Why I Built a Desktop Cat to Keep Me Company While Coding (with Rust + Tauri)
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It Started with Loneliness When you code alone, you eventually notice you've been staring at a screen with no one around. In team projects, there's a feedback loop — PR reviews come in, someone drops a "LGTM" emoji on Slack. But side projects are different. You commit and nothing happens. You fix a bug past midnight and nobody knows. Motivation has to come entirely from yourself. I wanted something that could cheer me on. Not a productivity tool — just something that feels like it