WhiteProxy

I get distracted very easily, and when I am looking up something important, I don’t like spending my willpower avoiding distractions: facebook, my email, comics, youtube, twitter —— all the ten-thousand things. 

What could I do? I wrote a little proxy server that block all content unrelated to the task at hand. It even takes the time to look up related words, so that it won’t block anything important. It also only gives me ten minutes of access —- plenty of time to open some documentation, not enough time to open 50 tabs of vaguely related journal articles.

I don’t recommend using this all the time —- sometimes free association hyperlinking is very valuable —- but when the job needs doing, I don’t need distracting. So I threw together WhiteProxy.

Posted on 13 January 2011