Hey everyone, I've been working on a Mac app called Solas that turns your desktop into a little living pond. Fish swim around behind your windows while you’re using your Mac. The video probably explains it better than I can. It’s a bit of an unusual side project. A pond on your desktop isn’t exactly solving an urgent problem, but I like making things that are just nice to have around. There’s something relaxing about watching it for a bit between whatever else you’re doing. I shared a recording on Threads recently and it got a lot more attention than I expected. That was pretty encouraging, so I wanted to share it here too and see what people think. For anyone wondering about resource usage: on my M4 MacBook Air, I measured around 8–10% CPU in Activity Monitor and about 185 MB of memory. macOS counts 100% as one CPU core, so that’s roughly a tenth of one core, not 10% of the whole chip. You can also set the pond to pause automatically when your Mac is on battery. Here’s the link if you want to check it out: gleemylabs.com/solas Would you actually keep something like this running on your desktop? Curious how many people are into this sort of thing.   submitted by   /u/wnzojkos [link]   [comments]