@nixCraft@mastodon.socialThere was this web developer trend during the holiday season where home pages would have snowfall when users visited their sites. Sadly, the trend passed away, but you can still snow on your Linux or freebsd desktop if you want for fun https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-xsnow.html
@nixCraft But it has not passed away even for web pages. https://covariants.org/per-country
@nixCraft used to work with emails before security...
Guess that's why we can't have nice things 
@nixCraft Enjoying xsnow on my desktop, thanks!
It makes me wonder, though: how is it that the birds in this silly-fun little X app look so realistic, and yet every single time I see CGI flying animals (birds, pterodactyls or whatever) in big-budget movies, they get the wing mechanics completely wrong?
@nixCraft totally didn't have to do this for my companies website 
@nixCraft Globalisation killed the fun. The southern hemisphere is basically in summer during the "holiday season".
@nixCraft oh man xsnow was the reason I got into Linux in the 90s! I saw it on a computer conference (HCC dagen, Utrecht), at the stand of the (short lived, but fittingly named) Snow Linux distro. As a kid, this was pure serotonin falling down on those windows. I was in love! I bought a copy and tried it at home, but my lame Trident videocard wasn't supported, so it would take another year or two before I could actually run XWindows.
Nice memories! I'm gonna install it right now for kicks :D 
@nixCraft happy Christmas to you! My own creation. Various features shown in succession via a bash script. In C with curses. Have to run. Includes snowfall of course and other things besides.