The README already has a rather repugnant LLM-ish feel to it; lots of lists and verboseness, while saying very little.
Also, this is a perplexing choice (which also serves to illustrate the above point regarding verboseness):
White background with red center: 1-9 processes (some development servers)
White background with orange center: 10+ processes (many development servers)
Whenever I see a README or worse, PR description that was obviously generated by an LLM, my immediate response is "if you couldn't be bothered to write this, why should I bother reading this?"
You’re implying that if someone uses AI to write something, the person doesn’t then read it/iterate on it to ensure correctness. Serious “get off my lawn” vibes here.
the person doesn’t then read it/iterate on it to ensure correctness.
As someone who has had to deal with drive-by PRs on open-source projects, which were a problem before but have now gotten much worse in volume as they are mostly AI-generated, yes.
What is "development process" ??? What is "business use case" of this tool? Such a big readme and no introduction to why I should be interested in this tool.
Which is perfectly fine and a fun thing to do. I personally use the terminal but such a little monitoring tool can be quite fun and we should embrace the fun in doing things more. People over here are so soaked up by the Open Source as a business model VC-Pitch that they can't believe it when someone builds a little hobby tool with no business plan for a multi billion dollar exit. You're doing it right buddy. Don't let these Crypto-SaaS-AI-Bros ruin the fun for you.
> Such a big readme and no introduction to why I should be interested in this tool.
This.
Why in the hell would anyone want to kill random processes that open a port in the tange 2000-6000? And why is this need so pressing as to require a full blown monitor integrated in a task bar?
Without context, this sounds like a complete random silly project that makes no sense and serves no purpose at all.
Without context, it sounds like something someone vibe-coded and git push-ed up to the internet. Which is fine, but it's just unusually precise and verbose for something that would end up being a shell alias for most developers.
Interesting idea ("manages development processes running on ports 2000-6000"), and props for hitting the front page though technically this is a "Show HN". Screenshot(s)?
a couple of prompts of claude code gave me this, works well enough, but while I agree that this is sometimes useful, it may indeed better served by a couple of aliases in the terminal
```
#!/bin/bash
# SwiftBar Port Monitor
# Monitors processes on TCP ports 2000-6000
if [ -z "$processes" ]; then
echo "No processes found on ports 2000-6000"
exit 0
fi
# Process each line
while IFS='|' read -r pid name port_info; do
if [ -n "$pid" ] && [ -n "$name" ] && [ -n "$port_info" ]; then
# Extract port number from format like :3000
port=$(echo "$port_info" | sed 's/.://')
# Menu item with port and process name
echo "[$port] $name | color=blue"
# Submenu items
echo "--Kill (TERM) | shell=kill param1=$pid terminal=false refresh=true"
echo "--Kill Force (KILL) | shell=kill param1=-9 param2=$pid terminal=false refresh=true"
echo "--Process Info | shell=ps param1=-p param2=$pid param3=-o param4=pid,ppid,user,command terminal=true"
echo "-----"
fi
Complaining about the number of dependencies is completely meaningless if you don't take into account what those dependencies do, and what the ecosystem looks like.
For example, `tray-icon` looks pretty useful for a lightweight app which basically is a tray icon: rewriting that library from scratch would be a massive waste of time.
On the other end of the spectrum, `log` and `serde` provide basic functionality which most languages will have in their standard library. Rust intentionally keeps a small standard library to avoid ossifying potentially bad ideas. The crates have tens of millions of users, rewriting that yourself would be stupidity.
It's very easy to criticize the length of their dependency list, but could you point to a specific one which you deem unnecessary? Which one do you consider to be a "leftPad", and what trivial code fragment would you replace it with?
I mean this entire thing is doable in a one-liner bash script. This tool has 10 deps (and every one of them also includes a big list of deps, so in practice i probably have over 200 deps).
Its also reckless that you install 200 deps that can in theory read/write and do anything to your OS. How do i know this thing is not listening to my keyboard? Etc...
A uI tray icon is usually a few os calls away. I does not require 200 deps.
I know I am getting old but when did we stop running things on 8xxx? The more 8's the more dev it was. 8000, 8080, 8088, 8888