# mille-okws/pestinha

> A desktop virtual pet for Windows, macOS and Linux with a 470-neuron spiking neural network, emotions and memory that evolves through user interaction. Runs entirely locally, without the cloud.

- Magnitude: 5.5 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 196 total · +16 stars measured 2026-11-03, 10:39–13:47 UTC, ≈ 43 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Python · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-11-01 · Last push: 2026-11-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/mille-okws/pestinha · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/mille-okws/pestinha

## Useful for

- Run the pet on your desktop so it reacts to the cursor and active windows
- Train the character by petting it with the mouse and watch its behavior change
- Create a custom character by editing the JSON and phrase folder

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-03 (UTC), 10:39–13:47: 180 → 196 stars (+16). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +43 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 196 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #197.
- About 29 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @jacksonfdam (201 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 60
- Issues and pull requests: 10
- Watchers: 3
- Average over the last week: 73 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 6

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-01 … 2026-11-03: 60, 117, 16

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #197

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-03 14:05 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.