[an_ko]

This is great! Ambient data can be really powerful. I'd never thought about it before, but having a little sense for how many users are on my sites and what they're doing would be hugely motivating.

I once wrote a command-line program that would take the first n bytes of every file in the new directory and pipe them to sox to create a sound unique to the directory contents. It was good enough for a while that I could recognise projects I was working on by the sound of their root directories, but of course required headphones and the glitch sound was quite hard on the ears…

[tomfrew]

Thanks! I've had it running in the background for a few days and it's REALLY motivating to hear peaks in app useage.

Interesting... I'll have to play around with way to manipulate the sounds based on the data. Thanks for the feedback!