I think it is quite funny they call it the Humble Freedom Bundle considering this: "Bitcoin payments have been disabled for the Humble Freedom Bundle."
I just look at my commit times
But my workflow is kinda weird, i change code and I commit which then pushes it to my development server. I do it this way because I always use different computers throughout the day/week. So that way I always have the latest version of my development code.
Then when I finnish a feature I push it from my dev repository to the test repository where I use git like it should be used. But because I have this development git repository it is easy to see my work times. I still want to automate it though, now i'm just starting up qgit and do the manual lookup for a week and bill that to my clients.
I do all my projects this way.
Also recently started using this:
https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy
It gives quite awesome data, and most of my workflow is known, so maybe I could hack something together that logs things it considers work (but since I change pc so often I don't know if that will really work). Should have a procrastination/work/documentation list for your browser though to make it more effective.
I agree it is stupid that data you enter into a service, which you cannot know if it will remain (and that means every service), you can't extract to do with it what you want (log it yourself). It just gives me a better feeling if I can extract my netflix watching habbits and ratings for my own usage instead of relying on their ways (but their way isn't bad).
Also I just recently tried Mopidy again, a year ago it would crash a lot and time outs and stuff, but now I have it running as my main MPD with MPDroid on my phone and also Mopidy-Spotify. It is really awesome! I can just use my own keyboard shortcuts again to prev/play/pause/next again which I always found a burden in the spotify client.
I'm with you on that Spotify C library, it would suck so much if they would EOL it without replacement.
Actually if you really like the vim keybindings you can set your bash to vi mode. That way with escape shift+i you get to the start of the line.
Or if you like to keep the emacs keybindings in your terminal (yep emacs). you could always do ctrl+x e this opens op your $EDITOR with the current text of the command line. Exit the editor and the text will be piped to bash. (Maybe not the correct terminology, but it gets executed by bash)
Oh how I love freedom.