[HN Gopher] Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
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Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (2018)
Author : thunderbong
Score : 188 points
Date : 2021-09-23 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| neutronicus wrote:
| Always good to see a "Fix 100% CPU Usage" commit message
| Johnny555 wrote:
| That update broke my workflow. I configured Slack to interpret
| a rapid CPU temperature rise as "send thumbs up emoji".
|
| (stolen from https://xkcd.com/1172/)
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I learned Rust by writing a game boy emulator. It always takes
| 100% CPU because that's apparently how VSYNC blocking works in
| SDL or something.
|
| But the actual effect never feels like the computer is
| dragging. Perhaps because multiple cores.
|
| It's better than a "fix 400% CPU usage" commit.
| cozzyd wrote:
| that can only be achieved by uninstalling slack
| lapetitejort wrote:
| However, pegging your CPU at 100% would make your computer seem
| busy, which matches the theme of the plugin.
| [deleted]
| tunesmith wrote:
| I saw the headline and got excited that someone wrote a modern
| talk/otalk/ytalk program... I miss being able to watch someone
| else's typos when I'm touch-typing.
| dmd wrote:
| I made that! http://typeto.me/
|
| (yes, http. https won't work. sorry. i'll fix it someday.)
|
| also, we would LOVE someone to fork this and/or take it over,
| we really don't have time to maintain it.
| tunesmith wrote:
| Ah so cool! That really took me back.
| craigkerstiens wrote:
| Having worked with Will for quite a few years, he has a great
| ability to create some impressive projects like this. Even his
| commit graph on his GitHub (https://github.com/will) has been
| consistent for I think 10 years now?
| lapetitejort wrote:
| Very clever of him to have Friday align with the horizontal
| strokes of W, I, and L. Ready Only Friday manifested.
| shoo wrote:
| consider paying a visit to Will's homepage:
| http://bitfission.com/
|
| Even though the site is under construction, it is still very
| nice, with some enjoyable tunes.
| volkk wrote:
| i clicked back to get back to HN after visiting and the music
| was still playing. oddly enough i didnt hate that.
| willlll wrote:
| Thank you. please don't try and right click to steal the
| source though
| tentacleuno wrote:
| It needs one of those things that alerts anyone who tries
| to right click :) An even better one would be to totally
| preventDefault oncontextmenu. That'll stop them!
| mcbishop wrote:
| I had a good laugh there, thanks.
| andjd wrote:
| It's pretty easy to spoof the commit graph on Github like this,
| since Github bases it on user-provided timestamps and does not
| question them.
| lapetitejort wrote:
| Will has a repository just for that:
| https://github.com/will/githubprofilecheat
| gruez wrote:
| >Even his commit graph on his GitHub (https://github.com/will)
| has been consistent for I think 10 years now?
|
| umm... https://github.com/will/githubprofilecheat
| craigkerstiens wrote:
| So it has been 10 years :)
| Zababa wrote:
| Looking at the repo and the tweet, this should be dated (2018).
| Which would explain a lot of things.
| dkdbejwi383 wrote:
| Which things, specifically?
| notyourwork wrote:
| Specifically that the year is 2021, not 2018.
| dang wrote:
| Ok, we'll put that up there.
| thatguy0900 wrote:
| Out of curiosity, how is is that you see these comments?
| Sebb767 wrote:
| HN has a few non-public mods, so probably one pings him if
| he doesn't find it himself.
|
| But I personally prefer the explanation that dang is
| omniscient ;)
| itisit wrote:
| Presence awareness is an insidious overreach IMO. Warms my heart
| to see petty rebelliousness automated in this way. I'd also like
| to see something that edits the same Slack message ad nauseam
| with banal remarks.
| Johnny555 wrote:
| I dunno, I find the typing notification useful in group
| discussions so I know that coworker A is about to say something
| (and I know that she's going to make the exact same point I was
| going to make).
|
| I find active/non-active presence helpful so I know whether or
| not to expect a reply soon.
| itisit wrote:
| I prefer to communicate asynchronously via text to keep
| myself and others focused on work. People become
| surprisiginly resourceful when they no longer expect or rely
| on realtime (or near to it) replies. To each their own, of
| course.
| Johnny555 wrote:
| That's what makes Slack presence so useful, I pause my
| notifications when I don't want to be interrupted -- others
| can see that in my presence (but if they really need me,
| they can choose to notify me anyway). So I can stay heads-
| down and work, but if something important happens, I'm
| still reachable. And at least in my company, people don't
| abuse do not disturb.
|
| Plus, I never need to wonder if it's safe to send a message
| to a coworker for their timezone "George is in Germany, am
| I going to wake him up if I send me a message now?" I can
| rely on him setting notifications appropriately.
| dilap wrote:
| Yeah, I've realized _nothing good_ ever comes from knowing when
| someone else is typing. As this rather extreme example
| illustrates.
| riversflow wrote:
| Why? You can easily tell if someone is paying attention if they
| are talking in person. This seems really selfish to me, I
| personally find it one of the best modern chat features. Then
| again, I grew up with it and have learned to be zen about
| several minutes of typing... followed by "k"
| itisit wrote:
| > You can easily tell if someone is paying attention if they
| are talking in person. This seems really selfish to me
|
| Privacy and concentration are selfish interests? Why not have
| a 9-5 webcam of yourself feeding into my surveillance
| dashboard? This way I can see my team hard at work as I would
| in an open office. They'll love that.
|
| The prior in-person work setup is not the ideal nor the
| standard. I don't need or expect others to pay attention to
| what I'm saying right when I'm saying it unless there's real
| urgency. We're all IP-enabled meat functions now; there's no
| going back.
| bentcorner wrote:
| Pidgin has a feature that notifies you when someone starts
| typing at you or goes from "Away" to "Online". Kind of weirds
| people out when you message them _just_ before they message
| you, or you message them the instant they sit down at their PC.
| jedberg wrote:
| "Everyone loves it so far and doesn't find it annoying at all!"
| teeray wrote:
| Cool, now I want one that will suppress these so I can write in
| peace without the other person wondering why it's taking me so
| long to write.
| lopatin wrote:
| You wrote code for with the only potential benefit of
| (successfully) making us lol. All I have to offer is an upvote.
| binwiederhier wrote:
| Since we're talking about stupid Slack bots, I feel compelled to
| mention my stupid bot:
|
| REPLbot [1] is a Slack/Discord bot for running interactive REPLs
| and shells from a chat.
|
| It is fun and marginally useful. It supports sharing your own
| terminal in Slack too.
|
| [1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/replbot
| fdr wrote:
| My favorite WillSoft so far is his emoji film renderer.
| https://youtu.be/v32XHJxljKI?t=876
| alex_c wrote:
| This is pure, distilled, 100% evil. I love it.
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