Show HN: Mootivator – Let your Terminal cowsay you a Geek Joke on starup (opens in new tab)

Ever open your terminal and think: "man, this is boring"?

Meet Mootivator, a CLI tool to print geek jokes in cowsay style.

GoTo https://github.com/tzador/mootivator, follow the easy install instructions, and enjoy.

Here is one:

     ------------------------------
    ( The future of software isn’t )
    ( no-code, it’s new-code.      )
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           \
            \    \__/
             \   (oO)_________
              \ (_.._)        )\
               \_ U  ||---w-||  *
                    _||    _||
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You get a random programming joke, debugging wisdom, or dev-friendly saying from a collection of 4,939 quotes across 42 categories (debugging humor, DevOps quips, language wars, security jokes, etc.).

But of course those all have generated by LLM, with a bit of forced prompting to get better jokes (self rating and picking the top).

I hope it puts smile on your face, even just for a little bit )))