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Laurie Hérault
Personal blog · laurieherault.com/articlesproductivitywriting
Laurie Hérault's personal blog at laurieherault.com covers productivity and writing. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “A receipt printer cured my procrastination”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Laurie Hérault's posts as inspiration for DIY productivity tools, such as a thermal-receipt task printer. One post covers the video-game science behind curing procrastination.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
From chronic procrastinator to builder of tools to fight it. | Laurie Hérault - Articles and tools to fight procrastination
Most-linked posts?
- A receipt printer cured my procrastination3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-12
What Hacker News says?
Looking to create something just like this for chores at home. Inspired by https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-pri... And https://youtu.be/xg45b8UXoZI Hoping it will make chores more visible and fun to complete for the whole family. I picked up a used star tsp100 printer and usb 2d barcode scanner. Still looking for a backend though. Idealy with Homeassistant integration for automating todos tha…
Comment linking /articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination
on “I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file”Submitted A receipt printer cured my procrastination as a story · 1255 points
HN discussionInspired by this article by Laurie Hérault[1] which explains how understanding the science of video games helped them "cure" their procrastination, I built a simple CLI tool in Go to print those tasks and added a fun little twist, a "Pokemon roulette", of sorts. Code is messy since I built it thinking I'd just throw it into a dotfiles repository, but it works, which is what matters. I'll work on improving it after I…
Comment linking /articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination
on “Show HN: Taskemon, CLI tool to print task tickets with a thermal printer”Submitted Turn your phone into a productivity tool as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Make it Count – a daily email for fight procrastination as a story · 2 points
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