Webneko – a desktop screenmate ported to web

webneko.net

41 points·nkanaev··7 comments

I am rebuilding the website for a personal project of mine; the site is for a mod in a game that offers twitch integration, and in the mod, there is a "twitch chest" that only chat can open.

I added an easter egg on the website, that when you click on the chest in the footer, it follows the mouse in a similar way it would within the game -- it keeps a safe distance from the mouse to prevent interfering with it, and will repel away to that distance when moving the mouse towards it.

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/floating-chest-k33n63 for a React component that implements this functionality.

A bunch of those assets have a last modified date of 2010. Some projects can actually be done.

It mentions Xanga and MySpace... hah, those are ancient civilizations in Internet time...

Yeah MySpace still exists. Incredibly it has a "Sign in with your Facebook account" button.

MySpace's "proper" successor is https://spacehey.com/

Something like 2.7 million users, looks like mostly teenagers. https://spacehey.com/browse

I'm open to the idea it's just nostalgic people in their 30s recapturing their youth by cosplaying as teenagers but that'd be a pretty huge larp given the effort and volume of profiles.

Is there any similar app still being worked on for desktop? Would love to have a Neko cat run around the desktop as always-on-top.

There’s at least:

- http://www.daidouji.com/oneko/ (ancient)

- https://github.com/crgimenes/neko

- https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/wayneko

Looks very similar to oneko.js

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