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daghoidahl | 3 years ago | on: Peep: The Network Auralizer

It was called choir.io. It allowed you to translate streams of events into sounds. You would categorise your events into a matrix of good-neutral-bad with different levels of severity, and point them at choir.io. The service would then play samples that fit the category in a web client. There were different sound themes as well.

They probably couldn't make it pay, and it disappeared, but I sorely miss it. Would have been nice if it was open sourced.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180917233517/https://corte.si/...

daghoidahl | 6 years ago | on: Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces

I agree completely. Elastic tabstops are such an elegant solution to the whole debate. It turns the tab character into what it should be semantically, a character to denote alignment, just as it is used in a wysiwyg word processor.

When supported by the editor, it also allows the user to align columns using a proportional font instead of the fixed-with fonts we have to use now.

The concept has been discussed on HN earlier, but the accessibility argument is something that I hadn't considered or seen anyone discuss.