I deliberately mentioned stuff that people are likely to manually run on local and healthy systems. But yeah, I agree with you that the novelty of this stuff wares off quickly.
An example of this done well would be ‘pacman’ package manager where an Easter egg can be enabled to turn the progress bar into a little Pac-Man gobbling pills. It’s not there by default, but it can be enabled if you know how.
Personally, I’m in the same camp as yourself where I’d prefer our tools didn’t have all this cutesy stuff. But people like us seem to be a dying breed.
An example of this done well would be ‘pacman’ package manager where an Easter egg can be enabled to turn the progress bar into a little Pac-Man gobbling pills. It’s not there by default, but it can be enabled if you know how.
Personally, I’m in the same camp as yourself where I’d prefer our tools didn’t have all this cutesy stuff. But people like us seem to be a dying breed.