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Dev builds ICU for dying side projects with EKG monitors and on-chain pledges

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer created Life Support, a tool that visualizes GitHub repos as patients on EKG monitors, showing commit cadence as heart rate. It calculates a passion half-life of 23 days and offers a Solana-based defibrillator to pledge commits. The app turns abandoned projects into a gamified commitment device using blockchain.

Meridian48 take
Clever concept, but the blockchain gimmick may distract from the real value: a stark, data-driven mirror for developer procrastination.
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I Put My Dying Side Projects on Life Support — an ICU With Real EKGs, a Snowflake Lab, and an On-Chain Defibrillator →
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