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.
See also: https://github.com/lropero/starry-night
Looks like this guy did some others:
https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css
Thanks, those are pretty awesome. Glad I’m not the only one overly nostalgic for these old screensavers. Looks like I misremembered the name though, I’ll have to update my documentation.