Reclaim Your Focus with ~12 Lines of Bash
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The article presents a bash script as an alternative to productivity tools like ColdTurkey and LeechBlock for blocking distracting websites, with the HN community showing interest in the concept.
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smallerize
3 months ago
If you don't have anything running on localhost, your browser will just spin until it times out. If I want something to break right away, I use an invalid IP like 0.1.1.1.
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