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Comment by behnamoh | Hacker News Reader

Sadly they only appear in the right/left hand side, not the editor :( I want a cat that reacts to my code, ideally getting mad at me for writing poor quality code, and stretching/sleeping when I'm thinking.

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I got "power mode" (or something similar) installed in Intellij/Jetbrains IDE. The faster I write or bigger change I make the more sparkles and flames etc grow around the cursor. Similar plug-ins exist for other editors as well. A bit fun to enable before pairing with a coworker to see their reaction.

Google Colab has this setting, too

Yes nice, a dog could express its opinion by peeing on the lines of code

Triggering an animation based on what's under the cursor sounds interesting. Like moving to a loop declaration starts a chase-your-tail animation. Or moving to a function signature gives the pet some paint and paper.

A cat that spins around in circles if it detects a function results in an infinite loop?

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oo-ee-a-e-a-cat-remixes

Yes, because cats have solved the halting problem, and whether P=NP. They're just not telling us.

Atom could have them in the editor. But one of the wins for VS Code was better security isolation for plugins.

Maybe Microsoft could bring back the Bob team to integrate pets with all facets of VS Code.

It could enforce 80 char line width limits by batting stray characters “of the ledge” to watch them fall

> a cat that reacts to my code, ideally getting mad at me for writing poor quality code, and stretching/sleeping when I'm thinking

This... this needs to happen!

Make it chase the text cursor and get confused by multi-cursor

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