Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
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This hits Brian's sweet spot of practical engineering craft and developer productivity tools. The deep dive into macOS APIs, the progression from hacky root-required solution to elegant notification-based approach, and the real-world problem of thermal throttling on Apple Silicon would resonate with his experience building dev tools and Chrome extensions.
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Engineering craft/architecture/productivity - Core focus on developer tooling and system monitoring Side projects/automation/earning from skills - Perfect example of scratching your own itch with a useful tool AI/agents/future of software work - Tangentially relevant for understanding performance constraints when running AI workloads locally
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"Why I Built a Mac Thermal Monitor (And You Should Too)"
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"The Hidden Performance Tax of External Displays"
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"From Heuristics to Ground Truth: Building Better Dev Monitoring"
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"The macOS API You've Never Heard Of (But Should Use)"
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#thermal-monitoring
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#system-programming
#dev-productivity
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