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I couldn't sleep last night and ended up working on a terminal-based recreation of the old Starry Skyline screensaver we had on our computers when I was a kid (part of the After Dark suite of screensavers). It's been a lot of fun to work on and I'm enjoying thinking of what else I can add to it beyond the simple office windows and stars. I just got finished adding fireworks and I'm real pleased with how they turned out.

https://github.com/Whelk/asciiskyline

This is my first time working with curses so it's serving as a useful learning experience. Hoping to throw together some TUI utilities once I'm comfortable enough with it.

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[-] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 11 points 21 hours ago

Dang, talk about flashbacks I didn't expect. Nicely done!

Another screensaver I miss and would actually put on my machine if I could... Johnny Castaway.

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