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4 sourcesI procrastinated so hard I built a proxy to stop myself from procrastinating
Hello fellow victims of their own attention span.
Every time I try to learn something useful, my brain decides to launch a completely unrelated side quest.
I’m not sure whether this is generational brain rot, my ADHD leveling up, or me simply being incredibly lazy.
The plan: review calculus for one hour.
The outcome: spend three and a half hours learning how nuclear submarines make oxygen.
So, naturally, instead of developing discipline like a functional adult, I procrastinated by building an entire app to manage the problem for me.
It’s a customizable forward proxy where you create rules as nodes, connect them visually into policy flows, and group those flows into different modes: https://github.com/Vaccarini-Lorenzo/ProductivityProxy
I originally made it for myself, but work and other boring adult responsibilities have eaten most of my
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free time. Rather than letting the project quietly rot on my computer, I’m putting it out there in the hope that someone smarter—or simply less busy—might turn it into something genuinely good.
Or maybe it’s already useful to someone. That would also be nice.
A couple of things worth knowing:
- It’s aimed at “power users.” Some nodes may require a bit of Python to define their behavior. Fortunately, we now live in a world where you can politely ask an LLM to write it for you.
The project is documented, and I’m planning to add an AGENTS.md file and agent-friendly APIs. Eventually, you should be able to describe the flow you want in plain language and let your favorite LLM handle the policies.
- It runs on top of mitmproxy, so you’ll need that installed, including its certificates.
P.S. The UI is built with Tauri. Automatic proxy configuration currently works only on macOS, and I’ve only tested it on Apple Silicon. On other platforms, you can still use it, but you’ll need to configure your browser’s proxy settings manually. Proper cross-platform support remains firmly in TODO territory.
I procrastinate by building tools to stop me from procrastinating: A sad story
Hello, fellow overstimulated kids
I don't know if it's something of my generation, my worsening ADHD or just laziness, but whenever I sit down and start studying something, magically, I find myself researching the most random shit ever.
Need to do at least 1 hour of Game Theory? Best I can do is 3.5 hours of WWII fun facts.
Anyways, as the lazy person I am, instead of finding the willpower to focus and get shit done, I made a customizable forward proxy. You can define your custom rules in nodes, arrange them visually in policy flows and bundle them into modes. You can find it here: https://github.com/Vaccarini-Lorenzo/ProductivityProxy
It's a project I built for personal use but, with work and shit, I don't have as much free time as I used to, so I hope someone smarter and with more time than me might just take it and make it good. Or may
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be it's just useful to someone as it is.
A few notes:
- It's a project thought for "power-users", you might need to write some (python) code in the nodes to describe their behaviour, but hey, just let a LLM do it for you: The project is well documented and I plan on bundling an AGENTS.md and expose agent-friendly APIs so that you can define your local flows in plain natural language and let your favourite LLM write the policies.
- It is built on top of mitmproxy, you will need it as dependency (as well as their certificates)
P.S.
It's a Tauri app. Right now the automatic proxy setup is macOS-only (I've tested on Apple Silicon). On other platforms you'd have to point your browser at the proxy manually, and cross-platform support is still a TODO.