artwall - random paintings as wallpapers
One thing I've been missing from my OSX days is Artful - an app that rotated wallpaper through random paintings. Turns out, I like looking at paintings and the concept of lateral learning works well on me - I started to develop both connaissance and taste. However, OSX was terrible in every other way, so I switched to Linux and Sway. Fast forward ten years, thanks to LLMs, I could now recreate a similar thing on Sway. Happy days. But then one day my daughter saw it and said she wanted it too. Since it wouldn't be realistic to get her to use Sway, I needed a desktop environment usable by mere mortals where this could be achieved. KDE Plasma ticked the box and so it was done.
Now, I realise that many people here dislike projects where an LLM did the coding. And I must admit, this is 100% the case - I haven't even read any of it. Full test coverage, type checking and lints give me some modest confidence that the code is not complete garbage, but, ultimately, I have no idea. Having said that, the end result is working well and makes sense (the product of months of iterating and tweaking), has some genuine novelty beyond Artful and thus is worth sharing. So here it is: artemave/artwall
P.S. the demo is recorded on Sway, but it looks and behaves identically on KDE.
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artwall - random paintings as wallpapers One thing I've been missing from my OSX days is Artful - an app that rotated wallpaper through random paintings. Turns out, I like looking at paintings and the concept of lateral learning works well on me - I started to develop both connaissance and taste. However, OSX was terrible in every other way, so I switched to Linux and Sway. Fast forward ten years, thanks to LLMs, I could now recreate a similar thing on Sway. Happy days. But then one day my daughter saw it and said she wanted it too. Since it wouldn't be realistic to get her to use Sway, I needed a desktop environment usable by mere mortals where this could be achieved. KDE Plasma ticked the box and so it was done. Now, I realise that many people here dislike projects where an LLM did the coding. And I must admit, this is 100% the case - I haven't even read any of it. Full test coverage, type checking and lints give me some modest confidence that the code is not complete garbage, but, ultimately, I have no idea. Having said that, the end result is working well and makes sense (the product of months of iterating and tweaking), has some genuine novelty beyond Artful and thus is worth sharing. So here it is: artemave/artwall P.S. the demo is recorded on Sway, but it looks and behaves identically on KDE.