{
  "id": 15186620,
  "title": "Keeping a browser timer accurate in background tabs (what I learned building ClockAura)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/keeping-a-browser-timer-accurate-in-background-tabs-what-i-learned",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-17T11:45:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/om_vaghani_9f90828ac042e7/keeping-a-browser-timer-accurate-in-background-tabs-what-i-learned-building-clockaura-3461"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "I run ClockAura , a free site of online timers: countdowns, a Pomodoro timer, a stopwatch, interval timers for the gym. The first versions had the bug I suspect every browser timer has at some point: start a countdown, switch to another tab, and it rings late. Sometimes minutes late. The bug wasn't in one line of code. It came from an assumption: that the browser keeps running your code at the…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}