Swans is good for programming. And good for gnosis.
I occasionally have I Am A Tower on a loop when I really need to break through some kind of mental / coding block.
Music for Programming
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#102It's unsurprising to find lots of ambient / electronica here, and generally I'm the same, but I do occasionally like really loud punk or rock if I need some motivation, like the album Feel The Darkness by Poison Idea, or as I said in another comment, I Am A Tower by Swans on a loop. Generally I get my best work done when I can lock into a single track and have it on repeat.
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#103Shoutout to SomaFM's Defcon Radio which has been my go-to programming music for years now. Not too dissimilar to the stuff found on this site. https://somafm.com/defcon/
My defaults are Drone Zone, Synphaera, and The Trip.
These three are very similar to what Defcon sounded like before around 2023 when they started adding more generic hip-hop influenced beats.
Defcon can be alright, but about 25% of their playlist will suddenly take me out of a flow state due to vocals or some obnoxious rhythmic detail.
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#104I’ve found instrumental + slightly repetitive tracks work best for me — anything too dynamic pulls my attention away.
Lately it’s been a mix of ambient electronic and lo-fi, especially for longer deep work sessions.
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#105Can we play it for my LLM?
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#106I'm well aware that I'm in the minority, but I have never been able to focus on anything - especially programming - other than in absolute, total silence. (Yes, I'm an only child.)
I don't know if you're in a minority. I think people just don't like a boring answer like "silence".
I was raised in a big family, and I prefer silence when I need truly deep focus. From my experience in open floorplan offices, a majority don't break out the headphones until it gets noisy enough. Some people would even come in early or stay late for exactly this reason.
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#107While I'm not surprised at the general tastes here in the comments (as I mostly share them), I am surprised at the lack of any mention of classical?!
Johann Johannsson and Max Richter are my go-tos.
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#108In the morning I listen to chill electronic music without lyrics: Tycho, Emancipator, Blackmill, Jon Hopkins Later in the day I listen to more energetic electronic music (a lot of which is from the Hotline Miami soundtrack): M|O|O|N, Dan Terminus, Carpenter Brut, Daniel Deluxe, 1788-L, Pendulum
Carpenter Brut and a ton of caffeine was vibecoding before LLMs.
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#109I haven't played the game, but I like to have Baldur's Gate 3 soundtrack in the background sometimes (can be found on YT).
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#110Illuminoids, has to be.
https://archive.org/details/IlluminationRadio
Pick an episode with your rng of choice.