myCat escaped to opensource

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.

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 💵