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[OS] Blinkendisk: A tiny little retro macOS app written by a "Celebrity Developer"
I have no affiliation with this project or with the developer, however I do follow him on social media and I do think this is cool from a retro perspective. Dave Plummer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer wrote a bunch of very early core Windows applications such as Task Manager and has his fingerprints on many back-end elements of products such as WindowsXP. Today he released BlinkenDisk for macOS which is a little toolbar app that recreates the retro-feature of an LED that blinks with HD use. https://github.com/davepl/BlinkenDisk
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Here is how it looks in case someone also wondered :)
Is this the same guy who does Youtube videos? If it is he does one talking about building the windows task manager that is pretty interesting.
Does it add the hard drive seeking sound too? Computers used to be so noisy
There are so many different hard drive sounds you could do. I suppose I could look it up, but I wonder if someone has mic'ed a bunch of vintage drives to capture those sounds.
Haha Interesting
Nice. I’ve been following Dave on YouTube, good to learn about his project.
Things were better when they were worse 🙂
Nice, thanks for sharing! I've been following him for years on Youtube, I think his insights are incredibly valuable.
I'll soon need some sort of extra toolbar where I can put all of these small, but fun toolbar apps that are clogging up my menu bar. Or maybe a second screen that's just one extra long toolbar grid.
I won't install (already maxing out my RAM) but that doesn't mean that I don't love it.
Too Cool!! I love it.
This is so ridiculously unnecessary and I kinda want it immediately
lol nice naming
I'm a bit averse to change and have used MenuMeters (original, 'modern' version) for over 20 years. It has this!
This apps where very common years ago
looks so cool :)
Genius idea. Love it. Thanks Dave!