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Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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Post by hobabaObama »

cpach wrote: post #8

Sometimes when I wait for slow tasks to complete I do stuff like: sleep 900; say "Task X is probably done now" On Mac this works out of the box, AFAICT Linux has similar commands. https://ss64.com/mac/say.html https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/gnustep-gui-common/say....

thank you.

Just created an alias

alias waitfor='f() { sleep $1; say "Task $2 is probably done now"; }; f'

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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Post by louwrentius »

cpach wrote: post #8

Sometimes when I wait for slow tasks to complete I do stuff like: sleep 900; say "Task X is probably done now" On Mac this works out of the box, AFAICT Linux has similar commands. https://ss64.com/mac/say.html https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/gnustep-gui-common/say....

I used this for my pipeline that deploys a fresly baked raspberry pi image onto an SD card. It would remind me to remove the SD card and put it in the Pi, boot it and have Ansible continue to configure it. Felt awesome.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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Post by pseudo_meta »

I sometimes use sounds as opposed to print statements when debugging automations or certain UI behavior, e.g. to indicate whether a certain if-condition was triggered or not.

The advantage over normal print debugging is that you get immediate feedback, and do not need to switch to a console. This is also useful when it comes to debugging split second timings (custom window movement scripts).

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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Post by RGBCube »

HELL YES!

I actually did set my shell to spawn a background task to play the vine boom whenever I entered an invalid command.

Something like

    command_not_found() {
      pw-play /opt/boom.opus &
    }
And it actually improved my command accuracy by a lot. And it was super fun.

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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Post by wruza »

I buzz in ahk on timeout paths (e.g. dialog failed to show), also signal the end of lora training (half an hour+). Tried to voice over tsc -w errors, but that got old quickly.

I work in automation so sending an IM in case something’s wrong (or finished) is not a rare thing. May count as a sound too. I also shoot videos of everything a visual script does for debug (xvfb, ffmpeg).

Re: Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

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Post by donatj »

In around the year 2000, for career day I went to work with my uncle. He worked in IT for General Mills. Their office was very much a stereotypical poorly lit IT cave in the basement.

All their computers were a constant barrage of custom pop culture sound effects for every action. Minimize a window and a computer would emit like a "Ooh baby" clip for instance. Place had the tone of a morning radio show. Seemingly every action you could attach a sound effect to, they had. It would drive me insane trying to work like that.

Tech culture is very different from what it once was.

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