Jake Marsh

how Taskhold's live board stays live: every agent change writes a row to an events table and the browser streams it over server-sent events. an in-process wake for instant updates, a 3 second poll as a backstop, a ping every 15s so proxies don't drop it

Why is my Mac hot? I wanted that answer without opening Activity Monitor, so Multimeter can show watts, fan rpm and macOS thermal pressure right in the menu bar

I'm rebuilding Conditions, the weather app I made in 2013. Same colors, same slab serif, same Climacons, now in SwiftUI with widgets and a Watch app on the way

the thing I kept fumbling with a few agents going: one of them stops to ask me something and I don't notice for way too long now a blocked task jumps to the top of my live board with the agent's question, I reply right there, and it picks up the answer on its next check

At menu bar size you never really see the little details in these, so here are some Multimeter faces blown way up. Any meter can wear any of the 35, and you can switch whenever

my blog is just static files, but I can still schedule posts. Every deploy pre-builds the site as it'll look when each post goes live, and a timer on the server swaps it in

made a little prompt configurator for the Apple pickup trick: pick your size, color and city, copy the prompt, paste it to your agent, get pinged the second an iPhone Duo is ready at a store near you

added live progress to Taskhold. my agents break a task into steps and report as they go, and I get a progress bar per task with which agent is on it, how long it's been running and about how long is left

wrote up the whole story of Multimeter: 16 sources, 35 faces, piping your own numbers in from scripts, building your own faces, and five live meters running at about 3% CPU

Multimeter on a light menu bar. CPU on a little needle gauge, network as a sparkline, an LCD focus timer, memory, and my battery as a row of hearts Every face draws itself for light or dark, so it fits right in either way