chrisbolin

and if you're interested in the actual mechanics of detecting online / offline connection, look into navigator.onLine and "online" and "offline" events. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOn...

(We also use polling as a backup for browsers that don't support the above features)

déjà vu? last summer someone (not me!) posted my very simple demo of this concept (i called it "offline only"). based on the feedback i got here and other places, i decided to build a full magazine, with the help of a lot of other people.

this isn't another rant about internet addiction. it's an experiment with the current state of the internet and our society. over a dozen writers, poets, and artists contributed to this issue. we hope you like it, or at least find it mildly entertaining.

(on the tech side, it also uses a lot of newer web features, so it will not be kind to older browsers. sorry! there's only so much time in a life)

y'all have been very kind. the productivity tips are very helpful. here's my system:

- sit down at my desk with laptop and phone

- disable wifi on my laptop

- turn my phone face-down on the desk, muted, with wifi/data still on

This lets me check if I have any new messages via my phone, but it is a polling system vs an interrupt system. I have to opt in to check. And I am very aware that using my phone looks and feels less productive, so I try to avoid using it too long.

I've been able to be pretty productive (as an software engineer) with this system. I find that I have to reconnect on my laptop about every 30 minutes to do something or another. Of course, every day varies.

totally agree! maybe I was being too flippant :P

> Having the ability to take a problem, figure out what you don't know, reprocess those parts into a format that Googles™ well, filter out the noise from the results, and only then synthesize the information gathered

That's spot on.

thanks for the recommendation!

> I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article.

:) love it

a cron job to disconnect - love it! do you use the break to get up and stretch, too?