> It's a ball. It's fun. It's a ball.
All that's missing is about 3 more README's of warnings and disclosures ending with "Do not taunt Ball." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M
Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
231–240 of 305 posts
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a few programs like this. The earliest one I recall was Neko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software) But I think there were sheep, dancing babies (ugh!!), something like Bonzi Buddy rings a bell (I once had to clean something named that off a colleague’s workstation when he reported it thinking it was malware). There was also toys like this on Linux and Unix too. Most famously xeyes. I miss the play…
On X11 systems there were also things like xsnow, with snow piling up on your window borders and santa flying in the background. xlemmings, walking/falling on your windows and various variations on this. Xeyes is the 'biggest' or most famous one, but in early linux distro's there were various of these things in the 'games' sections.
xroach - little cockroaches that would hide under your windows. When you closed a window, they would scurry around to hide under other windows.
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#233I don't have any hard proof but you can ask my wife, a few years ago I totally called that bonzibuddy was gonna come back in style. We're almost there
If I knew how, I would 100% make a native app that simulates Clippy but is my daily interface with ChatGPT.
Perhaps ask Claude AI to help you with that? :)
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#234We’ve been using this in production for the last three months and I can report it has been fairly smooth overall. Only very minor downtime, and we’ve received a lot of communication from our customers about it, they like it quite a bit. So that’s been nice.
This has been a complete show stopper for my organization: https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/10 We've submitted numerous GH issues and even tried to chase the developer down on LinkedIn. But he treats the project like a fun, novelty "gift" to the community and doesn't respect the SLAs that any repo maintainer needs to adhere to for my org to put their free code in production.
Can’t tell if this is satire. Have you tried submitting a patch?
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
This has been a complete show stopper for my organization: https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/10 We've submitted numerous GH issues and even tried to chase the developer down on LinkedIn. But he treats the project like a fun, novelty "gift" to the community and doesn't respect the SLAs that any repo maintainer needs to adhere to for my org to put their free code in production.
Can’t tell if this is satire. Have you tried submitting a patch?
I can't tell if THIS is satire...
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#236Looks cool, but I just can’t justify the subscription cost.
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#237Ah, reminds me of my intro to maths and trig in the good old Flash days! https://www.kirupa.com/developer/as3/physics_bounce_effect_p...
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
This has been a complete show stopper for my organization: https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/issues/10 We've submitted numerous GH issues and even tried to chase the developer down on LinkedIn. But he treats the project like a fun, novelty "gift" to the community and doesn't respect the SLAs that any repo maintainer needs to adhere to for my org to put their free code in production.
Can’t tell if this is satire. Have you tried submitting a patch?
100% fun satire + a loving shoutout to all the folks who maintain GH projects that start as a labor of love and a desire to share with the community. Please don't let the triage of silly demands like this fictional one destroy your spirit.
More devs need to be good to OSS maintainers. Breaks my heart when I see folks treat public repos and GH issues as a service desk and not a collaboration! (Not saying anyone is doing that for this fun project, but a message I'll use any excuse to promote. Btw... that issue filed was I think someone genuinely helping the project.)
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#239At the moment of writing this I have no clue what my wallpaper is. I can't remember when was the last time I actually saw my desktop or interacted with it. I am not sure if this ball will also bounce on top of opened windows, but the whole thing made me think about the need for the desktop at all or how it could be made more useful.
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#240At the moment of writing this I have no clue what my wallpaper is. I can't remember when was the last time I actually saw my desktop or interacted with it. I am not sure if this ball will also bounce on top of opened windows, but the whole thing made me think about the need for the desktop at all or how it could be made more useful.
Heavy command line user, eh?