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While browsing a community today, I came across a VS Code plugin shared by a programmer that tracks how much time a developer spends writing code each day. It even visualizes the statistics in neat charts—super fun!
At first, I thought this plugin was only available for VS Code! But when I followed the official website and opened it on my computer, wow—amazing! It supports most of the popular development tools on the market.
It even supports text editors like Sublime Text and TextMate, as well as Terminal. Impressive! As a full-stack engineer, I’m covered—front-end, back-end, all editors and tools are supported!
You just need to install this WakaTime plugin into your development tool or editor, and then you don’t have to do anything else. It automatically tracks your coding activity and sends the data to its servers, generating beautiful charts to display the statistics.
Something like this:
But it doesn’t stop there—it also has a leaderboard ranking all users based on their total coding time. Like so:
The leaderboard provides quite comprehensive stats—not just rankings and total hours, but also average daily coding time, and which programming languages users work with most. Pretty thorough.
On each user’s personal profile page, you’ll find additional interesting statistics:
For example, breakdowns of time spent per programming language, per development tool, and even per operating system.
So this is essentially a tool that tracks how much time programmers spend coding!
In other words: This is literally a programmer supervisor’s dream tool! If your boss finds out about it, you won’t be able to slack off at work anymore.
Of course, the idea of your boss using it to supervise you is just a joke. We developers use it for fun—to track our own coding time. It actually works really well, and at the very least, it serves as a record of personal growth.
Finally, here’s the official website: https://wakatime.com/. Feel free to check it out, and install it according to your needs and preferred tools.
And one last thing—shh… I bet none of you will dare share this article on WeChat Moments. You’re probably afraid your boss might see it.