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.
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.