Comment by skirmish
3 months ago
> Very original
Not really: both Google's internal VS Code based IDE and Colab have various background pets as an option: [1]. I am pretty sure the developer saw them.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Incorgnito/comments/195savi/corgi_m...
I hadn’t seen those prior to making it. From memory, the example vs code extension is a typing cat so I just evolved that. I had used the old Windows desktop animals from the 90’s.