blobcatd

so once upon a time i got hit with an idea, and now i finally implemented it

this is a daemon (made in bash) that posts blobcats into your notifications, with configurable delay and stuff

features

• it posts blobcats!
• i made a systemd service for it
• i also used this as a reason to finally try doing makefiles, so there even is an automated installation method!
• blobfoxes, neocats and neofoxes included
• you can add your own stuff, too
• configurable delay between notifications

		blobcatd		- by gravitos


inspired in this post: https://wetdry.world/@gravitos/111063551410060977


version blobcatd 0.1


args:
	-h	this
	-c	choose your fighter- i mean, character. these are stored in ~/.config/blobcatd
	-C	specify config dir
	-o	run only once (useful when using with cron or other timers)
	-v	get version
	-t	wait time between each notifications
		(Pause for NUMBER seconds.  SUFFIX may be 's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days. NUMBER need not be an integer. Given two or more arguments, pause for the amount of time specified by the sum of their values.) - man sleep

installation

preparation

you will need notify-send (on arch, provided by libnotify), find (on arch, findutils), awk (tested with gawk) and shuf (from coreutils). if you use arch,

pacman -S --needed libnotify findutils gawk coreutils

should get you there.

installation

git clone https://github.com/gaussandhisgun/blobcatd.git
cd blobcatd
make install

optionally, systemctl --user enable --now blobcatd. make will actually tell you where its located so you can edit it if you need to change the params

removal

systemctl --user disable blobcatd
cd wherever-you-cloned-blobcatd-to
make uninstall

adding your own characters

go to .config/blobcatd. create a folder, name it after your character. put a bunch of images and a plaintext file called strings inside. now, start blobcatd -c yourcharactername. done

credits

• @lewdum for making me come up with the idea
• @esm for conveniently storing emojis on wetdry.world
• @volpeon for most of the emojis
• myself, @gravitos for the blobcat with a laptop emoji and the code
• everyone who sent a PR into here, even if it was not merged

feel free to fork and/or contribute