Tide Pets

A sea creature lives in a Tide Pets panel in your Explorer and reacts to what you're doing. Pick one: Shelly the sea turtle, Bloop the jellyfish, Inky the octopus, Pinchy the crab, Puff the pufferfish, Blue the whale, Clem the clownfish, Sandy the seahorse, Finn the shark, Splash the dolphin, Angie the angelfish or Indigo the blue tang.

The twelve pets

Typing: swims faster
Saving: does a happy loop and blows bubbles
New errors in the open file: looks worried, and hides when several appear at once (Inky inks, Puff puffs up)
All errors fixed: celebrates
Tasks: cheers when one passes, hides when one fails
Debugging: brings out a magnifying glass
Switching files: looks around
Away for 3 minutes: naps
Running the app, builds, tests: "It's alive!", "Compiling, hold on.", "Fingers crossed!"
The terminal: notices when you open it, and reacts to git push, installs, tests and risky commands like rm -rf
Copilot: notices AI edits and big blocks of code appearing at once
Commits and branches: celebrates a commit, notices a new branch
Late nights, mornings, long sessions: says so, and suggests a stretch
Clicked / double-clicked: does a spin / shows hearts

Feed it: click the ♥ on the panel (or Tide Pets: Feed Pet) and a { }, [ ], ( ), < > or ; sinks down for your pet to eat. Every 20th { you type drops a crumb too.

Pets reacting to typing, fixed errors, a new error, failed tests, debugging and being left alone

Choose, show or hide

Command Palette → Tide Pets: Choose Pet, Feed Pet, Toggle Pet, Show Pet or Hide Pet
The buttons on the panel's title bar
The settings below

Settings

Setting	Default
`tidePets.enabled`	`true`	Show the pet in the Explorer
`tidePets.pet`	`"turtle"`	`turtle`, `jellyfish`, `octopus`, `crab`, `pufferfish`, `whale`, `clownfish`, `seahorse`, `shark`, `dolphin`, `angelfish` or `tang`
`tidePets.name`	`""`	Your pet's name; empty for its own (Shelly, Bloop, Inky, Pinchy, Puff, Blue, Clem, Sandy, Finn, Splash, Angie or Indigo)

Made to go with the Midnight Tide theme, and works with any theme. In JetBrains IDEs the pet floats along the bottom of the editor.

License

MIT. Built by Chelayel. Source: github.com/Chelayel/tide-pets.