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For me it is for instance my involvement in the demo-scene in the 90’s. A concrete example is Nikki, a demo released in 96 and captured (with some technical di

For me it is for instance my involvement in the demo-scene in the 90’s. A concrete example is Nikki, a demo released in 96 and captured (with some technical difficulties) by a friend here https://youtu.be/t8o-uuq73UU?si=4dlTla0s2mDCVzCK https://youtu.be/t8o-uuq73UU?si=4dlTla0s2mDCVzCK Working on anything “useless” is profoundly life changing and “useful” on the long run! Only now am I able to do more similar stuff (my current research is around music + code + lightning and videos, this time connected to real life performances), and it is massively pleasurable (and also likely one of the most technical types of work I will be working on for now!)

Voltage 2y ago
Yeah the demoscene jumps out as a good candidate to represent "creative 'useless' programs". :) I make a few demos, but my personal favourite was this 4k (windows executable less than 4096 bytes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcwQCBpEiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBcwQCBpEiE It uses all the fancy compressing linker tech (called crinkler) along with a tiny music player and a glsl raymarcher. I tried to download it but all I get is virus warnings now... I guess malware devs also like crinkler. :(