I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in some ways screen savers—the actual display modes rather than the XScreenSaver framework—are the perfect program because they almost always start from scratch and they do something pretty and there's never a version 2.0. There's very rarely a bug in a screen saver. It crashes—oh, there's a divide-by-zero and you fix that. But no one is ever going to ask for a new feature in a screen saver. “I wish it was more yellow.” You're not going to get a bug report like that. It is what it is. So that's why I've always written those for fun. They make this neat
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