Detective
Redhead, trench coat and hat, metal door. Slides in.
“Your memory has too many suspects.”
When your memory fills up, he makes sure you notice.
A door opens. A dark figure steps out. A card tells you what to close. When memory drops, he goes home.
What it does
1
Under 80%, nothing happens.
He stays out of your way.
2
At 80% or more, the door opens.
The room darkens and he steps out. A card lists the programs using the most memory, and repeats every 5 minutes while memory stays high.
3
Under 75%, he goes home.
The gap between 80 and 75 is on purpose, so he does not flicker in and out.
Real numbers, not guesses
A web page cannot see your whole computer. So a small helper program on your computer shares the real memory use and the biggest programs with the page.
- The helper only listens on your own computer, and needs a code that only your browser knows.
- Asking a program to close always takes two clicks, and it asks politely, so a program with unsaved work can still ask you to save.
- No helper? Use the demo slider, or this browser tab's own memory (Chrome and Edge).
On your desktop
A web page lives inside its browser window. The Windows desktop app goes further: the screen darkens, the door opens in the corner, and he steps out over whatever you were doing. The mouse goes straight through to your work, and only the card takes clicks. It reads your memory itself, so it needs no helper and no account.
It is in the desktop/ folder, and its README explains how to run it and build the installer.
Make him yours
Every choice is a picture of the real figure, so you see it before you pick it.
Face
Outfit
Door
How the door opens, how he arrives, eye color
Swings openSlides openWalks outRises upSlides inDrops down
Finished looks
Five more ship with it. Each one is a single small file.
Ghost
Pale mask, cloak, stage curtain. Rises up.
“Boo. Too many things are open.”
Green Visitor
Green alien, top hat and tails, portal. Drops down.
“Take me to your leader. Then close a few tabs.”
Hooded Figure
Black void, hood and long coat, wooden door. Walks out.
“You are running all of this at once.”
Night Shift
Glowing grin, hoodie and jeans, wooden door. Walks out.
“Long day? You have a lot open.”
See it in under two minutes
Two ways to make your own
Pick from pictures
Open the Look Studio, choose a face, an outfit, a door and an entrance, then press Copy as skin.json.
Edit one small file
cp -r skins/_template skins/my-figure # change skins/my-figure/skin.json npm run check-skins
The check names the exact field if something is wrong. Share yours in community-skins/ with a pull request.
Put it on Vercel
- Put the project in a GitHub repo.
- In Vercel, add a new project, pick the repo, and deploy. The defaults work.
- Open the address Vercel gives you. There is nothing else to set.