Xcode Supported Again

Ever since Apple disabled plugins in Xcode, we’ve been looking for a way to still show your code stats for Xcode without a plugin. Now, we’re happy to announce a native Mac app that adds back support …

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Create Invoices from your WakaTime code stats

As a freelancer, I’ve spent years juggling multiple projects, filling out invoices, and trying to keep track of how much time I spend on each task. This often resulted in me forgetting some billable h…

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GitHub adds WakaTime as Secret Scanning Partner

We’re proud to announce GitHub has partnered with WakaTime to scan for leaked api keys and other secret WakaTime tokens. WakaTime tokens allow users to programmatically access their WakaTime code stat…

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The Currently Focused File's Expert

We’re proud to announce a new feature for our IDE plugins that answers a common dev question: Who’s the expert on this code? From now on, the name of the team member who has spent the most time coding…

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ChatGPT Prototyped Our New Feature

Intro. I’m naturally a skeptic about OpenAI and ChatGPT, probably because I still think of AI as simple supervised machine learning with markov models. That’s why it’s taken me a few months to try out…

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WakaTime 2022 Programming Stats

Happy New Year! In 2022, more than 400k developers spent a combined 43 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime plugins. The average person spent 46 minutes per day programming. Each year we r…

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Building a Distributed Task Queue in Python

Why not just use Celery/RQ/Huey/TaskTiger?. Unfortunately, WakaTime has been using Celery for almost 10 years now. During that time I’ve experienced many critical bugs, some still open years after bei…

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Code Insights

Do you know which day of the week you code the most? How about how many hours you code per day on average? How does your coding activity look over the last year? These are the types of questions we’re…

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Custom Project Colors

Here at WakaTime we’re always looking for ways to improve the developer dashboards and UX. That’s why we’ve added the ability to set custom colors for your projects. Now, if you select green for Proje…

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The End of Atom

Today GitHub announced it will archive Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022. Why?. Development on Atom has been slowing for a while now. We see…

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