chaseleantj/deskworlds — what it is and what it’s for

About the project

A living aquarium on your macOS desktop: fish react to your cursor and compete for food while plants sway in a slow current. The scene renders locally with Three.js and WebGL2, fully offline.

Useful for

Install an animated aquarium wallpaper on macOS via install.sh
Feed the fish from the menu bar and watch them react
Preview Riverscape in a browser without installing the wallpaper

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
The repository is 9 days old and already has 292 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 292
Today: 1 · ≈ 2 by evening
Forks: 37
Issues and pull requests: 8
Watchers: 2
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Created: September 18, 2026
Last push: September 27, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 24, 2026Top new repositories this week: #67
September 23, 2026Top new repositories this week: #75
September 22, 2026Top new repositories this week: #83
September 21, 2026Top new repositories this week: #80
September 20, 2026Top new repositories this week: #79
September 19, 2026Top new repositories this week: #81
September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #102

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