todo.txt

Webnull

x make it append the shibboleth on first run
x make it blackhole the website
x make it not blackhole an already managed website
x make it unblackhole a site
x make it re-blackhole a site
x refactor the two methods, too much shared
x make it unblackhole a site for (5) minutes.
x make it catch ctl-c
x switch to the local dummy hosts when you pass an enviornment variable
x make it unblackhole all
x switch to command based UI
x update readme
x Add tests
x refactor, way too much shared code again.
    x add modify_body to ManagedHostfile
    x Managed hostfile should read on init and then store the head.
    x get printfunc from future
x list the patterns that actually matched
x better text for -a
x test denying a permaallowed site.
x test initial setup, an unmanaged hostfile.
x pretty time output
x make it unblackhole until tomorrow
x dont' crash on invalid hostnames, reject them properly.
x setup.py test
x get rid of janky setup.py !!(ugh, got to change macdev...)!!
x sleeping the machine makes it lose track of time.
    x made -am totally flail
* make it an installable python egg (write eggr?)
    * make it install locally too
x update README
x ---- release 1.0 ----
* upgrade to python3
    x change code to run under python3
    * need to change something about prereques, probably. Install process?
* track the time i spend with it unblocked, I would like to minimize that.
    * write a log in ~/Library/Application Support ? Or a dotfile at ~
    * func to show usage over the last two weeks.

BACKLOG
* if you run it and everything is already commented, maybe uncomment at the end? Might arleady do this...
* allow enabling multiple regexes at once.
* reset when broken
* setup venv?
* convert to python 3
* write a log of allowed times so that I can collect stats
* build it for python 2 & 3?
* add type information
* rewrite tests to be fast? -- get rid of watchdog.
* test timing stuff
    * suspend the process and see if it breaks right when you get back?
    * print out what time it is when done, that way we can see if it matched the estimate.
* should we error if you do "deny foobar"?
* refactor again
    * should pass the hostfile path into ManagedHostfile()
    * maybe more stuff can be put on as methods for ManagedHostfile()
* make sure that .'s in the search name aren't being used as . in the re
    * or do I want to go whole hog and let the sitename be a pattern? I'm injecting it into one...
* don't add www if there's already a subdomain
    * for subdomains, just put the subdomain, for hostnames put it and www
* could add short command names "d" and "a"
* add a "remove webnull" that removes the shibboleth and everything below
* maybe -a is actually just leaving the name field blank? not a flag
    * I like forcing it to be work. shouldn't be less work than picking a single site.
* make a man page
* write a dotfile so that when moving to a new machine I can bring it all along
    * ugh this probably makes concurrancy way more real.
    * might be nice because we can just rewrite the whole file every time instead of doing parts?
* don't do two reads everytime
    * maybe store the read in local variables.
    * done?
* switch from localhost addresses to invalid addresses.
* make not using sudo print a nicer error
* Could use a different method than fsevents
    * Maybe have webnull emit a signal every time it writes? Have Popen catch it?
        * That's not a thing, I dont' think.
    * Maybe just print our writes into stdout, then we don't have to wait?
        * probably with a shibboleth to parse out the writes.
        * thinks like dates will not work with the saver


BUGS
* If I close an iTerm2 window with it in it, it doesn't catch the signal
    * seems like it might not be catchable. I tried all the signals
    * strangely, it seems like it takes a couple seconds to send SIGHUP
    * This still doesn't work reliably.
* sometimes, it takes a minute for the website (twitter) to go away, do I need to kill some daemon or reset some cache or something?
    * Seems Safari related. pinging it or trying to open it in Chrome fails.
x webnull www.reddit.com doesn't strip the www. off
x If you -e a pattern that matches nothing, print an error and don't time


x manual testing of -t30 was dead on balls accurate.

UI
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Command based.

rn: deny/allow

webnull deny example.com
webnull d example.com ??

webnull allow [-tamf] example.com
webnull a example.com ??

webnull remove example.com

deny/permit
disallow/allow
blackhole/unblackhole
disconnect/connect/reconnect

usage: sudo webnull deny facebook.com
usage: sudo webnull allow facebook
usage: sudo webnull allow -a
usage: sudo webnull allow -am
usage: sudo webnull allow -t 30 facebook
usage: sudo webnull allow -f (f == forever, remove the listing from the managed set.)
    * should -f just permanetly comment it out or remove it from the list?
        * if commented out, we should have another command that removes it from the list...

default is 5 minutes
-t in minutes
--morning -m -- enable until tomorrow
-am == all until tomorrow

* we should only have 1 waiting at a time, so we write when we do this.
* file locking? possible?

* how do I solve having two different sites enabled in two different terminals?