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🌀 A nonsense activity generator

7 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2018-01-17 · latest 2025-03-16

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  1. This is cool! I once made a project very much like this: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact Check it out if you like this kind of thing.
    comment by Svenstaro · 2025-03-16 · in Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
  2. I made a thing called genact that pretends to be useful but actually isn't doing anything at all: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact There's also a web version! https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/
    comment by Svenstaro · 2024-10-22 · in Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
  3. also genact https://github.com/svenstaro/genact (but used to pretend compiling / downloading not coding)
    comment by slmjkdbtl · 2024-02-25 · in I'm Coder
  4. …in Go when it was originally written in Rust. It's not usually the direction it goes. :D [0] https://github.com/svenstaro/genact
    comment by Svenstaro · 2020-08-14 · in Chenjiandongx/oscar: Next generation building tool for nothing
  5. A nonsense activity generator to impress colleagues with your productivity: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact Try it online here: https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/ Disclaimer: I made that.
    comment by Svenstaro · 2018-12-06 · in Ask HN: What is the funniest and stupidest software project you know?