[HN Gopher] VS Code Pets
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VS Code Pets
Author : vortex_ape
Score : 130 points
Date : 2025-01-18 18:17 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| behnamoh wrote:
| Sadly they only appear in the right/left hand side, not the
| editor :( I want a cat that reacts to my code, ideally getting
| mad at me for writing poor quality code, and stretching/sleeping
| when I'm thinking.
| baal80spam wrote:
| > a cat that reacts to my code, ideally getting mad at me for
| writing poor quality code, and stretching/sleeping when I'm
| thinking
|
| This... this needs to happen!
| entropie wrote:
| Yes nice, a dog could express its opinion by peeing on the
| lines of code
| Frotag wrote:
| Triggering an animation based on what's under the cursor sounds
| interesting. Like moving to a loop declaration starts a chase-
| your-tail animation. Or moving to a function signature gives
| the pet some paint and paper.
| LordShredda wrote:
| A cat that spins around in circles if it detects a function
| results in an infinite loop?
| yreg wrote:
| https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oo-ee-a-e-a-cat-remixes
| matsemann wrote:
| I got "power mode" (or something similar) installed in
| Intellij/Jetbrains IDE. The faster I write or bigger change I
| make the more sparkles and flames etc grow around the cursor.
| Similar plug-ins exist for other editors as well. A bit fun to
| enable before pairing with a coworker to see their reaction.
| firejake308 wrote:
| Google Colab has this setting, too
| cluckindan wrote:
| Make it chase the text cursor and get confused by multi-cursor
| helsinki wrote:
| Let's get them in Neovim and call them Neopets.
| dailykoder wrote:
| Yes, but only if they run in javascript. We need more
| javascript.
| _ache_ wrote:
| It already exists for neovim.
|
| https://github.com/giusgad/pets.nvim
| SketchySeaBeast wrote:
| That's adorable, first time I've had my wife engage with what I'm
| writing. Any way to make them larger? They're so tiny on high
| resolution screens.
| behnamoh wrote:
| Ideally they would grow as time goes on :)
| moffkalast wrote:
| Then you might eventually need to buy an extra monitor just
| for the cat.
| TuringNYC wrote:
| So basically, Clippy?
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant)
|
| https://steve-lovelace.com/the-ghosts-of-microsoft-bob/
| notnmeyer wrote:
| clippy is one of the pets and mentioned at the top of the
| readme
| sdflhasjd wrote:
| My I also mention the Nyancat Progress bar for Jetbrains IDEs?
| https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8575-nyan-progress-bar
| fuzzy2 wrote:
| It's almost like Sheep.exe, but not quite there yet!
| Waterluvian wrote:
| Can my pet subtly react to the state of my workspace? If there's
| errors and warnings, or if various events happen.
| aleden wrote:
| Yes! This is along the lines of what I thought of when I saw
| ghostty.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524537
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| It's too bad I don't use vscode. I think it would be cool to have
| something that can jump between terminal emulators, something
| that isn't shackled to a text editor.
|
| EDIT: I seem to vaguely remember something similar to this
| concept from some anime I watched that depicted a "hacker". It
| might have been serial experiments lain, or cowboy bebop..
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