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Show HN: I built a smart blocker after destroying my dopamine baselinehttps://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/memento-mori/fhpkanfhfplcfpmklplbbenimajbahimI'm a solo dev. A few years ago, I got addicted to Reddit. Spent months in that loop.Being a programmer, I thought I'd be clever. Redirected Reddit's domain to nowhere in my DNS file. Worked great until I'd just... open the file and undo it 20 minutes later.So I made it irreversible. Locked the DNS file so it can't be edited unless I boot my Mac in safe mode. And if I do that, there's a script that instantly locks it again. Haven't used Reddit since last year.Problem solved, right?Wrong. I just replaced Reddit with Twitch and YouTube. Started keeping streams running in the background while I coded. This went on for almost a year.It killed my ability to focus. If you know about dopamine, you know your brain releases it when it wants you to repeat an activity. The constant background streams destroyed my dopamine baseline. When I tried to code without anything running one day, it felt genuinely weird. Hard problems that used to be interesting just felt like grinding.I tried blocking TwitNov 2, 2025 5:47 PM
