Everyone involved at LinuxLinks wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. May the Christmas Season bring only happiness and joy to you and your family.
We’re gearing up for an exciting new year with a bunch of projects lined up! We’ll be broadening our range of hardware reviews and rolling out intriguing software content for all the Linux enthusiasts out there. After all, that’s what we’re all about!
To liven up your terminal on this festive day, take a gander at “Happy Go Christmas“, an atmospheric Christmas tree for your terminal written in Go that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
It’ll brighten up your terminal and tantalize your ears with its funky 8-bit Jingle Bells audio.
Features include:
- Fast rendering:
- Powered by a custom Double Buffering engine with memory pre-allocation.
- Zero-flicker rendering loop.
- Benchmarks: Renders a size-15 tree in ~50µs (down from 2ms), handling thousands of particles with negligible CPU usage.
- Embedded Audio: Includes an 8-bit “Jingle Bells” track packed directly into the binary using embed. No extra files are needed!
- Customizable Physics: Snowflakes drift with the wind, and you can control the snow density (from light flurry to heavy blizzard).
- Smart JSON Config: Automatically saves your preferences (Tree size, Music, Density, Leaf style) to ~/.config/happy-go-christmas/config.json.
- Linux Integration: Native .desktop support and application icon.
