Gulp - not sure we were ready for HN yet! At any rate, here's a blog post about what we're trying to accomplish with Choir:<p><a href="http://corte.si/posts/choir/intro/choir.html" rel="nofollow">http://corte.si/posts/choir/intro/choir.html</a><p>It's very, very early days yet, and we're sending out the first few invites today. If this intrigues you, and you'd like to pipe your own data to Choir, put your address down at <a href="http://choir.io" rel="nofollow">http://choir.io</a>.
This reminds me of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (by Douglas Adams) where one of the main characters created ad jingles and sounds for businesses based on their quarterly earnings and similar data. Well done!
This is the coolest idea I have seen in a long time. I really really really wish you the best success!<p>I signed up for the beta, and can't wait to try and use it to hook into alerts. I look forward to calibrating ambient frequencies that correspond to things like message rates or queue sizes. Imagine if you had a teapot boiling sound if a queue backs up. Of course you want to go tend to that! Brilliant.
I'm finding this very pleasant to listen to - going to use as coding background noise instead of white noise for a day and see how it pans out. There's something very satisfying about knowing the ambient noise is that of code being open sourced around the globe.
I'd love to use something like this as a background for getting work done, maybe with a different set of sounds. Definitely loving the key clicks and general "tech"-ness of the bloop theme, but the "intrusive" sounds when larger repos are touched kind of kills that use case.<p>Dream: Remove the "ignore small repos", change the sounds to be something a bit more neutral (foghorns are right out :P), and use volume instead of SFX for larger repos. Instant perfect programmer ambiance.
I was looking for something like this. I created an automated build script that rebuilds the project when any dependency file is saved. I wanted to be able to play a sound when the build was complete so I know it's safe to reload the project. I'm also excited about being able to hear if someone has pushed to the project so I know to pull. Hopefully I can use this.
Reposting from the other thread, which seems to be a bit dead:<p>Watching the github realtime activity with sound was mesmerising. I spent at least fifteen minutes listening to it.<p>You mentioned there will be Windows and OSX standalone clients coming soon. Will there be an API for writing clients?
Nicely done, requested an invite. The github firehose is a bit crazy, though quite amusing for a few minutes.<p>I could see myself using this for much lower frequency events, like customer conversion or sizeof(shopping_cart).
I <i>love</i> how you've solved the "constant scrolling preventing me from clicking that damn link that keeps flying by" problem. Really well done.