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We had a work requirement to start logging hours in Jira. I hated having the website open, it was slow to find the Jira I was working on, find the link for logging hours and adding a comment. I wanted a desktop app that had a list of issues assigned to me with buttons to add comments and work log hours.

I messed with Tkinter but was struggling for awhile just getting it to look…nice. I stumbled on PySimpleGUI and suddenly I was flying. Setup the hooks to the Jira api and I had what I wanted. Was a great project to learn UI development.

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It seems that Jira is so unbearably universally slow that lots of people tries to interact with it via some custom made tool.

A friend of mine told that one of his jobs he developed simple internal Qt client to perform basic tasks in Jira.

And when I was required to track my tasks in Jira I created a bunch of custom console scripts make all changes via https://github.com/go-jira/jira .

> We had a work requirement to start logging hours in Jira

They told us they'll start doing this at my job. I started looking for a new one.

Logging detailed hours is now basically a requirement nationally in the US because of the messed up change to the tax code that makes companies separate out maintenence development from greenfield development.

My workplace has this as a requirement for a legal reason and we recently switched from Jira to the equivalent MS timesheet platform and it’s way worse. The other side of the grass isn’t always greener

The other side that's greener is a workplace without the inane requirement of logging hours.

In my industry/workplace it’s the norm but the work I do is very cool and I don’t have to work crazy hours/the pay is decent so it’s not that big of a deal

Do you have the sources for this application available somewhere? I was considering writing something similar just this week. So an already available application where I just point it to the right instance would be amazing

I’ll see if I can publish it. It’s not proprietary but I just have to get the blessings first.

Is it learning UI development though? Does any of this translate or scale to more demanding projects?

30% of all software engineering is scaling things that werent designed for scale

Before you learn React, you should learn html and JavaScript and before you learn those, you should know how to read. Every skill builds on the next. For me, having a positive experience with this led to more positive experiences with MAUI and GTK. I’m not writing out the most scaled out projects - I’m just having fun learning.

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