dsh-whale-rod-cursor

The cold, system-default cursor in DSH web interface can start to feel flat after a while. dsh-whale-rod-cursor swaps it for a fishing rod whose tip pins exactly to your pointer, with a bouncy elastic line dangling a chibi whale girl as the bait. Pull the mouse and she gets yanked, slingshots out, and settles back with a damped cosine oscillation; pull hard enough and a speech bubble pops up that scales with your force—up to the whale's full height. Let things quiet down and she adds a line of pleading or cuteness; leave the cursor idle long enough and she stages a little fishing-fail comedy all on her own.

Three capabilities do the heavy lifting: a felt-sense physics engine (progressive stiffness plus low damping) where every parameter—stiffness, damping, gravity, rope length—is tunable from the settings page; an interaction hint painted on the rod itself, shifting to bright teal over editable areas, pale gold over buttons, and a 150 ms orange-red flash on click so you always know what is reachable without reading cursor states, and the detection logic never hard-codes any DSH class name; and a pose pack (idle / working / done) that follows the live DSH session state, degrading gracefully to follow-the-swing when the service is unavailable, with zero per-frame rendering overhead. The entire overlay is pointer-events: none, so clicks, drags, and shortcuts work exactly as before, and animation pauses automatically when the tab is hidden.

Best for DSH web users who want a bit of joy in the interface without sacrificing a millisecond of productivity. No build step, no auth—install, restart dsh web, hard-refresh, and you are done. Alt+Esc toggles back to the system cursor at any time, and focus loss, pointer exit, or tab hiding all restore it automatically.