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New comment by drybjed in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

drybjed — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:22:41 +0000

What do you mean? Catcholic Church has records, did they just came up with something about a nonexistent Pope Joan out of thin air? How could they...

New comment by drybjed in "Running out of disk space in production"

drybjed — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:26:33 +0000

Make sure your /tmp is on disk and not a tmpfs, like in recent Linux distrubitions.

New comment by drybjed in "Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space"

drybjed — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:37:04 +0000

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809916

New comment by drybjed in "European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware"

drybjed — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:29:13 +0000

This could be implemented via Delay-Torelant Networking protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking

New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:52:04 +0000

The project is up on GitHub, here's Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:51:45 +0000

The project is up on GitHub, here's Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:51:18 +0000

The project is up on GitHub, here's Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

Show HN: Chimed – wind chimes in your Linux environments

drybjed — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:49:28 +0000

Have you ever played a game or watched a TV show/movie where certain actions like button presses or other events produced different sounds? This is usually done for audience's benefit (more action on screen) or in a game, to enforce the game loop. I wondered if sound effects could be useful in a work environment, in my case `vim`, to influence my brain in a similar way a game loop does things, and make working more "interesting" than procrastination. So I wrote 'chimed', a Python daemon that lets me play sounds on command and added `autocmd` options in `vim` to play sounds when entering/leaving Insert mode or command line, adding text, yanking, etc.

The idea is simple - load small `.wav` files into memory to make latency as small as possible and play them when certain events occur on inputs (and learn how daemons work in Python). Currently the only input is a FIFO, daemon expects specific configurable strings and plays a set of sounds found on https://freesound.org/. This could be expanded in the future to inputs over UDP or TCP, I had also an idea to create a set of process threads which could listen for certain interrupts and play a specific sound, like a set of "bells" in a "wind chime", which could be activated randomly. I'm sure many more ideas could be implemented later.

You can find `chimed` on GitHub, it's also available on PyPI as `chimed`.[1] I tested the installation using `pipx` in a clean Debian Bookworm environment, but if there are issues with installation please let me know in the comments. To integrate it with `vim` you can use an example configuration file [2]. See the README.md file for more details.

[1]: https://pypi.org/project/chimed/0.1.0/

[2]: https://github.com/drybjed/chimed/blob/master/lib/vim/vimrc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

Points: 6

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New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:42:56 +0000

With a daemon approach and clever integration within applications that handle missing fifo correctly, all you need to do to get rid of the sounds is just stop the service. And it's also configurable, so you can set what actions actually do produce sounds.

New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:40:44 +0000

Maybe. :-)

New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:40:22 +0000

I'll set it up on GitHub in 1-2 days and publish it on Hacker News.

New comment by drybjed in "Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?"

drybjed — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:56:18 +0000

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 .wav files into memory to make latency as small as possible, and listens for interrupts as well as reads from a fifo. Other programs can send commands to it to play certain chimes on demand. In ~/.vimrc I added autocommands on certain actions - buffer write, enter/exit Insert mode, enter/exit command line, text change, etc. to send commands to my daemon. Now, when I use vim, I get audible feedback of my actions during writing. Since this is all in a separate daemon done in an UNIXy way, adding support for this in other applications should be easy enough if I want to.

If there was interest, I think that I could clean up the project a little and publish it, including a set of free .wav chimes to use.

New comment by drybjed in "Why are we templating YAML? (2019)"

drybjed — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:27:34 +0000

YAML, TOML and JSON can be ingested to represent the same data structures internally, it's just a few lines of code to decide which load() function should we use for a particular file. Why not support all three formats in your applications for configuration and just let users decide, which one they want to use? Put a 'config.json' in '/etc/app/conf.d/' and you get the same data, as with 'config.yml' or 'config.toml'. Then users can use whichever format they prefer for the input data.

New comment by drybjed in "Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear"

drybjed — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:05:41 +0000

"The Entire History of You" [1]

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/

New comment by drybjed in "Could the Universe be a giant quantum computer?"

drybjed — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:47:23 +0000

Sounds like the "Dark" TV show on Netflix.

New comment by drybjed in "Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after 60 years"

drybjed — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:55:48 +0000

This ship was the inspiration for the MS Curie vessel in SOMA.

https://soma.fandom.com/wiki/MS_CURIE

New comment by drybjed in "AMC Says More Than 20k Have Booked 'Barbie'-'Oppenheimer' Double Features"

drybjed — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 07:31:10 +0000

The response of both communities for that was amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4lz8MN6MQA

RFR: Left and Right Neural Networks – Inspired by Our Bicameral Brains (2021)

drybjed — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:17:05 +0000

Article URL: https://wba-initiative.org/en/research/rfr/rfr-left-and-right-nn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35959372

Points: 1

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New comment by drybjed in "How Wolfenstein 3D shocked the world, 30 years later"

drybjed — Fri, 05 May 2023 17:56:29 +0000

Deep dive on the Wolfenstein 3D by Ahoy is worth watching, if you're interested in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSb87DC-PtA

New comment by drybjed in "'Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes"

drybjed — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 22:51:11 +0000

Who knew that The Congress (2013)[1] would be so prescient...

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/