Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by jonathanyc » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:13 AM UTC

A friend told that at the trading company he worked at, traders set up distinct sounds for alerts.

I was hoping someone with a more direct source would comment in the thread but a quick Cmd-F doesn’t turn up anything!

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

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Post by pornel » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:14 AM UTC

On macOS, when I run a long script I add at the end:

    say done

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

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Post by rerdavies » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:19 AM UTC

I would really really like a VSCode extension that went "bing" when a build finishes. I think that would seriously boost my productivity.

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

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Post by sleepybrett » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:27 AM UTC

I do

`stupidlylongrunningcommand | say 'stupdily long running command complete'` a lot.

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

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Post by pigcat » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:29 AM UTC

Here's my very simple solution

Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc

alias alertme='printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a; sleep 0.1; printf \\a'

I add this after longish tasks - eg:

python longtest.py; alertme

seeddb; alertme

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

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Post by gnarlouse » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:42 AM UTC

I have a completely local dev environment for a cloud based project. It requires me to stand up a few things so I can mock resources like Google Cloud. It can sometimes take a bit to populate all the customer config, depending on the machine I’m using anywhere from 5 sec to 45 sec. I think I’m using systemd to pop a notification at the end of a lengthy start up script For everything.

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

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Post by ycombinatrix » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:46 AM UTC

i change the default windows beep, does that count?

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

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Post by kjs3 » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 3:20 AM UTC

I don't hate my coworkers that much.

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

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Post by tdeck » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 3:39 AM UTC

Now that you mention it, OpenSCAD makes a sound when it's done rendering which I find very helpful. Sometimes it takes several minutes and I usually want to queue up a print right when it's done.

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

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Post by frantzmiccoli » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 3:49 AM UTC

I have scripts that run in the background to check for the health status of some systems I am monitoring. I use a program to display results on my wallpaper and I trigger a "say" command if it fails.

I also commonly use a "say" command to just get notified when a long running command is done.