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blog Attempting a Windows Service

On my Mac, I wrote a small nagger app to help remind me when I may have extended a break too long. It is connected via mqtt to a hardware bell I have on my desk.

Recently I have been spending a bit too much time in Factorio so wanted to see if I could make a similar version on Windows.

I have not previously used my Windows PC for development (I do all of my work on MacOS or Linux), so the first step was to install VSCode, uv , and git. This was not particularly difficult and recently it seems like installers automatically handled updating PATH for powershell.

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