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

Post by Anon_troll » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:08 PM UTC

BtM909 wrote: post #311

gorkish wrote: post #132

From [1] The story of PING: ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure. [1] https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~m…

Also reminds me of that old website where people could send text messages to (before Twitter existed). There was this story of a person who could ping a machine and he knew it was in his house, but for the love of God couldn't find the machine. It's a very short story, but he ends up looking at the pings not knowing where this machine is runnning.

Post by layer8 » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:17 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #182

gorkish wrote: post #132

From [1] The story of PING: ping goodhost | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | vocoder He wired the vocoder's output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting "Ping, ping, ping..." once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that's how he found the intermittent failure. [1] https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~m…

macos has the "say" binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this

Post by a_crowbar » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:39 PM UTC

benjaminoakes wrote: post #174

drybjed wrote: post #56

This sounds like an idea borrowed from games or other media where doing certain actions results in an audible feedback. This is often done for the benefit of the audience, or to enhance the gaming experience, but I had an idea to implement this in my workspace to somehow influence my brain and make it more enticing to write code and somehow beat procrastination. I wrote a Python daemon which on startup loads small .w…

Related: Juice is the non-essential visual, audio and haptic effects that enhance the player's experience. https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice

Post by mrbombastic » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:54 PM UTC

tylerc230 wrote: post #134

mattlondon wrote: post #120

Something I have often thought about for years but never implemented was "sound logging" where you get specific points of your code to play audio clips or tones instead of/as well as logging to console etc. The idea being that you can test the app.and hear the sound logs going off as you go. In a tight loop that executes quickly I would hope that you could hear something "being off" in the same way that a mechanic ca…

Xcode has this functionality. You can attach a system sound to a breakpoint. I used it exactly once when I was trying to determine if two events always happened in the same order and were always equally spaced in time. It worked well but drives you sort of mad after a while.

Post by wackget » Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

picometer wrote: post #227

A while back I prototyped (very roughly) an auditory equivalent to “syntax highlighting”, using ambient tones and white noise, rather than discrete beeps/sound effects. [1] I’m actually revisiting this project right now! I’m reimplementing it in Rust and also exploring different ways to communicate parser state and other contextual information through sound. [1] http://marycourtland.github.io/AuralJS/