{"slug": "mycat-escaped-to-opensource", "title": "myCat escaped to opensource", "summary": "A developer open-sourced their Python screen-pet project, myCat, on GitHub after using it as a testbed for AI coding experiments. The project, born from a desire to learn Python, is now available at github.com/yumiaura/myCat.", "body_md": "I've been meaning to write this post for a long time - I just never worked up the nerve.\n\nI want to tell you about my pet project.\n\nThree years ago I got into Python. Like a lot of people, I started with online courses - and most of it went in one ear and out the other.\n\nSo, on the side, I decided to write a little screen-pet program. A simple idea, but it felt genuinely interesting to me - so interesting that I dropped the course for it.\n\nThen came the small freelance gigs, my first real tasks. And every time I looked at the code of seasoned, bearded senior devs and compared it to mine, I felt ashamed - God forbid anyone sees this - so I'd quietly patch mine up on the sly.\n\nThen the first AI wave arrived. First writing code through ChatGPT, then Cursor - and I was a little afraid to use it on client projects.\n\nSo myCat became the first victim of my AI experiments 😄\n\nAround the same time I started looking through other people's public repositories - and soon realized there's nothing to be ashamed of. The cat went open source.\n\nYou can take a look (and adopt it, if you like it) on my GitHub page: [https://github.com/yumiaura/myCat](https://github.com/yumiaura/myCat)\n\nConstructive criticism - and honestly any feedback or ideas - are very welcome. And if you can tell a beginner dev how to get a little cat some popularity, my gratitude will be doubled 😊\n\nWishing everyone all the best, interesting projects, and mountains of green dollars 💵", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mycat-escaped-to-opensource", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/yumiaura/mycat-escaped-to-opensource-2dl1", "published_at": "2026-07-24 17:00:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 17:33:55.110133+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["myCat", "GitHub", "yumiaura"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mycat-escaped-to-opensource", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mycat-escaped-to-opensource.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mycat-escaped-to-opensource.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mycat-escaped-to-opensource.jsonld"}}