I have these that come from history|grep espeak

From a particularly sunny day where I was having too much fun waiting for my builds:

    while ps -49011;do sleep 3;done;espeak "IT'S DONE YOU FUCK. COME WORK.";telegram-send "done"

More regularly:

    gh pr checks 2850 --watch ; while true; do espeak "main done";sleep 5;done

At a previous job we had a service that handled around 1 query per second.

I crafted a oneliner that `tail -f`'d the logs and played a note for each response. I believe there were different notes for different HTTP status codes but it was years ago so the details flee me.

I use a command that'll play a good/bad sound effect based on previous shell command exit code.

Something like:

  function boop() {
      local last="$?"
      if [[ "$last" == '0' ]]; then
          sfx good
      else
          sfx bad
      fi
      $(exit "$last")
  }

I'd then do:

  $ make -j; boop

or

  $ nmap <...>; boop

That way I can focus my attention elsewhere while waiting for stuff that'll take anywhere from 20s-2min without losing track of time.

Lately I've been experimenting with throwing in notify-send in there too, but find it a bit much to both get sound and visual feedback.