It’s more than just the commit count I identify myself as a , who’s trying to settle in the community, work with people who have cracked the “code” before me, strive, persevere and get to where I want to be. Junior Developer One of the most important things I do every single day is wake up and believe that I can do it. important thing, of course, is firing up my favorite editor and start programming my epiphanies. Another My best friend’s best friend has a rule: She doesn’t count the number of places she has been to. Instead, she counts the number of hours she spends there. When I asked her what the philosophy behind that was, she said, 60 seconds sound more than 1 minute. We were kids, and I had no idea what meaning she was trying to project and so I shrugged and said “What rubbish, how many times did you fail at Math?” All these things stay with you, and when you are ready, they hit you like a tracer bullet. When I realised what she actually meant, I decided to make a tool for developers to note down how many hours/minutes/seconds they spent programming. Introducing, CodeSpell CodeSpell is a simple node.js tool, that helps you “Record time spent programming epiphanies” which is just a fancy term I use to describe what I am doing with my life to my friends. CLI Once installed, which you can using npm or yarn(🎉), you can fire in a terminal and see your intangible day come alive. codespell CodeSpell In addition to showcasing a running timer for all your open editors, it gracefully outputs last day’s timespan as well. (It’s just . You can read that yourself, right?) JSON It helps me gain confidence, because I may not get a purple patch on ten pull requests every week, but I get to see ten hours I spent making a tool on Tuesday. definitely It’s on, yes, Github, and contributors and bug catchers are hereby solicited. 🎉 codespell — Github Windows is not supported( ), yet! But it’s coming soon. Sooner than your order from Australia. Note: well
