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Built two tiny free Mac apps because two small annoyances in my daily workflow were driving me nuts
▲ 6 r/DesarrolloWeb+1 crossposts

Built two tiny free Mac apps because two small annoyances in my daily workflow were driving me nuts

Not really a "look what I made" post, more like: I use these two things literally every single day and figured some of you might have the exact same itch.

So I'm a web/HubSpot developer, and there are two dumb little things I do constantly: pick a color off my screen, and grab a specific chunk of lorem ipsum. Neither should take more than a second, but somehow they always did. So I just built two tiny menu bar apps for myself to kill both annoyances. They're free, no accounts, no ads, nothing to sign up for, just download and run.

First one's called Colores. I used to use an app called Couleurs for picking colors off my screen, but it's Intel-only and macOS is basically killing it off, so I just rebuilt the part I actually cared about, native for Apple Silicon. Click the icon in your menu bar, sample any pixel with the system's built-in loupe, it copies to your clipboard instantly. It floats on top of everything so you can leave it sitting there next to whatever you're working in and just keep grabbing colors without switching windows. Hex/RGB toggle, small history of recent picks, that's basically it. https://github.com/bereto-dev/colores

Second one's Lorem Slider, and honestly it's even dumber but I use it just as much. You drag a slider to however many words of lorem ipsum you need, let go, and it's already on your clipboard. No more opening a new tab, hunting down a generator site, typing a number, copying it out. Same deal: sits in the menu bar, floats on top, remembers the last word count you used. https://github.com/bereto-dev/lorem-slider

Only catch: both are Mac only, and neither is signed (didn't want to bother with an Apple Developer account for something this small), so macOS blocks them the first time you open them. Right-click, Open, Open, and you're past it for good. Source is all right there on GitHub if you want to poke around before running it, or just build it yourself.

Built these purely for my own use, so if you try one and something's missing or bugs you, genuinely tell me, I'll probably just fix it.

u/beretog3 — 9 days ago
▲ 8 r/Asana

I kept underestimating my own logged hours in Asana, so I built a menu bar app that actually gets it right

For the past few weeks I've been trying to keep an eye on how many hours I log in Asana each week against a 40h goal. I didn't want to open Asana every time just to check, so I figured a simple menu bar app pulling from the API would do it.

https://preview.redd.it/7dwlf3w88ffh1.jpg?width=465&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b3e295f8c08dbacaf49db3077556337615933de

Turns out it's not as simple as querying "my tasks". My first version was consistently showing fewer hours than what Asana's own profile page reported for me, off by several hours some weeks. After digging into it I found the actual cause: Asana's own weekly time total counts every task you logged time on, including ones assigned to someone else or to nobody at all (recurring standups, shared client tasks, etc). A plain assignee filter misses all of that.

The fix ended up being combining Asana's Advanced Search with two filters, assignee.any and followers.any (Asana auto follows you on a task the moment you log time on it, even if you're not the assignee), then cross checking the actual time tracking entries per task by date and by author. That got the numbers matching what Asana itself shows almost exactly.

Ended up as a small native Swift menu bar app. It shows hours logged this week vs your goal, whether you're ahead or behind pace, and a breakdown of which tasks ate your time, sorted by most recent log first. You configure your own Personal Access Token, pick your week start day, and set your weekly goal.

Made it open source in case it's useful to anyone else doing consulting or agency work where time tracking against a weekly quota actually matters: https://github.com/bereto-dev/asana-status

Curious if others have run into the same undercounting issue with their own time tracking dashboards or scripts.

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u/beretog3 — 26 days ago
▲ 7 r/Ecoflow_community

I built a macOS menu bar app to monitor my Delta 2 in real time — EFStatus

Hey everyone! Last week I posted here about a Node.js dashboard I built to track my EcoFlow Delta 2 consumption stats. Since then I stripped it down to something much simpler and more practical.

https://preview.redd.it/2zkbe3n352fh1.png?width=532&format=png&auto=webp&s=21728f1f8d1bee121cf0d8f6475f7b8354263ef1

EFStatus is a lightweight macOS menu bar app that shows your EcoFlow battery status in real time — no phone needed, no subscriptions, no extra hardware.

What it shows:

  • Battery % + remaining Wh
  • Visual charge bar
  • Time to full / time to empty
  • Live input and output watts

How it works:
It connects directly to EcoFlow's official OpenAPI using your developer credentials and polls your device every 10 seconds. Everything runs locally on your Mac.

No Dock icon, no clutter — just a small EF⚡ 88% in your menu bar. Click it to see the full panel.

Download & try it:
👉 https://github.com/bereto-dev/efstatus

Pre-built .app included — no Xcode or compiling needed. You'll need free API credentials from developer.ecoflow.com.

Confirmed working on Delta 2, likely compatible with Delta Pro, Delta Max, Delta 2 Max, and River 2 series. 

Would love to hear if anyone tests it on other models!

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u/beretog3 — 28 days ago
▲ 6 r/EcoFlowUsers+1 crossposts

Built a dashboard to track daily kWh on my Delta 2 since the app only shows real-time watts — anyone else missing this?

I've had my Delta 2 for some years and the one thing that's been bugging me is that the EcoFlow app only shows you what's happening right now — 120W in, 85W out — but there's no way to see how many kWh you actually moved through the battery in a day.

I wanted to know things like:

  • Did my solar panels actually cover my usage today?
  • Which days am I drawing more than I'm putting in?
  • What's my monthly consumption trend?

So I built a small background service that polls the EcoFlow API every minute and accumulates the totals. It runs silently on my Mac (or any machine) and serves a local dashboard.

What it shows:

  • Daily kWh in / out with an hourly bar chart
  • Monthly view with per-month bars
  • Navigate any past day or month
  • Year-to-date totals always visible
  • Dark/light mode, CSV export

https://preview.redd.it/1j1seto9n1dh1.png?width=2900&format=png&auto=webp&s=e336d9e70067567ba95c29676d5dbec347d729f4

The question for you all: Is this something you'd actually use? Do you track your energy usage some other way? Would you pay a few dollars/month for a hosted version where you just paste your API keys and it runs in the cloud — no setup needed?

Genuinely curious if this is a "just me" problem or something more people run into.

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u/beretog3 — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/chrome_extensions

I built a free Chrome extension to speed up HubSpot CMS development

Hi everyone,

I just published a small Chrome extension called HubSpot DevTools that simplifies a few things when developing on HubSpot CMS.

When working on templates or themes, I constantly found myself adding parameters like:

?hsCacheBuster

?hsDebug

?hsDebugOnly

or enabling developer mode to test changes.

So I made a simple extension that lets you enable these with one click instead of manually editing URLs.

Features:

• Refresh Cache

• Enable Developer Mode

• Enable Debug Mode

• Faster workflow when testing HubSpot CMS changes

Chrome Web Store:

[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hubspot-devtools/hhifglmiiaaaoofhngnadmnldakijadf\](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hubspot-devtools/hhifglmiiaaaoofhngnadmnldakijadf)

It's completely free.

If you work with HubSpot CMS I'd really appreciate feedback, feature requests, or ideas to improve it.

u/beretog3 — 1 month ago