I needed an application that would block sites which distract me. However, none of the existing solutions I found solve this problem.
This is almost wholly vibe coded and then manually modified for specific features and to avoid specific problems.
Given the control that Linux offers for root, it's hard to make something that really block everything. However, it is possible to make it very tedious to break out. That's what this application does.
I've often found that there are liminal moments where I make the wrong decision in a fog of distraction. Having someone, or if not possible, something that makes it hard to make the wrong decision, lets me get back to work.
That's what glocker tries to do.
A tool that I've found which does this reasonably well is plucky. However, the strategies it employs are not particularly transparent and it's tedious to get it to work. It also has a dependency on a browser and doesn't support firefox which is what I use. I opened a support case and was told that my configuration wouldn't work. Hence, I let that go.
Another one is Accountable 2 you, but I couldn't get it to work so I let that go too.
This is my attempt and if it solves my problem, I'll try to make it a hosted service.
