@genus-machina/spice v1.0.5

spice

Add a little spice to your day with a random curated quote or wallpaper.

Basic Usage

$ npm install -g spice
$ spice invoke

Providers

Spice pulls content from a number of different providers. Spice attempts to only pull new content rather than pulling the same content multiple times.

• apod -- Sets the desktop wallpaper to NASA's astronomy picture of the day.
• brainyquote -- Generates pop-up notifications with one of the quotes of the day.
• wikimedia -- Sets the desktop wallpaper to the Wikimedia Commons picture of the day.

• xkcd -- Sets the desktop wallpaper to the current XKCD comic.

Normally the provider is selected at random based on what new content is available. However, a provider may be explicitly selected using the --provider option. For example:

$ spice invoke --provider xkcd

More Randomness

In order to create a true sense of surprise and limit the amount of distraction, the --probability option can be used to cause spice to randomly no-op. This can be useful when running spice on a schedule. For example, adding the following to a user's crontab should cause spice to run on random schedule that averages roughly one real invocation every three hours:

*/5 * * * * spice invoke --probability 0.03