Dogs Didn't Know What was Plugged in
You know the move. Plug something into your dock. Wonder if it actually registered. Open Disk Utility. Nothing. Unplug it. Plug it back in. Wait. Is that drive mounted or not?
I have a CalDigit with like 6 things plugged in at all times and I was doing this constantly. So I spent a weekend building Dock Monitor.
It puts a little hub icon in your menu bar. Click it and you see every device that's actually connected right now, what it is, and what speed it's running at. Plug something in and it updates instantly.
That's it. That's the app.
It uses ~0% CPU because it listens for macOS events instead of constantly polling — I didn't want to build the thing that fixes one annoyance by creating another.
$7 if you want it:
Happy to take feature requests. The OBSBOT camera is showing a wrench icon which I already know is wrong and will fix in 1.0.1.
The man is keeping me down so if this app sounds interesting, I'll put the URL in the comments.