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Relax your coding self with the soothing JavaScript simulation of rain

by newcoders on 9/10/20, 11:13 AM with 22 comments

• by merricksb on 9/10/20, 1:46 PM

  Seems similar to this, which was posted here about 6 weeks ago:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985825

  The linked site for this submission is branded/copyrighted Pluvior.

  The previous submission linked to the domain https://pluvoir.netlify.app (though this now redirects to a dedicated domain - rainbowhunt.com).

  The credits on the two sites look very similar:

  https://rainbowhunt.com/credits.html

  https://itsrainingday.netlify.app/credits.html

  On the previous submission, the author of the rain effect showed up to comment about their work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987120

  The only real difference with this submission is that it uses a different library for the rain effect; this one uses rainyday.js by Marek Brodziak instead - https://modernweb.com/creating-a-realistic-rain-effect-with-....

  I don't think there's enough new/original work here to count as a new Show HN.

• by verytrivial on 9/10/20, 11:51 AM

  I can personally endorse https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/campingRainNoiseGenerator.... and the various presets for that shown on the right.

  The sliders are for different noises samples that are generally focused at that part of the sound spectrum and there are modes that will drift them up and down to keep things gently interesting.

• by vicnicius on 9/10/20, 1:22 PM

  Reminded me of this article on rain water effects: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...

• by Eek on 9/10/20, 11:59 AM

  Tried to use it but for some reason it randomly scroll me up and down when I move the mouse which is extremely annoying lol

• by etripe on 9/10/20, 11:49 AM

  Great idea! I'm somewhat confused as to what the different left-hand buttons do, though. They don't seem to make a (immediate?) difference.

• by chillfox on 9/10/20, 12:49 PM

  I really like the rain/thunder sounds, and the the drops on the window is pretty cool.

  The background image is a bit too blurred and weird stuff happens when resizing the window to something that will fit in the corner of the screen.

  It would be nice if there were a few different pictures to pick from.

• by adelarsq on 9/10/20, 1:04 PM

  I really like this! So I did create a command to open this on my Vim:

  command! Rain :OpenBrowser https://itsrainingday.netlify.app

  Depends on https://github.com/tyru/open-browser.vim

• by _Microft on 9/10/20, 1:43 PM

  I enjoy café sounds (cutlery on dishes, people voices but not understandable) with jazz for relaxing. I usually just play the different audio simultaneously (Youtube, Soundcloud, ...).

• by LandR on 9/10/20, 12:41 PM

  Why does it scroll the page when I move my mouse barely an inch? I literally can't get the mouse over the volume sliders as it keeps scrolling the whole page up and down.

• by nurettin on 9/10/20, 12:28 PM

  How do you relax with all this noise? Made me uneasy.

• by vsareto on 9/10/20, 12:55 PM

  Now we just need a Javascript Lo-Fi girl