Workrave Reviews

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Workrave mentions (25)

• Do you find it DIFFICULT to take regular breaks behind your laptop?

  So, why not take a moment, install Workrave, and embark on a journey towards a healthier and more sustainable work routine? Your well-being is an investment that pays dividends in both personal and professional aspects of life. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Best Emacs tools and set ups for RSI…??

  Used https://workrave.org/ for a while. Source: 9 months ago

• The Most Important Coding Habits

  I can recommend workrave. It reminds me to take breaks and propose stretching or looking further than the monitor. https://workrave.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• What are some of the best and worst gaming systems and game genres for someone living with Carpal Tunnel?

  First, general advice: Get something like Workrave to automatically prompt you to take frequent short breaks. Source: about 1 year ago

• What open source software do you use to increase your productivity?

  Ironically, Workrave, which is a free, open-source Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) prevention app that tells you to take scheduled breaks and what not. Source: about 1 year ago

Geekbot mentions (13)

• Automating standups using GPT4 and Github APIs

  We think GitReport could replace standup apps like Geekbot. So we're making it into a product. More Git features are coming, like tracking issues and pull requests. Source: 9 months ago

• Agile / Scrum

  We run standups every day, however only 2x of them are a Teams call. The other 3 are run using a tool called Geekbot (Yes scrum masters do hate this) which is basically just a chatbot that sends you the standard standup questions and you can answer whenever you feel like it. This has helped our team heaps due to having such a huge mix of people in our team (Cloud Eng, Database Eng, Software Eng, Network Eng) that... Source: 12 months ago

• What do you really think of your daily standup?

  My new job recently pulled in https://geekbot.com/ to handle stand ups. Answer a couple basic questions when you login, and they’re all sent to a central channel. I’m not big on that type of communication in general, but it takes maybe 30 seconds each morning. Source: about 1 year ago

• As an IC, is there anything I can do about super cheerful team members using up meetings time?

  We use Geekbot to help standups. The feedback from each dev goes into a channel, then we talk about things that need to be addressed or things we're working on. Source: over 1 year ago

• Scrum Has Failed the Developers

  Back in 2005, I remember working on startups running on Scrum principles. It worked well at the time, we where able to ship, grow the team, and move forward with a nice few-features-per-week cadence, working remotely, on a small team; less than 10. Tt always worked fine, but very slow, as all-dev-things were at the time. I worked with ActiveColab in 2007, Skype 2007, Yammer 2009, Trello 2011, Pivotal Tracker 2013,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago