandbox strfti.me
- Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch hypermammut.sourceforge.net
- The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
In the cozy confines of personal life, we rarely used the power of numbers. The techniques of analysis that had proved so effective were left behind at the office at the end of the day and picked up again the next morning. The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy. And yet, almost imperceptibly, numbers are infiltrating the last redoubts of the personal. Sleep, exercise, sex, food, mood, location, alertness, productivity, even spiritual well-being are being tracked and measured, shared and displayed.
- Time Zones everytimezone.com
Never warp your brain with time zone math again.
Via gilest.
- If This Is A Blog Then What's Christmas?: There Are Enough Hours In The Day ifthisisablogthenwhatschristmas.blogspot.com
Occasionally I get asked how I have time to write a blog, a book and whatever ads need doing on a particular day. The short answer is that I just get up and, at some point, do them all.
Discover when the golden hour is at your current location, explore visually how the golden hour changes with the seasons and where you are in the world. [...] We calculate sunrise and sunset times. the elevation and azimuth of the sun and of course, display the golden hour.
Via kevan.
- Permatime permatime.com
Imagine you want to announce an event with participants across different time zones. Simply set the time, in your time zone, and permatime.com will generate a link for it. If you share this link with others, they will see that time in their own local time zone.
- Klok - Personal Time Tracking made Easy - Free Software klok.mcgraphix.com
Via rowanrosser.
- freckle: time tracking rethought letsfreckle.com
Possible replacement for Harvest (which works reasonably well but is a little clunky). Harvest costs half as much per month for individuals, though.
- timeago: a jQuery plugin timeago.yarp.com
"Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago")."
- RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software rescuetime.com
Automatically watches what you're doing and logs it. Not sure how you'd tie it to a specific job without intervention, though.
- Evidence Based Scheduling - Joel on Software joelonsoftware.com
Over the last year or so at Fog Creek we’ve been developing a system that’s so easy even our grouchiest developers are willing to go along with it. And as far as we can tell, it produces extremely reliable schedules.
- Time Management for Anarchists: The Movie nomediakings.org
Based on the paradoxical notion that anarchists have to be more organized than average if they don’t want to depend on power structures, and presents some ideas on how to kick the boss habit.
Planix is a hosted application that enables project teams to consistently and accurately estimate the resources, scheduling and cost of their software development projects.
- Simple time tracking software - Harvest getharvest.com
...brings simplicity back to time tracking. Quick to set up and easy to use, it provides you with insights on how your organization is spending its time.
A time management solution that allows you to easily track what you do during your day. ClockWork is ideal for anyone who works with clients on an hourly basis, or needs a solution to track productivity for any task or project.