Show HN: I couldn't install Caffeine on my work Mac, so I built my own

Category: cli-tool

Tags: macos, menu-bar, utility

Score: 4.0/10 (Innovation: 2, Technical: 3, Documentation: 7, Utility: 4)

CaffeineOSS is a minimalist macOS menu-bar app that prevents the display from sleeping, built as a workaround for MDM-blocked alternatives. It wraps the system's caffeinate command in a Swift UI and emphasizes local compilation to avoid Gatekeeper restrictions. The project is technically simple but has clear documentation and an interesting story about bypassing corporate device policies.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/caffeineOSS · Swift · MIT

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