My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app
Hi HN, like many of you likely do, I run cron jobs throughout the day/night, but can't afford to have my laptop open all day. So, I decided to build goguma, a free, open-source Mac menu bar app that wakes your Mac only when a cron job/automation is scheduled to run. Unlike caffeinate, Amphetamine, or Adrafinil, which can only keep an awake machine awake, goguma can wake a sleeping machine. It automatically imports all your jobs across launchd, crontab, Hermes, etc, alongside detecting agent activity through hooks. The Mac menu bar app will also show you which job it'll next wake…
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Wakes your Mac for scheduled jobs, holds it awake while long work finishes, and lets it sleep otherwise. Finds the cron jobs that have been missing runs; keeps a coding agent running with the lid shut. - junnam586/goguma
Wakes your machine for scheduled jobs, holds it awake while long work finishes, and lets it sleep otherwise. getgoguma.com · Download · Security · Coding agents · Architecture · Updates goguma wakes your machine shortly before each scheduled job, keeps it awake while the job runs, and lets it sleep again as soon as the job is done. goguma doesn't run your jobs; it makes sure the laptop is awake when they fire. A sleeping machine doesn't queue the jobs it missed and catch up later. It misses them outright. Nothing fails, nothing retries, and no error is written anywhere, because as far as the scheduler is concerned nothing went wrong. You find out weeks later, when you notice the digest you…from github.com
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Hi HN, like many of you likely do, I run cron jobs throughout the day/night, but can't afford to have my laptop open all day. So, I decided to build goguma, a free, open-source Mac menu bar app that wakes your Mac only when a cron job/automation is scheduled to run. Unlike caffeinate, Amphetamine, or Adrafinil, which can only keep an awake machine awake, goguma can wake a sleeping machine. It automatically imports all your jobs across launchd, crontab, Hermes, etc, alongside detecting agent activity through hooks. The Mac menu bar app will also show you which job it'll next wake for. It remains safe by skipping wake-ups if it's lower than a battery threshold, and lets the mac sleep if it starts overheating. Happy to hear any feedback and suggestions!
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