A hacked-together node.js alarm clock

README.md

BASICALLY I FORGOT TO FINISH DRYING MY SHEETS

so I'm sleeping on the couch

and I need an alarm clock

and my regular alarm clock is in the other room.

So, I wrote one.

alarm.js

var spawn = require("child_process").spawn;

var time = process.argv[2].split(':').map(Number);

function checkTime () {
  var now = new Date();

  // Formatting is garbage for single digit times
  console.log(now.getHours() + ':' + now.getMinutes());

  if ((now.getHours() >= time[0]) && (now.getMinutes() >= time[1])) {
    spawn('google-chrome', [ 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmid9MlFSw' ]);
    setInterval(function () {
      console.log("WAKE THE FUCK UP");
    }, 1000);
  }
  else {
    // I don't need that much granularity.
    setTimeout(checkTime, 1000*60);
  }
}

console.log("Setting alarm for: "+time[0]+":"+time[1]);

checkTime();

I usually just use at with mplayer. It Just Works (tm). But this one is pretty neat :).

Also, I like the third line. It somehow feels awesome.

I'd forgotten about at.

I'd forgotten about at.

Then people started to write everything into JavaScript.