Dev builds a terminal 'black hole' that warps your code until you take a break

petewoodbridge · x · 2026-09-02

A Ukrainian developer built a black hole in his terminal to force himself to take breaks: the longer you work without stopping, the bigger it grows, warping your code with gravitational lensing. Rest, and it shrinks back.

Rather than a timer-based reminder, it weaponizes visual distortion of your own work as the pressure to step away — a clever gamified take on the break-reminder genre that's been making the rounds in dev circles.

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