A sassy, AI-powered, terminal message-of-the-day generator that fills your shell with big rainbow & queer ASCII/ANSI artwork plus a drag queen read about your code, every day!
- Big, colorful, randomly-themed LGBTQ+ & drag-inspired art in your terminal!
- AI-generated drag queen "read" about your code—daily.
- Super-fast: AI art/message is cached, shell loading is instant.
- Adhoc update via CLI or cron.
- Ready for pip install (with autoversioning), or just drop in your
.zshrc.
Install from your local repo (in this directory):
pip install .Or, if published to PyPI:
pip install queen-motd- Show today's cached motd:
queen-motd - Force AI to generate new art/message:
queen-motd update - In your .zshrc (or .bashrc):
# Replace YOUR_ACTUAL_API_KEY with your OpenAI API key export OPENAI_API_KEY="YOUR_ACTUAL_API_KEY" queen-motd
- To have this update daily, add to crontab:
0 2 * * * queen-motd update >/dev/null 2>&1
- Versioning is automatic (
setuptools_scm)!
Tag in git (git tag v0.2.0) and re-build/re-upload. - Python 3.7+ required.
requirements.txtlists Python dependencies for runtime.
queen_motd/: The codesetup.py: Installer & metadata (auto-versioning enabled)requirements.txt,.gitignore,LICENSE,README.md
(c) 2025 Chris Sims. PRs, new shade, and gorgeous ASCII contributions welcome!

