Swedish designer & tinkerer in Milan. Product design by day; local-first open-source, AI tooling & music by night. Latest: https://xitter.cf/t.co/BfXhuJkusO
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My website kept going down, and every monitoring tool wanted an account, a dashboard and a subscription to tell me one thing.
So I built a Mac menu bar app that answers it at a glance.
Meet MonoBar. 🧵
MonoBar is free: one website, monitored completely. Not a trial, not a crippled demo.
MonoBar Pro adds up to 25 sites, 10 more status services like GitHub and Cloudflare, and native notifications. €14 once, up to 3 Macs. No subscription. I hate those too.
Signed, notarized, no account, set up in less time than a coffee. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.
Now on the Mac App Store, or download it directly:
apps.apple.com/app/id6796800…
monobar.app
Why I built it: annbjer.studio/articles/quie…
just finished Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Feels like so much more than just a game – it's the closest i've ever had to a spiritual experience in this art form.
Finally free to touch grass again 🌱
I was becoming a human chair, glued to screens watching Pi agents scroll by. At brain overload point, I asked the AI to build me something simple – just ping when the agent finishes. No prompts, no outputs. Just "done".
Free and open source, written in Swift to keep things native across macOS/iOS/watchOS.
Still working out simpler setup flow but honestly just ask your Pi agent to install it for you 😄
Using it daily and it’s definitely a personal workflow improvement — wish I'd built it sooner but happy it’s live now.
PiPing is independent and unofficial. Huge thanks to @pidotdev for making it easy to build extensions. Just a tool I made because I was tired of babysitting AIs 🌿 Let's go touch some actual grass already!
My terminal runs three different AI coding agents but couldn't show me what any of them were doing to my project.
So I built the missing pane.
sidelight: a local-first, read-only project view that lives in a terminal split beside your agent.
Built in one weekend + two days by an odd little team: me (the only human) making the calls, Fable as architect, Codex writing the code, Opus & GPT-5.5 auditing – five audits, real bugs caught before launch.
The full story:
xitter.cf/annbjer/status/2075008…
Get it:
npm i -g sidelight
Works beside PI, Claude Code, and Codex with one command each to enable session tracking. MIT, free, no strings.
github.com/annbjer/sidelight
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proud to see @joshpxyne and @coframe keep pushing what’s possible with self-improving interfaces
We drove 410% conversion lift on @Replit's enterprise funnel, 2x-ing the number of demo requests. All in a matter of months.
"Coframe makes you feel like you have a team of 100 people. There's nothing on the market like it."
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got tired of manually filling wallet avatar placeholders in Figma tables, so i made a small blockies generator.
now live as a @figma plugin:
select frames → choose Catppuccin Mocha or B&W → generate editable vector blockies.
figma.com/community/plugin/1…
source is open on GitHub too, including a CLI for generating PNG/SVG blockies from the terminal.
github.com/annbjer/catppucci…