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

Post by jcims » Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 12:23 PM UTC

kleiba wrote: post #28

The dude in the cubicle next to mine used to use sound effects extensively, but he died a mysterious death a while ago...

Post by shae » Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 12:27 PM UTC

Post by shae » Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 12:29 PM UTC

shae wrote: post #33

I have both sounds and visual for process success or failure from the command line https://github.com/shapr/bloohm

Post by Rygian » Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 12:29 PM UTC

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #14

It isn't exactly what you have in mind, but I use `play` as well as a terminal theme color change to tell me when I'm using one or another language's keyboard layout. If you put & in front of play, you can make chords. Here's an example: # Define notes for major seventh chord starting on A 440 A=440 C_SHARP=554.37 E=659.25 G_SHARP=830.61 if [[ "$layout" == "Finnish" ]]; then # Play a major seventh chord ascending kit…

Post by voytec » Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 12:37 PM UTC

hobabaObama wrote: post #21

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'

    function waitfor(){ sleep $1; say "Task $2 is probably done now"; }