Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video]

Re:Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video] by underyx on Thursday August 22, 2024 @01:29PM (#41322503)

There's a blog post from 6-8 years ago I can no longer find anywhere, where someone made node.js create similar ambient sounds and compared it to listening to hard drives doing mechanical work to understand what the computer was doing. Apparently it was actually useful to audibly hear when, for example, a request failed due to an authentication problem which had its distinct sound emerging from the pattern of code execution on that branch.

Does anyone have a link to what I'm talking about?

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Re:Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound [video] by openasocket on Thursday August 22, 2024 @04:08PM (#41323954)

I recall something like that. You might be talking about baudio: https://www.npmjs.com/package/baudio . I also recall seeing some website demonstrating the idea of soundifying a stream of incoming metrics/events so you could listen to it and your brain could sift through and automatically pick our patterns, changes, and anomalies. I think there was a demo using the twitter firehose as an example? But for the life of me I can't remember anything more than that.

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