Show HN: Coding.fm - Raining.fm for coders

by valceder • 14 years ago

81 68 14 years ago

amirf• 14 years ago

Cute! You should add the sound of "Happiness & Zen coding" (someone coding Ruby) and the sound of "Despair" (someone coding PHP), etc. :)

valceder14• 14 years ago

Nice idea! Interesting if everyone thinks "happiness & zen coding" is coding in Ruby?! And if all agree that PHP coding is "Despair"

shanelja2• 14 years ago

I disagree, I haven't had a single bad experience with PHP in years of use, maybe I'm just lucky or too close minded, but having used python, perl and ruby for programming too, I actually prefer PHP.

CodeMage2• 14 years ago

Except that happiness and despair haven't got much to do with the language. It's the work you do and the environment you're in that make you happy or unhappy.

brettbender2• 14 years ago

Have you ever used PHP before?

danneu• 14 years ago

Exactly. The tools themselves are rarely the source of anguish.

I'd MUCH rather write a language I don't enjoy in a clean, well-architected project than use my favorite language in a bandages-on-"quickfixes"-on-bandages project.

zerostar07• 14 years ago

You don't want to start this

benjlang• 14 years ago

Nice, great job!

valceder14• 14 years ago

Cheers! Glad you like it

shmuelix• 14 years ago

how geeks sounds.. i think this is pretty cool.. maybe you can also add the sound of bits moving around ;-)

valceder14• 14 years ago

hmmm... how would I make the sound of bits moving around... would probably end up sounding like rain!

ConstantineXVI2• 14 years ago

    cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp

Not necessarily the most pleasant sound. [Linux only AFAIK]

philsnow• 14 years ago

For this exercise, /dev/urandom might be better; reading /dev/random will block after the system's entropy pool is exhausted, right?

rprime2• 14 years ago

Interesting, I kinda liked it. But given I am a keyboard freak, the sound of an apple keyboard makes sad. Add a mechanical keyboard in there too, there's the real programming sound :).

Anyhow, great job!

valceder14• 14 years ago

Cheers!Happy you like it. I've totally got to get the sound of a mechanical keyboard :)

rprime2• 14 years ago

Great, I am looking forward to that!

creativityhurts4• 14 years ago

Pretty nice but you should really get a mechanical keyboard, that's the real coding sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY

valceder14• 14 years ago

Awesome! Thanks

diggan2• 14 years ago

Kind of off topic but where can I buy a Happy Hacking Keyboard outside the US?

creativityhurts4• 14 years ago

From here http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards...

http://elitekeyboards.com/support.php#2

alainbryden• 14 years ago

Burst out laughing when I clicked "Angry dev". Nice.

creativityhurts4• 14 years ago

Agree, "Angry dev coding" could easily be "Working with XML".

shanelja2• 14 years ago

"Angry dev coding" is "Arguing on the internet"

devgutt• 14 years ago

or CAPSLOCK on vim

munchor• 14 years ago

If you use a decent text editor (aka Emacs or Vim), XML will be no trouble to you, I'm sure :)

hardik988• 14 years ago

Really loved it !

I'm really intrigued as to how you got the sounds together ? Did you record them yourself ?

valceder14• 14 years ago

Thanks! Glad you loved it and,yes, recorderd right from Crossrider HQ with my iphone ;)

ChrisArchitect• 14 years ago

this is like a modern day audio boss button

sealo3• 14 years ago

Hi Neil from raining.fm angry dev ftw!

windsurfer• 14 years ago

Just FYI, your raining.fm page works fine on my mobile if I trick the site into thinking I'm a desktop (HTC myTouch running android 2.3.3)

sealo3• 14 years ago

Hi windsurfer, thanks for the heads up, we have found it works on some android devices but not others (it seems to like chrome browser on droid) . We didn't want to offer a crappy broken version to the masses, so we are working on native app versions for both IOS and Android, stay tuned :)

P.s. new desktop version will go live by this weekend :)

valceder14• 14 years ago

Cheers Neil! Really love raining.fm - was the inspiration for this :)

sealo3• 14 years ago

No worries at all mate, thanks for the props! We have rewritten a new version with some cool new requested functionality, just bug testing atm, planning to push live in few days ;) stay rainy and code on!

