From: Zachary Vance <za3k@za3k.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:54:22 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Go screensaver
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Go screensaver
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+author: admin
+categories:
+- Non-Technical
+date: 2024-11-25
+tags:
+- hack-a-day
+- go
+- board games
+title: 'Hack-a-Day, Day 25: Go Screensaver'
+---
+
+Today I made a Go "screensaver".
+
+[![caption:  go game in progress](go-screensaver.png)](https://za3k.github.io/go/screensaver.html)
+
+You can see it [online here](https://za3k.github.io/go/screensaver.html). The source code is [on github](https://github.com/za3k/go).
+
+Games are taken from OGS, and played real-time. Provided are a selection of 1000 random games from OGS, a popular Go server. Games play in real time, the same as when they were originally played.
+
+I made this to have a screensaver for my mantel.
+
+![caption: go games play above my fireplace](go-screensaver-tv.jpg)
+
+Hope you enjoy.
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+---
+author: admin
+categories:
+- Technical
+date: 2024-11-25
+tags:
+- software
+title: 'Power Beeps'
+---
+
+One feature I really liked about older ThinkPad models was that when you plugged in power, it would give a little chirpy beep. Same when you disconnected it.
+
+The downside to system beeping is that it gets really annoying. I don't want a failed tab completion to go "beep" aloud, especially when I'm in public.
+
+As a result, I really, really aggressively turn off all kinds of system bells, etc. Sadly, I get no beeps either.
+
+Today I wrote a little python script to monitor power beep how I want. It plays it through my computer speakers (unmuting them if needed, just long enough to beep). It works for me on both ALSA and pulseaudio with an ALSA bridge (I have a few computers on each).
+
+My default settings are:
+
+- Two falling tones when power is unplugged
+- Two rising tones when power is plugged back in
+- Two warning beeps when the lowest battery reaches 10% (my laptop has two)
+- Three warning beeps when the lowest battery reaches 5%.
+
+Source code is [on github](https://github.com/za3k/short-programs#power-beeps) if you want to use it too. To change the thresholds or beeps, you'd have to change the code. No fancy configs, sorry!