Jake Marsh

Every Multimeter meter goes yellow, then red, at levels you pick. CPU above 90, battery below 10, disk above 95, or any number of your own. Notifications are optional and never nag

Notarizing a Mac app for direct download: sign inside out without --deep, staple the app before it goes in the DMG, then check what people download

If a script can print a number, Multimeter can put it in the menu bar. open -g "multimeter://set?key=deploys&value=42" from anywhere, or let it run a command on a schedule

working, stuck, or done? with a few agents going you can't tell from the terminal. on the Taskhold live board each agent's steps fill in as it reports, and the one waiting on you is flagged at the top

The battery health keys most Mac snippets read aren't at the top level anymore. Where they moved, why MaxCapacity is a percentage now, and a Swift reader that checks every layout

giving claude a phone on claude.ai: Customize > Connectors > Add > Add custom connector, paste the URL from the reply, then Connect. a tab opens and closes, no email or card the desktop and mobile apps pick it up too since they share connectors

Magic Mouse batteries always seem to die mid-call. Multimeter puts your mouse, keyboard and trackpad batteries in the menu bar next to the Mac's, and can ping you at 10%

If your menu bar app's Settings window opens behind everything, the app never activated. Why that happens, the calls that bring it to the front, and what changed in macOS 14

Made a 3 minute video on why Macs get hot: the one-minute Activity Monitor check, then the 6 usual causes (busy tabs, Spotlight catching up, charging while you work, blocked vents, Intel apps under Rosetta, login items), each recorded on a real Mac