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TARS: One Thing Really, Really Well
macOS 27 removed the hook every menu bar manager depends on, and watching them fall apart made me realize how much of their bloat I never wanted. So I built a menu bar hider that does exactly one thing. Named after the Interstellar robot—folds to a slab, unfolds on demand.
Esper: The Desktop from That YouTube Video, For Real
Scott Jenson demoed a desktop where the focused window sits center stage and everything else parks at the edges as small live windows. I watched the talk, then built it for macOS—with mirrors you can actually click.
Cloak: The Sidequest Esper Forced on Me
Every time Esper opened its stage, Do Not Disturb switched on by itself. The culprit was Muzzle, an abandoned utility I'd forgotten I installed. The paid alternative is $12.99. This is the age of personal apps, so I built my own in an afternoon.
Bespoke Menu Bar: Reshaping Stasis and Netfluss Into Apps Just for Me
Two macOS menu bar apps in a week: added features to a battery app that was 80% there, stripped features from a network monitor that was 300% there. What actually changed about open source in the AI-coding era: 'close enough' is now the perfect starting point.
UGREEN LEDs That Actually Mean Something: An Unraid Plugin
Migrated my Unraid NAS to a UGREEN DXP4800 Pro after the old motherboard died. The LEDs on the front did nothing interesting. Forked a driver plugin so the power LED shows array health, the network LED breathes with traffic, and the disk LEDs become a progress bar during parity checks.
Sleeve: A Native macOS VNC Viewer Because Nothing Else Worked
Built a Swift VNC client in a day after Screens couldn't type quote marks to a Windows box and Apple's Screen Sharing rendered the remote desktop wrong. Named after the bodies in Altered Carbon.