In the late 90’s I wrote a program called lazy.exe. This was Windows 95/98 days way before all your fancy tabbed browser windows. When I was busy surfing the world wide web, I found it bothersome to have to minimize my browser and switch over to winamp to advance to the next mp3 song. So I wrote lazy.exe in VB.
It basically just hooked into the winamp API and ran in the background waiting for the mouse cursor to get to position 0,0. At that point it would talk to winamp and tell it to move on to the next song. I didn’t have to stop reading whatever it was my ADHD was focused on, just had to move the mouse up and left. Boom. New song.
My 4 kids (but to be fair, my wife did most of the early work).
@macromeh lol
@macromeh My wife doesn’t appreciate it when I joke she half-slept through her labor because of the drugs.
Not sure why… oh well, live and learn.
In the late 90’s I wrote a program called lazy.exe. This was Windows 95/98 days way before all your fancy tabbed browser windows. When I was busy surfing the world wide web, I found it bothersome to have to minimize my browser and switch over to winamp to advance to the next mp3 song. So I wrote lazy.exe in VB.
It basically just hooked into the winamp API and ran in the background waiting for the mouse cursor to get to position 0,0. At that point it would talk to winamp and tell it to move on to the next song. I didn’t have to stop reading whatever it was my ADHD was focused on, just had to move the mouse up and left. Boom. New song.
That’s right… I created ‘swipe left’.
@capnjb Cool
Same, I have ADHD and I can’t even finish asong before I click to a new one. That is why my Spotify playlist is 105 songs and counting.
@Wollyhop Getting a fancy turntable and a big pile of vinyl helped me with that
There is no ‘next’ button. Only ‘turn that down’ from my wife 