utilities

Hemmed is a macOS app that lets users hide menu bar clutter and pin individual actions for quick access, launched on Product Hunt.

Recall for Mac 是一款 macOS 效率工具，提供实时通话转录（无需机器人）、智能剪贴板管理、歌词显示、临时文件架、天气与浮动桌面小组件等功能，支持 Apple Silicon 与 Intel 芯片。

NotchPit 将 Mac 刘海区域改造为一个控制中心，支持音乐歌词、祈祷时间、日程提醒以及 64 种扩展（从运行状态监控到收入统计），可自由拖拽、缩放和滑动布局，采用买断制付费。

iLand 是一款 macOS 应用，可将 MacBook 的刘海变成日常工具工作区，支持音乐控制、拖拽文件托盘、文件转换、截图与录屏，并提供日历、天气、计时器等可自定义小组件。

Netra is a macOS notch utility that adds animated eyes following your cursor, plus built-in tools like a focus timer, clipboard, file shelf, and music controls for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube — all living inside the notch without extra windows.

Notchware turns the MacBook notch into a live island showing Now Playing, battery, volume, and status info, with a $3.99 Pro tier adding alerts for coding agents like Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. It's a native SwiftUI macOS 14.6+ app with no account, analytics, or cloud.

NotchDodo is a new macOS utility that turns the MacBook notch into a dashboard with 14 built-in tools for quick access to handy utilities without interrupting your workflow.

The article details rejected feature requests for GNU Coreutils, explaining why each proposed addition was declined due to existing tool capabilities or inefficiencies.

Cheap Chinese solar panels are driving a global surge in rooftop solar adoption, transforming energy markets and utilities while posing challenges to grid infrastructure and economics.

Release of alchemy-utils 0.1a1, a utility package, noted by Simon Willison.

FoundationModelsKit 2.0.0 is released as a standalone Swift package with runtime checks, schema helpers, token counts, conversation history, and built-in tools for building apps and CLIs with Apple's Foundation Models framework.

GM Energy announces support for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging and a new sodium-ion battery partnership with Peak Energy for grid storage, aiming to ease grid pressure from AI data centers and enable EV owners to contribute energy back to the grid.

TorQ is an open-source production framework for kdb+ that provides core functionality, utilities, and best practices to help developers build and manage kdb+ systems efficiently.

NextEra Energy's $67 billion merger with Dominion Energy is driven by surging electricity demand from data centers, but consumer advocates warn it could lead to higher bills and reduced regulatory oversight.

The article reports on state-level pushback against utility rate hikes driven by AI data center energy demands, with officials accusing utilities of 'blatant corporate greed' as profits soar and consumers face rising bills.

Mnara is a macOS system monitor that displays live Mac metrics directly in the menu bar.