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.
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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.
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