Blinken vs Telem

A macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed.

Telem AI builds infrastructure for AI agents: web search routing, web fetch routing, and agent observability.

About Blinken

A macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed. A small red lamp in your menu bar, brightening when your disk is working. Adaptive sampling means it's responsive when your disk is busy and quiet when your Mac is at rest. Warms toward orange when your Mac is leaning on the swap file. Open the dropdown for read & write totals since boot, RAM in use, swap on disk, and the kernel's pressure level.

About Telem

Telem AI builds infrastructure for AI agents: web search routing, web fetch routing, and agent observability. Agents are only as good as the substrate they run on. Telem AI builds the layer between your agents and the open web: routing every search and fetch to the best provider, and observing every step so you can trust what ships.