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title: "How I made a useless tool and the reactions made my sunday better"
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Last night I had an idea, which made me stay up two hours longer than I wanted.
I built a useless tool: [lysbilder](https://github.com/badboy/lysbilder/), the slide system no one needed.

Today I tweeted about it and then went out to enjoy the day a bit:

> [@badboy_](https://twitter.com/badboy_/status/1046378708527976449):
I might have built a very useless slideshow tool on top of rustdoc, generated from code documentation, linked by trait implementations.
>
> Please don’t use it¹.
>
> <https://badboy.github.io/lysbilder/>
>
> ¹: however, I will use it once.

Quickly I got some responses:

> [@myriamjessier](https://twitter.com/myriamjessier/status/1046382236013129729):
> I laughed. It was good enough to retweet just because of that.

and

> [@QuietMisdreavus](https://twitter.com/QuietMisdreavus/status/1046411069529477121):
> i love this so much

Those made me smile and made my sunday a bit better. :)