GitHub - jasonlong/mater: 🍅 A simple, native macOS menubar Pomodoro app 🍅 A simple, native macOS menubar Pomodoro app. Contribute to jasonlong/mater development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've updated my old Pomodoro menubar app

* Rewritten in Swift (so macOS-only now)
* Configurable work/break times
* Draggable timer
* Spacebar pause/resume
* New sound effects by snd.dev
* Homebrew-installable

github.com/jasonlong/ma...

I did a little more digging and it looks like you're right because 0.12 added support for vim.lsp.document_color which Tailwind LSP was already making use of

No node_modules but package-lock.json was huge from just a couple dependencies + electron

I think that's the Tailwind LSP server

Git diff showing +1,921 -20,841

Converting a small Electron app to Swift. New version even includes a test suite which didn't exist before.

This is really cool. I'm terrible at it, but it's fun take on io games

Now Homebrew-installable:

brew install jasonlong/tap/octodot

Thanks!

I’ll do this once I’ve got the rough edges smoothed out

Screenshot of Octodot, a menubar app for showing Github notifications.

I never found a menubar app I liked for GitHub notifications, so I've been working on one. It's very keyboard-centric with several Vim keybindings. If you want to test it out: github.com/jasonlong/oc...

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most industrial plants and control rooms of that time, besides the knobs, levers, and buttons, was the use of a very specific seafoam green…” It’s time for some color theory… [bethmathews.substack.com]

How I use Obsidian My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.

Even Steph Ango (Obsidian's CEO) has a minimal setup: stephango.com/vault

Derek Sivers plain text files: sive.rs/plaintext

Sam Altman's Method for Clear Thinking YouTube video by David Perell

Sam Altman's tiny paper notebook: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDmj...

The append-and-review note A simple but powerful approach to note taking

I love how prolific people seem to have the most minimal productivity systems.

Like Andrej Karpathy's single Apple Note: karpathy.bearblog.dev/the-append-a...

This works amazingly well - thanks for the pointer.

Thanks, I'll check it out. Also this looks promising: bsky.app/profile/arun...

Oh nice, I’ll check that out!

Anyone have a good strategy for streamlining updates to Figma components that have drifted from their code counterparts? Figma MCP server is read-only and Figma Make doesn't seem suitable.

Don't overlook the humble <select> element when you need a fancy dropdown. Here we style two selects for a seamless SQL tag picker in the @planetscale.com Traffic Control rule editor.

Introducing Database Traffic Control — PlanetScale Enforce real-time limits on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.

Introducing Database Traffic Control: a Postgres traffic management system built into PlanetScale.

Enforce flexible budgets on your database traffic to protect against unexpected and dangerous workloads.

planetscale.com/blog/introdu...

Sounds like Alan Dye had quite the sweet tooth 🍭🍫🍬

User interface sugar crash – Unsung A blog about software craft and quality

"Earlier on in your career, you are proud you’ve thought about this extra detail, you’ve figured out how to make this animation work and how to fine-tune the curves, and you’ve learned how to implement it…

Later in your experience, you are proud you resisted it." unsung.aresluna.org/user-interfa...

Go back 40 years and some real patterns emerge.

10x10 grid of NCAA basketball tournament scores shown as a heatmap of which scores hit most often.

I was curious what squares historically do best in the NCAA tournament so I had Claude make a heatmap for the past 10 years. Full version: jasonlong.github.io/squares-heat...

GitHub should look into this

The Component Gallery An up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from the world of design systems, designed to be a reference for anyone building user interfaces.

Another good one with almost 100 design systems: component.gallery

Hit area A collection of TailwindCSS utility classes for expanding the hit area of interactive elements.

I've done some one-off hit area tweaks over time, but this Tailwind utility approach is nice. I updated our app so most targets are WCAG-compliant. bazza.dev/craft/2026/h...

Yeah, that and unlocking my password manager is much nicer

Clickable Touch ID Box (TKL board, wired) by Calvin | Download free STL model | Printables.com

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