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telepath-logger
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nwinter / telepath-logger

telepath-logger

A happy Mac keylogger for Quantified Self purposes.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
308GitHub stars
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What it is

A happy Mac keylogger for Quantified Self purposes.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-11-19 19:19:01 UTC to 2014-06-19 20:51:42 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 182013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 32014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 16

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 182013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 252013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 22013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 92013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 162013-12-16 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 232013-12-23 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 302013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 62014-01-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 132014-01-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 202014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 272014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 32014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 102014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 172014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 242014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 32014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 102014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 172014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 242014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 312014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 72014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 142014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 212014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 282014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC000
May 52014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC000
May 122014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC000
May 192014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC000
May 262014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 22014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 92014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 162014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC101

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I ended up spending an embarrassing amount of time on the post processing because I didn't spend enough time on setup ahead of time :) I used https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger to take screenshots. I meant to have it take a screenshot of my top monitor only, and do anything sensitive on my laptop screen, but I didn't configure it correctly, and wound up with screenshots of my active window only, so I had to do some censoring, e.g. when I needed to edit our keys file, or when I blurred out the screenshot when I had to do some customer support.
In Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding
Here's the code: https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger I initially wrote it as an self-tracking activity logger with no interface, but when I went to do the time-lapse video, I added the HUD UI and made it save screenshots at regular intervals. The HUD is actually showing on my screen at all times, so it gets included in the screenshots. From those screenshots, I just used ffmpeg to compile a video. I haven't written this for anyone else to run it, but if you're running Mavericks, you could try! You'd probably want to cut out some of the stuff, like the part that shows the work graphs from my website. The stats get recorded by all of the TPTracker*.m code. For keystrokes and mouse movements, you just ask to get notified of all system events (the user has to enable assistive access for Telepath). For window switches, light levels, and
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webcam, you have to poll. GitHub, Trello, and Gmail are polling web APIs, reading the API keys from stupid config files in Dropbox. For tracking how many builds I've done, I wrote a hacky brunch plugin: https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-brunch . Current music comes from iTunes/Spotify distributed notifications, simple. Work hours and happiness/energy/health come from distributed notifications sent out by a Python script that parses my Emacs org mode files where I record these things whenever I save those files with Emacs after-save-hooks. So those would be unusable unless you were to modify the code to get some other way of doing happiness and mood. Same with the rightmost section: a web view showing the percentile feedback work graph from my website is not easily transferrable.
In The 120-Hour Workweek - Epic Coding Time-Lapse

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