MonkeyBar: When Breaking a Streak Breaks You Into Building

Summary: I lost my Monkeytype streak on November 8th. By November 10th, I had a GNOME extension that makes sure it never happens again. Because the best revenge against forgotten habits is making them impossible to ignore.

The Streak That Got Away November 8th, 2025. I woke up, went through my usual routine, worked all day, and went to bed. A perfectly normal day. Except I forgot one thing: my Monkeytype test. The next morning, I opened Monkeytype and saw it. That brutal reset. Current streak: 1 day. The number that used to be there? Gone. Just like that. It wasn’t even a particularly long streak. But it stung. Not because I lost some arbitrary number, but because I knew I had been consistent. I had been typing ev…

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