pomd
pomodoro timer daemon
category: utility
finished: november 2023
languages: rust
github: exvacuum/pomd exvacuum/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 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 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 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