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Built a completely free iOS and Apple Watch app for the Magic Work Cycle productivity technique mentioned above. Hopefully others find it useful too tildeslash.com/magicworkcycle/

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Monit Widget updated for macOS 26. Liquid Glass feels futuristic and looks great. According to Hollywood, a fully transparent UI is the future. Though things that look good in movies are not always a good idea in practice.

Did you know that we have created a small, easy to use Open Source Database Connection Pool Library for C and C++? Check it out tildeslash.com/libzdb/

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@C34H32N4O4Fe Read about color coding for network and battery here mmonit.com/widget/ The menubar icon follows this. If either network or battery change status it's reflected in the icon. I.e. critical condition or warning takes precedence over success.

@tildeslash_ I don’t understand. There’s only one indicator. Does it choose whether to display network quality or battery status automatically? What does it base this decision on?

1/ The Monit Widget is basically a rewrite from scratch ("thanks" Apple): There might be some minor issues here and there, such as details panels not expanding correctly. Restarting Monit usually resolves the problem. If issues persist contact us so we can fix them.

@C34H32N4O4Fe At the moment it's both. The menubar icon changes from green to yellow to red depending on battery status and network status.

@tildeslash_ Is it possible to change the information displayed by Monit on the menu bar? Used to be battery level, but lately it's been network quality for some reason (I changed nothing).

3/ I'd love to hear what you think of the new Monit Widget! Share your feedback, or just let us know how you're using it. Here for example I'm testing a local LLM and monitor GPU and Memory usage.

2/ Unlike many system monitors that call resource-heavy command-line tools and scrape the output, Monit uses proper system APIs and builds a process table so we can aggregate CPU, MEM, Disk I/O etc. Accurate process information without adding to your system load.

We've made Monit Widget completely free for everyone! Since our return, we want to make Monit accessible to all. No ads, no in-app purchases — just efficient macOS system monitoring: itunes.apple.com/app/monit/id10… #macOS #Apple #MacApps

..But seriously, don't use memory cleaner apps. They force-purge memory that macOS intentionally uses for caching and performance. MacOS will just rebuild these caches later anyway.

Found a built-in macOS memory cleaner - just zoom in/out repeatedly! 😅 10 GB reclaimed! Here's monitoring this with Monit.

Big Sur has basically axed Notification Center and made Widgets much less useful and more static. It’s nigh impossible to recreate the old user experience. A temp solution is to make it a menu bar app or its own window, to be invoked with a shortcut key, like Alfred. Thoughts?

@ddickison Exactly. The UI has to be rewritten in SwiftUI. The Widget should also support three different sizes and layouts. The old Monit Widget is AppKit based and only the lower system level parts can be reused. It is a lot of work. 😓

@boylan_bob :-) Could take some time though

@tildeslash_ Can't live without Monit ... Big Sur will have to wait!

@seafoodbuffet Thanks, should be fixed now

@watarunabe I've not seen this before. Try turning on font smoothing in preferences. You could also be looking at snapshot image of the widget and not the actual widget. The notification center takes a snapshot picture of widgets to give the illusion of faster startup.

@tildeslash_ Also noticed the widget is blurry/fuzzy on my macbook pro (doesn't look like retina), will this be fixed as well?