Coding Stopwatch
About the Coding Stopwatch
Developers underestimate how long fixes take and overestimate how long focus lasted. A coding stopwatch lives beside the IDE - minimal digits, keyboard shortcuts, lap per ticket or per compile cycle - so standups and retros use numbers instead of vibes. Lap when you open a branch, again when tests pass, again when the PR is up; the trail exposes the debug hole that ate Tuesday afternoon. CI tells you pipeline duration; the stopwatch tells you human duration, including the three tangents before you read the error log.
How to use it
- Dock the stopwatch on a second monitor or transparent overlay corner.
- Start when you begin meaningful work on a ticket, not when you open Slack.
- Lap at branch open, tests green, and PR opened milestones.
- Stop when context-switching to another ticket or meeting.
- Save or note trails before sprint retro for estimation review.
Good to know
The stopwatch counts while this tab is open. A slept tab can pause or jump. For a race result you may need to keep the phone unlocked in your hand.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Coding Stopwatch free?
Yes. You can use it in your browser with no account and no download.
Does it integrate with Jira?
No native sync; use ticket IDs in notes and manual compare.
Keyboard shortcuts while coding?
Space, L, and R on supported layouts without leaving the editor.
Transparent over VS Code?
Use transparent stopwatch with window capture in OBS or PiP.
Will it slow my machine?
No meaningful impact; the page is lightweight.
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