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Small utilities I build for myself first, then share. A Mac app and a couple of command line tools, all free and open source.

mac apps 1

MacLens

Know your Mac · macOS 13+ · Apple Silicon

A native macOS app that gathers your Mac’s hardware, battery, storage, performance and display details into one clean dashboard. No analytics and no network calls. Everything is read locally.

hardware
battery
storage
performance
graphics

Download for macOS Source on GitHub Version 1.5 · 2.2 MB · MIT

install


            # download the .dmg, drag MacLens into Applications
            # or build it with the Xcode Command Line Tools
            $ git clone https://github.com/bsamson00/MacLens.git
            $ cd MacLens && ./build.sh
            $ open build/MacLens.app

command line 2

DotSeek

Find available domains · Go · Namecheap API

Fast, cached, batch domain availability checks from the terminal. Check a list of domains, or one name across many TLDs, and get the results in a grid sized to your terminal.

batch checks
caching
TLD filters
JSON/CSV export
whois

Source on GitHub CLI · Go · MIT

install


            # needs Go 1.26.5+ and Namecheap API access
            $ go install github.com/bsamson00/dotseek@latest
            $ dotseek doctor
            $ dotseek myapp -l "<=3"

Spinup

Server bootstrap · Ubuntu 24.04 + 26.04

Interactive first-boot setup for fresh Ubuntu servers and VMs. A form picks the options, a review screen confirms them, then it installs, hardens and reboots. I built it so I could stop repeating the same setup by hand.

SSH hardening
Docker
Node.js LTS
AI agents
Tailscale

Source on GitHub TUI · Go + Bash · MIT

install


            # Go: builds as your user, runs with sudo
            $ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bsamson00/spinup/main/golang/run.sh | bash
             
            # Bash: the original script, run as root
            $ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bsamson00/spinup/main/setup.sh | sudo bash
             
            # nothing changes until you confirm; it reboots when done

More small tools are on the way. Have an idea or found a bug? Tell me.