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title: "VSCode pets"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2025/01/vscode-pets/
last_updated: 2025-01-20
---


The definition of [this](https://github.com/tonybaloney/vscode-pets) VSCode
extension lies somewhere within the 3D spectrum of amusing, delightful and
wasteful. You do you[^1].

[^1]: Back in 2016 the internal (and legacy) Google IDE had a "corgi mode",
    which is even more distracting – dogs are cuter than cats after all, full
    stop. How can the 10x engineer achieve a [state of flow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))?