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Life & fun · July 9, 2014

Punchclock

Checkin to work automatically with iBeacons

Punchclock launched on July 9, 2014 with 123 votes, #169 of 2,263 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Sometimes at Panic we build internal stuff that never sees the light of the outside world. This is one of those projects: an automatic in/out tracker for the Panic Team. OK, sure, there’s not that many people that work here so it’s not a huge issue for our team, but it still seemed like something interesting to try. I originally hacked together an in/out tracker that used a combination of SNMP, ARP table lookups, and plain old port scanning to figure out who was theoretically “in”. It wasn’t so reliable and was eventually removed from our Status Board . What I didn’t know was that Apple would soon deliver a solution to our (not-so) mission-critical problem. With the…from panic.com

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