Hi everyone, I'm Seif. I built HashNotch because the notch on my MacBook was the only part of the screen doing nothing. Everything I wanted to glance at — temperature, battery, what my Mac is downloading, how much data an app is using — lived in three different apps, or in a menu bar I had stopped reading. Now it lives where my eyes already are. Move the pointer to the notch and the panel drops down. Nothing in the Dock, nothing in the menu bar. Macs without a notch get the same panel at the top of the screen. The part I use most: I run AI coding agents all day, and the notch tells me when one of them is waiting on me. The edge lights amber, and one click brings the right window forward. A few things worth knowing: - No telemetry, no account, no sign-in. The only thing it ever fetches from the internet is album artwork. - Free and open source under GPL v3, so you can read exactly what it reads and why before you trust it. - 926 automated checks run before any change reaches the public branch, and every commit and release tag is signed. How it changed while I made it: I built a feature that let me allow or deny an agent's tool call from the notch itself. It worked, and I deleted all of it. It cost a pause on every single tool call to answer a question that usually was not being asked. Now the notch only tells you something is waiting, and you answer where the question actually is. That deletion is the decision I am happiest with in the whole project. It is ad-hoc signed rather than notarised, so macOS will ask you to confirm the first time — the release notes walk you through it in two steps. Requires macOS 12 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel. I would love to know which indicator you would want that is not there yet.

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Local MacBook Dynamic Island (See the Unseen)

Local MacBook Dynamic Island (See the Unseen)