BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar

https://eieio.games/nonsense/game-13-breaktime/

by eieio • 2 years ago

213 15 2 years ago

Whimsy! Love it.

dmoy• 2 years ago

Haha that's awesome. Too bad Google doesn't seem to make official easter eggs that are as cool as this anymore (like the Google search zerg rush one)

eieio2• 2 years ago

don't think there's any chance of it happening but definitely daydreamed about getting it upstreamed after the Google Calendar twitter account posted about it! That'd be a ton of fun.

paulirish• 2 years ago

Funnily enough, we just added a _surprisingly_ similar easter egg to Chrome Devtools: https://x.com/nucliweb/status/1757506389495202000. I just had to comment now to assert that we had the same awesome idea. :)

eieio: your link to Juice it Or Lose It makes me so happy. For a decade I point people to that presentation. It's just perfect. Our easter egg is could afford some more juice though.. I might yoink some of your code. :) great stuff.

eieio2• 2 years ago

paul - really glad that you enjoyed the post and I appreciate that you appreciated me mentioning the talk! It's so good! It was great to get to revisit it and borrow from it so directly.

And that's a lovely easter egg! Had no idea that it was there. Agreed that it could use some more juice; yoink away :)

kefabean• 2 years ago

Now that’s what I call a productivity hack!

beretguy• 2 years ago

That’s awesome! I’d play it… if I wouldn’t refuse to use Google products.

brohoolio• 2 years ago

This is so great

d416• 2 years ago

Paddling a ball into a destructive path toward obliterating other people’s demand for my time is just the rando reminder of priorities in life I needed this week. Thank you!

Brajeshwar• 2 years ago

Is it just me but Google products such as Calendar, Sheets, and even Docs performance has deteriorated really bad in Safari. Of course, they work well in Chrome. I like to do quick tasks in Safari, my default browser, such as bricking meeting slots in the Calendar.

burkaman• 2 years ago

It's not just you, and it's not just Safari. I use Firefox for everything, but have to keep Chrome installed for the Google products I'm forced to use for work. I don't know if I can accuse them of intentional sabotage, but they certainly don't do performance testing outside their own browser.

devsda• 2 years ago

I don't use Google products in Firefox or other browsers often enough to notice or care about performance but some say spoofing the UA string to chrome fixes many of those issues.

I hope you've tried that.

kunley• 2 years ago

Best productivity app this year! :D

martin-adams• 2 years ago

Fascinating that even though those videos don't have sound, I hear the bashing noise in my mind's ears. This is referred to as vEAR, or “visually evoked auditory response.”[1]

[1]https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/syn...

BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar

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