Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook
18 comments
·September 11, 2025Tade0
What a glorious homage to fartscroll.js:
https://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/
Coincidentally the number of stars this library had over the years was a decent predictor whether a new frontend library/framework was mature enough for adoption.
In other words: if something is less popular than a joke library that makes fart sounds, can it really be considered as having the momentum to go mainstream? For instance, ReasonML struggled for years to beat fartscroll.js. Where is it now?
vunderba
What you really want is two slightly different "NOM NOM" noshing sounds on open and close so you can feed it some flash drives and instantly wear out the hinge as you rapidly make your laptop mimic an eating motion.
I'm sure the fine details of the Apple warranty covers cookie monster roleplaying.
DonHopkins
As long as we're testing the warrantee, how about a Farty Bird game where you flap by opening and closing your MacBook screen really fast!
VladVladikoff
The GitHub needs a video demo. I’m too lazy to install this just to see it in action.
hagbard_c
Just play the fart sound [1] and imagine you're opening or closing a laptop lid.
[1] https://github.com/iannuttall/fartscroll-lid/blob/main/FartS...
andersco
For this to truly be funny, it needs to be installed on on an unsuspecting user’s laptop, preferably some C-level type about to join an in-person board meeting.
Angostura
I don't have a C-level to hand. My daughter's university laptop, however is just here...
lotsofpulp
Child-level works, too.
vaenaes
Tesla IT will be deploying this to all employee MacBooks tonight.
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2
But does it change tune depending on the angle ( how tight is the opening )?
edit: clicked link. ofcourse it does
ElCapitanMarkla
Fantastic, my kids are going to love this.
Seconding the call for a video.
Also the instructions to remove the quarantine attr don't work.
xattr -cr ~/Downloads/FartScrollLid.app 11:12:20
option -r not recognized
edit: that should be `xattr -d FartScrollLid.app`
fragmede
Where's dbatalero when you need him! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120517
(I will be sending a pull request just as soon as I get back to my laptop after dinner and seeing my nephews)
scyzoryk_xyz
The GitHub posts for MacBook lid making X sound are going to be a daily thing now
shawn_w
The modern whoopie cushion.
2snakes
What's next, pr0n sounds? lulz
Note: This appears to be a fork of Sam Henri Gold’s recent lid-angle sensor project, with the wav file changed. The readme does give credit, though the license has been changed from Apache to MIT for some reason.
Original: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
Demos (no farts, sorry): https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159295473019599 https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115159854830332329