A small robot that lives on your desktop. It notices what you are doing and sulks when you forget it. You feed it, you wash it, you play with it. Every robot is unique — yours is drawn the first time you open it.
The installer is not signed with a commercial certificate — those cost several hundred euros a year, and Desky is free. So Windows shows “Windows protected your PC” for any program it does not recognise yet.
Every release ships with its SHA‑256 checksum and a Sigstore provenance attestation. Together they guarantee the file really comes from the public repository, built from the commit it names — and you can check it yourself in two commands :
Get-FileHash .\Desky-0.13.0-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256
gh attestation verify .\Desky-0.13.0-setup.exe --repo HyroHyKen/Desky
The expected checksum is in SHA256SUMS.txt, next to the
installer on the
release
page.
Yours is picked the first time you open Desky, and it is the only choice that is final. Everything else is drawn at random: proportions, exponents, colours, face. The looks can be changed later. The drawings below are taken from the robots the engine actually builds.
The original chassis, assembled without interruption since the very first series. An articulated head on a separate body: it nods, it tilts, it turns around to follow your cursor. Antennas, discs or fins: every ear in the catalogue comes off this line. At Desky Inc. they call it “the one with a neck”.
A single-piece shell, born in a workshop that wanted to do away with the neck joint, the part that came back from customers most often. No ears, no articulation: one large screen, and the whole block turns. The internal note read “fewer parts, fewer headaches”. It is still pinned to the workshop wall.