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I've found that it lulls me into being present in the moment. With any intake of caffeine, there is a tendency to start thinking about new projects, past mistakes, daydreaming, etc. White Noise has been a really good solution to that tendency for me.
https://github.com/tedmiston/zero-noise
Before that I used SimplyNoise (https://simplynoise.com) which is good, but still uses Flash and so is resource hungry if you're running on battery.
I also work from my home office as much as possible which has a very consistent AC fan that blocks most outside noise.
The only things on my desk every day are a minimal coffee mug and a wind-up timer for timeboxing.
I wrote a couple line bash script wrapper around a brown noise generator using sox + coreaudio. It works well for me, especially with overhear headphones. https://github.com/tedmiston/zero-noise Before that I used SimplyNoise ( https://simplynoise.com ) which is good, but still uses Flash and so is resource hungry if you're running on battery. I also work from my home office as much as possible which has a very consi…