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I built this because I couldn't see the time on my own screen

I work with my screen split most of the day — editor on one half, browser or terminal on the other — and somewhere in that layout the system clock in the corner either isn't visible anymore or is small enough that I still have to squint at it. I got tired of alt-tabbing just to check the time, so I built a full-screen browser clock I could park in a spare window: no ads, no signup, just open the tab and it's the time, big enough to read from across the desk.

It grew past one look pretty quickly. There's a classic seven-segment LED style, a mechanical flip-card display (split-flap airport board style — my favorite to look at), a retro 5x7 dot-matrix pixel grid that works well as a stream overlay, a two-tone neon gradient for a more decorative desk setup, and a real binary clock that shows the time as lit and unlit dots instead of digits. Each style has eight color variants, a 12/24-hour toggle, and a fullscreen mode, and the screen stays on the whole time instead of dimming while you're looking at it.

Once the clock face itself was solid, I kept adding the small tools I actually wanted sitting next to it: a countdown timer with an alarm at zero, a dedicated stopwatch with lap times, a browser alarm clock with night-dim for bedside use, a Pomodoro timer with adjustable focus and break lengths, and a world clock with a meeting planner for scheduling across time zones.

Everything runs in the browser — no account, nothing saved anywhere but your own settings on your own device, and it keeps working offline once you've loaded it once. If you're curious, it's at DigitalClock.

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