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Re:VS Code Pets by puffybunion on Saturday January 18, 2025 @09:01PM (#42752980)
This is such a great idea. Very original, at least as far as I'm aware. Kinda nice to see something like this in today's cynical world.
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Re:VS Code Pets by skirmish on Saturday January 18, 2025 @09:09PM (#42753004)
> Very original

Not really: both Google's internal VS Code based IDE and Colab have various background pets as an option: [1]. I am pretty sure the developer saw them.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Incorgnito/comments/195savi/corgi_m...

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Re:VS Code Pets by anthonyshaw on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:43PM (#42764451)
I hadn’t seen those prior to making it. From memory, the example vs code extension is a typing cat so I just evolved that. I had used the old Windows desktop animals from the 90’s.
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Re:VS Code Pets by taspeotis on Saturday January 18, 2025 @09:09PM (#42753007)
It’s gotta be heavily inspired by Pixel Pals
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Re:VS Code Pets by mkl on Sunday January 19, 2025 @06:03AM (#42755975)
Not original. Things like this go back at least to the 1980s.

Some I ran ~30 years ago:

Neko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

Sheep: https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/

There were even things like this for text mode DOS. I had one that was smiley faces moving around eating letters.

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