# myCat escaped to opensource

> Source: <https://dev.to/yumiaura/mycat-escaped-to-opensource-2dl1>
> Published: 2026-07-24 17:00:03+00:00

I've been meaning to write this post for a long time - I just never worked up the nerve.

I want to tell you about my pet project.

Three 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.

So, 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.

Then 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.

Then the first AI wave arrived. First writing code through ChatGPT, then Cursor - and I was a little afraid to use it on client projects.

So myCat became the first victim of my AI experiments 😄

Around 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.

You 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)

Constructive 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 😊

Wishing everyone all the best, interesting projects, and mountains of green dollars 💵