Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by riidom » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 3:45 AM UTC

Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
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Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by chrsig » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:03 AM UTC

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Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by Liftyee » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:05 AM UTC

This is a cool project! Reminds me of `hollywood`[1], but specifically geared towards programming. It'll be a useful tool in my arsenal of "things to run to impress non-terminal-users".

[1] https://a.hollywood.computer/

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by brikym » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

Be sure to use a mouse jiggler if you walk away.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by vzaliva » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC

That reminded me:

Back in the early '90s, I wrote an MS-DOS TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) "boss key" program. It would bring up a fake TurboC compilation screen whenever I pressed a key - just in case my boss walked in while I was playing a game. (The tricky part was restoring the graphics state back to normal, but that's another story.)

My boss wasn’t stupid. After a few close calls, he started asking why my compilation was taking so long without producing any results. That motivated me to improve my "boss key" app - I ended up adding line numbers that incremented on the screen, making it look like the fake compilation was actually progressing.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by incanus77 » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:18 AM UTC

vzaliva wrote: post #5

That reminded me: Back in the early '90s, I wrote an MS-DOS TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) "boss key" program. It would bring up a fake TurboC compilation screen whenever I pressed a key - just in case my boss walked in while I was playing a game. (The tricky part was restoring the graphics state back to normal, but that's another story.) My boss wasn’t stupid. After a few close calls, he started asking why my c…

I recall playing an 80s-ish submarine (WW2?) game with a "spreadsheet mode".

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by chihuahua » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:25 AM UTC

Liftyee wrote: post #3

This is a cool project! Reminds me of `hollywood`[1], but specifically geared towards programming. It'll be a useful tool in my arsenal of "things to run to impress non-terminal-users". [1] https://a.hollywood.computer/

HackerTyper is a worthy addition to that arsenal:

https://hackertyper.com

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by hannasm » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:28 AM UTC

So is this one on-par with DeepSeek or no? I didn't see those metrics in the ReadMe

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by yas_hmaheshwari » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:29 AM UTC

chrsig wrote: post #2

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Another way to look at it: Maybe this is the way to prevent those layoffs hitting you :-)

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by Duanemclemore » Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 5:32 AM UTC

chrsig wrote: post #2

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Clearly not enough people using this to look busy;)