A curated list of useless works, resources, communities, websites, things (a.k.a. a web curiosity cabinet)
Creative masterpieces; fun side of programming; just for fun 😄
Our definition of "doing useless things" is to "use skills and invest time or other resources to create useless things"
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Oscar Wilde
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Music is essentially useless, as is life. George Santayana
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All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde
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It is better, of course, to know useless things, that to know nothing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If you can live a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang
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Failure was my biggest fear. So I came up with a setup that would guarantee success 100% of the time. With my setup, it would be nearly impossible to fail. Instead of trying to succeed, I was going to try to build things that would fail. Simone Giertz
- https://www.uselessfacts.net/
- https://theuselessweb.com/
- https://github.com/scriptex/awesome-useless-websites
- IOCCC: The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is a community of very talented developers that makes useless things with a very high level of complexity
- https://github.com/mamokaze/useless-filler-codes: codes that do nothing
- sapin.c: a christmas tree generator looking like a christmas tree itself
- quine-relay: An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages
- Simone Giertz
- Ultreme: a nonprofit collective of developers and artists that releases regularly some codes, websites, musics, drawings, books and organizes events; mostly around using skills to make useless things (often related with art)
- Ultreme Records: the music label section of ultreme, encouraging emerging artist and computer-generated random musics
- Ultreme Publishing: the book publishing section of ultreme, focusing on curiosity books and randomly generated books
- Ultreme Coding: the coding section of ultreme, doing useless code everyday
- Millipede community: a community of developers trying to make as much implementations as possible of an ascii-art millipede
- TPYO Lang: people trying to make typography generators accessible to everyone