Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Music while in a coding session... Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:51:58 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:51:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3f8b7cebb49a7a47651d12f9ce849b53"; logging-data="2111485"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18mIWabui36Abgj8SXohC2WGZr4mgHsuA0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wo9W+Y0cYkBF0k2IVx213rFmDHw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3265 On 7/17/2024 7:01 AM, Pierre wrote: > In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >> On 7/16/2024 7:18 AM, Pierre wrote: >>> In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>> Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30 >>>> hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this >>>> old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code >>>> adventures for sure: >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE >>>> >>>> Just wondering... :^) >>> >>> I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code) >>> listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre. The music was recorded to >>> cassette from CD, as our only CD player was in the lounge Hi-Fi stack. Through >>> my Commodre Amiga, SGI IRIX and GNU/Linux coding years I would still listen to >>> TD and JMJ to get into the 'zone'. My TD and JMJ CDs are now ripped as flac >>> files on my GNU/Linux PC and played using cmus. >>> To quote Galen Erso, "It's a peaceful life." >> >> A good friend way back then, 80's, with the first name of Chris, >> strange, well, his Dad must of worked for Apple or something. He had a >> lot of of Apple computers. Mac's, Apple ii's, ect... A library of games, >> ect... Programming at his house was fun. His Dad was into classical >> music, not really 80's soft rock. He would play it loud, not light. And >> would sometimes watch me code. Wow. Hid Dad used to love playing this: >> >> Fwiw, all of the visuals in here are from my C++ code: >> >> (Moonlight Sonata) >> https://youtu.be/DSiWvF5QOiI >> >> (Ride of the Valkyries) >> https://youtu.be/QFPSYsYUKBA >> >> I worked hard on those. Some hours on and end until everything was right. > > Awesome fractal effects. Thanks! And thanks to C++. Here are the results of some of my opengl, GLSL, and C++ work along with the music is mine as well good ol MIDI, lol: (Fractal Boom Box) https://youtu.be/n13GHyYEfLA