I Built a Desktop Pet That Reminds My Mom About Birthdays (and It Got Out of Hand)

It started simple. My mom keeps forgetting birthdays and important dates. I wanted something that lives on her desktop, stays out of the way, and just... reminds her. So I built a small animated desktop pet in Python. Then I kept adding things. What it became: A fully animated desktop companion that lives on top of all windows, sits in the system tray, and has a chat assistant you can talk to in natural language. You can say things like: "birthday Tanya May 28" — it figures out the age, asks how