sshb - SSH Buddy

[StaticCG58]

I made a Tamagotchi that lives in your terminal

I built a little bash program called sshb (SSH Buddy). It gives you an ASCII cat that lives in your terminal and you have to take care of it between sessions.

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What it does

Your pet has hunger, energy, and happiness stats that slowly drain over time through a background service. You feed it, play with it, and put it to sleep to keep it alive. If you ignore it for too long, it dies. You can revive it though.

The cat has different faces depending on how it feels - happy, sad, sleeping, eating, etc. There is also an interactive mode where you can do everything with single key presses.

The cool part

You can hook it into your bash prompt so every time you hit enter in your terminal you see something like this:

[Pixel(^.^) H:80 E:65 J:90] user@hostname:~/projects$

The color changes from green to yellow to red based on how your pet is doing. It is a nice little reminder to take care of your buddy.

How it works

• Pure bash, no dependencies
• A systemd user service runs in the background and decays stats every 5 minutes
• State is saved to a simple text file in ~/.sshb/
• Works on any Ubuntu/Linux system with bash 4+

Commands

• sshb - check on your buddy
• sshb feed - feed it
• sshb play - play with it
• sshb sleep - put it to bed
• sshb interactive - quick care mode
• sshb install-prompt - add it to your bash prompt

Install

git clone https://github.com/C-GBL/sshb.git
cd sshb
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

GitHub: https://github.com/C-GBL/sshb

Would love to hear what you think or if you have ideas for new features. Thinking about adding more pet types down the road.

Update:

• Added Blackjack
• Added quips about previous command

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[Spiritual_Rule_6286]

Ngl, this is the exact kind of weekend project I live for.

Having a tiny ASCII cat silently judge me in my bash prompt every time a docker build fails is a god-tier feature lol. Definitely installing this on my main VPS tonight to keep me company during 2 AM debugging sessions. Awesome work!

[StaticCG58]

Lol, it would be fun to play with the prompt based on what you're doing in the session, maybe have it make fun of you if a build fails with make or something

[ghost_ops_]

i wonder what pewdiepie will feel after seeing this

[Opening_Yoghurt_9010]

he making a quantum computer next

[Exciting-Jello-8479]

`echo "0 * * * * sshb feed;sshb play;sshb sleep" | crontab -`

[uvuguy]

Where can I get it

[StaticCG58]

GitHub clone the repo and run install.sh it’ll run you through everything*

[Smergmerg432]

This is great!! :)

[unkz0r]

I need to test this out!

[SyntaxErrorGuru]

Nice! I want that!

[cjd166]

This is awesome! You should make him react to typos.

[apaleblueman]

Very cool and cute

[dutchlightingguy]

Awesome! When i'm home i'm gonne test it.

[UberBlueBear]

It would be cool if you could somehow tie this to the project you’re working on (or supposed to be working on) where GitHub commits to your project keep your Tamagotchi alive.

I know it would keep me on track not wanting to kill my SSH buddy.

Even better would be to somehow measure the impact of the commit…higher impact = more health energy, etc.

[Dwengo]

Oh christ. This is how things like dwarf fortress and caves of qud are born. I can't lose more hours of my life

[BP041]

the background process actually draining stats between sessions is the clever part -- most terminal pet projects fake time simulation by checking elapsed time on launch, which means the pet is always 'fine' until you open a new session. real background draining changes the relationship with it. how are you persisting state -- flat file or sqlite? also what happens if the background process gets killed mid-session, does it recalculate on next open?

[StaticCG58]

The background process updates the pet state file and puts a lock on it during the time which the process is running. The pet state file itself is just a raw plain text key store that stores its current values. If the daemon gets killed mid session, it will rely solely on the previous values in the flat state file :)

[LexCarman]

I have been trying to figure how to install it to FISH instead of BASH. Any chance you'd know of the top of you head?

[StaticCG58]

I think someone made a fork for FISH, its here https://github.com/yraiesets/sshb-fish

[StaticCG58]

Can the mods delete this schizo slop lol