Ugh, this is embarrassing (but here's what I learned) 👋

[anshmajumdar121]

Hey, I'm Ansh. I build things that live in terminals. And I almost lost one of them because I forgot the most basic rule in dev.
So here's the thing: I've been diving deep into C++, Python, and JavaScript, messing around with MongoDB, Firebase, SQL—trying to understand how real systems actually scale, not just how to make them compile. I wanted to build something that felt alive, not just another todo app.
So I made TermiPet 🐾
A tiny virtual pet that lives in your terminal. It hatches uniquely for you, reacts to your keystrokes, gets happy when you code, worried when you idle. Fully themeable. Event-driven. No GUI fluff—just pure system-thinking in a shell.
✨ I was proud of it.
✨ I wrote the docs.
✨ I even deployed a live demo.
But here's where I messed up.
I was so focused on making the product feel real, I treated the code like it was disposable.
I kept iterating locally. "I'll push to GitHub once it's polished," I told myself.
"I'll add tests, then README, then then I'll share it."
Sound familiar?
Then my laptop decided to update at 3 AM.
Not a dramatic NVME funeral like some horror stories—just a silent, corrupted git folder and a npm install that suddenly couldn't find half its dependencies.
I panicked. Checked backups. Realized: I never pushed the latest branch.
The deterministic hatching logic? The event reactor? The theming engine?
All sitting in a local folder that now felt very, very fragile.
I spent the next 6 hours reconstructing commits from memory and terminal history.
It worked—but barely. And the stress wasn't worth it.
So I pushed everything.
✅ https://github.com/anshmajumdar121/termipet
✅ https://anshmajumdar121.github.io/termipet/
And now I'm sharing it with you—not because it's perfect, but because it's real.
I'm brand new to GitHub. I want to move from "building projects" to "building systems people actually use." I want to collaborate, contribute to open source, and learn how to solve real problems with code.
So here's my ask:
🐣 Does the pet concept feel fun or gimmicky?
⚡ Are the event-driven reactions useful or over-engineered?
🎨 Is the theming system intuitive?
🐛 Did you find a bug? (Please tell me.)
Even a "meh, not for me" helps. I'm still learning.

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