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• Today we're looking at 5 pointlessfun tools

    * No level of YouTuber energy could make a long video

Table of Contents Genact Term-Fireworks Blockishfire Qlock CMatrix

Genact

• Generate activity
• Pretend like you're when your boss comes around

    * Cycles through random modules
    * List modules -l
    * Specify -m
    * Speed -s

Term-Fireworks

• Generate random terminal fireworks
• Specify seed

    * fireworks --seed 1234567

• https://blog.darrien.dev/posts/fireworks-for-your-terminal/

Blockishfire

• Plenty of implementations that exist

    * Chose to use the blockish version
    * Generates everything with unicode blocks

• Just a coincidence first 3 written in Rust
• Next is Go

Qlock

https://github.com/joshdk/tty-qlock

• Needlessly artistic clock
• Based on most annoying to read clock and watch ever designed
• Displays the time in words

    * Don't get me wrong it's cool
    * What's wrong with simple numbers

CMatrix

• End it with a classic

    * Based on the text scrolling seen in the matrix movies
    * Incredibly CPU intensive
        * My CPU doesn't care

    * Has keybindings for some reason
        * Shift num keys for colour
        * a async scroll
            * More CPU intensive
        * b random bold
        * B all bold
        * n no bold
            * May do nothing if terminal doesn't support bold chars properly
        * 0-9 adjust speed
            * Faster more cpu intensive
    * Done from options as well
        * Only one you probably care about is
        * -s screen saver

• Inb4 the where did you find most of these

    * When you search through thousands of Reddit posts for good content
    * Occasionally find silly apps like these