Sole engineer
Chernobyl Monitor
A native macOS system monitor reading live CPU, memory and process data from the OS, presented as a reactor control room.
Stack
- Tauri
- Rust
- React
- TypeScript
- Vite
- Bun
- sysinfo
Details
- 2026 — in progress
- Source
Context
Reading what every process on the machine is doing to CPU and memory right now takes OS-level access, which a browser tab does not have. That is the reason this one is a native desktop app rather than another web front end.
Approach
A Rust backend reads system and per-process data from macOS through sysinfo and pushes it to the frontend over Tauri 2's IPC bridge, so the measurement work stays on the native side and the React layer only renders what arrives.
Interface
The panel is a 1970s nuclear reactor control room: an analog sweep gauge, LED bargraph columns, seven-segment readouts, a scrolling strip-chart recorder, an annunciator alarm panel and a line-printer process table. Killing a process goes through a guarded switch, so the one irreversible control on the panel is harder to hit by accident than the rest.
Status
In progress. The source is public while the build continues.