Balancer

A personal trainer for micro-breaks.

Year: 2026
Made for: macOS
State: shipped

Break reminders tell you to take a break and leave the hard part to you. Dismissing one costs nothing, so I dismissed every one.

Balancer names the exercise. Every prompt is one specific movement with an illustration, chosen so the set rotates across wrists, shoulders, neck, and eyes rather than repeating whatever you last ignored. It picks the movement for you.

It lives in the menu bar and stays out of the way the rest of the time.

How to use it

Nothing to install yet — the repo is private, so there is no public build.

It is a menu bar app. If it opens up it will ship as a .dmg like Islands and dab.

One prompt. The movement is named and drawn, so there is nothing left to decide.

More workEverything

POiO

in progress

A chicken recipe assistant that is turning into a countertop bird.

Islands

shipped

Another macOS window manager. This one accordions.

dab

shipped

Turn any patch of your screen into pixel art.

Sona

concept

A mechanical keyboard with an instrument living inside it.

toss

in progress

Flick a ball off your screen. It lands on a friend's Mac.

Habitus

in progress

Cheap marketplace finds, held to a hundred at a time.

Darkroom

concept

A cube that develops your photos by imagining them.

Branding Oracle

in progress

A brand engine a designer drives and a client never sees.

vaiven

shipped

A Canvas engine where every animation is one JSON config.

pinrip

Pull full-resolution originals out of any Pinterest page.

Command lineshipped

tuckie

Hides menu bar icons and stays at 16 MB.

macOSshipped

Long Exposure

One poem, rewritten by a different machine each time, for as long as I keep it going.

Any modelin progress

The Claude Key

Press F13. Claude Code opens in a new terminal, ready to type.

macOSshipped

music scout

Reads music blogs every morning and fills a playlist.

Pythonshipped

Short Story

Fiction built on two stories at once, after Piglia.

Claude skillshipped

Socratic Claude

A dialogue that asks three questions and then stops.

Claude skillshipped

manita

Makes the pointing hand your system-wide cursor.

macOSshipped

keylock

Lets me set the Corne on top of the MacBook without typing everything twice.

macOS, Swiftshipped

Halo

Talks to a lamp one pixel at a time.

Python, Bluetooth LEshipped

Canon

Keeps the approved design decisions somewhere the model can read them.

Command linein progress

tint

Every project split gets its own brand color in the terminal.

Ghostty, zshshipped

devtools

Answers which dev servers are running and where they came from.

zshshipped

Machine Report

A Turbo Vision system readout, every time a terminal opens.

macOS, bashshipped

Vedic Teacher

Asks who is asking, and will not answer it for you.

Claude skillshipped