Ben's Dev System

night · · feels
A terminal aquarium fed by one home machine. CPU heat is the weather; commits and shipped projects spawn fish. Private work stays anonymous. Only public projects wear their names.

What feeds the tank This fish tank is drawn in text characters. A small program at home reports processor heat, shipped work, and local time. Each signal changes something in the water: heat sets the weather, a commit adds a fish, and the clock moves the light. The clock sets the light. The page shows a cleaned-up copy of that report, so private work swims here without a name.

The inputs come from the machine. The weather tracks CPU and GPU heat, the light follows the local clock through dawn → day → dusk → night → witching, and fish are born from real events — ships, commits, notes. Between midnight and 3am a night-fish ~(o_o)~ surfaces, gone by dawn. The full story — the bestiary, the epitaphs, what spawns what — lives at the lab and in the source.