JamesLeonis• 14 years ago

Angry dev is definitely my favorite. It sounds like some of my late nights.

kintamanimatt• 14 years ago

It's missing some angry muttering!

thoughtpalette• 14 years ago

I laughed. Great idea!

jschuur• 14 years ago

I feel like there's not a lot of gaps between typing, even for the Monday morning coding. Either that, or I'm a really slow coder.

jedahan• 14 years ago

More hardcore : http://www.youtubemultiplier.com/503e2aac93368-realhackerkey...

brandoncapecci2• 14 years ago

Does anyone feel like they work more productively when listening to people bash their keyboards or is this more of a novelty thing? Personally, I can understand the rain sounds, this - not so much.

positr0n• 14 years ago

I think the site was made as a joke :-)

brandoncapecci2• 14 years ago

whoosh I guess I thought some people might enjoy the sound of other people at work? Rain sounds weren't exactly intuitive for me either living in Seattle. Thanks :)

Juuumanji2• 14 years ago

i thought this was silly until i let it play for about 20 minutes. it's strangely calming.

valceder14• 14 years ago

Nice to hear :) I'm assuming it was on "Monday Morning Coding" ;)

Juuumanji2• 14 years ago

Yep. I've had it running since.

agumonkey• 14 years ago

Next : Airplane engine cabin-muted samples ? (can be emulated with low pass filter on laptop fan, found that to be quite calming too, like thunderstorm noise)

gavinlynch• 14 years ago

Wow. Funny idea! :)

But honestly, I'm not sure if there is a less-soothing sound than someone cranking away at a keyboard. Takes me right out of my zone of concentration, and there is a reason I put on headphones :)

wccrawford• 14 years ago

Actually, I found the sound to be comforting. I miss working in an office with a team on site. Of course, I still can't go hang over their cubicle and ask them a technical question, but I only expect so much of that site. ;)

nedludd• 14 years ago

The guy I share a cube with has the loudest keyboard in history, or at least for me. Doesn't seem to bother anyone else. But it sets my teeth on edge.

So much so that I had to dig out my old noise cancelling, over the ear things. Now I can't hear anything else, but hey! :-)

MartinodF• 14 years ago

FYI, the link to raining.fm at the bottom of the page doesn't work :)

JBionics• 14 years ago

I came here to say that too.

The "Inspired by raining.fm" link, links back to coding.fm.

valceder14• 14 years ago

Thanks for that - will fix it right away!

akshayagarwal• 14 years ago

So I was sitting all alone in my large office at night, browsed Hacker News and as usual opened this in a new tab but did not really look at it becuase I was browsing some other article. Now suddenly I start hearing a slow coding sound coming out of nowhere, I looked around but there was none. The sounds still kept coming , I even went to look under the desks!! Thoughts of an office ghost started trembling in my mind but then I suddenly realised that those pesky sounds were originating from my Mac and I said W!!! Ghost inside my Mac! Holy Sh! With some courage I bothered to look around my tabs and then nailed on this monster. Great work guys! Would be hard to forget about those horrifying 10 mins!

valceder14• 14 years ago

Ha ha ha! Just glad you figured out it was from your computer and not some coder ghost haunting you!

TheFunkyMonk• 14 years ago

I love this.

My office is really quiet, putting this on alongside some music with my headphones is actually making me more productive!

valceder14• 14 years ago

Must try it with some music too! Glad you're enjoying it :)

dfischer• 14 years ago

This is freaking hilarious. Angry DEV all the way.

loceng• 14 years ago

They really need a Live Listener stat so you know who else you're coding with...

valceder14• 14 years ago

Nice one!

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