[tbreschi]

Hey HN I'm Terrence and I built Javalamp, a terminal "lava lamp" screensaver that keeps your mac awake while your agents/tools are running.

I built it because I kept having longer running coding/AI jobs pause when my Mac went to sleep, and I wanted something lightweight and fun that lived in the terminal.

I’m curious whether others have this problem too and what features would make this actually useful (metrics, different visualizations, non-Mac support, etc.).

Feedback on both the idea and the implementation is very welcome.

Thanks!

[gus_massa]

Do you ha ve some screenshots or better a short video?

Does the lava lamp stops when the AI job stops? So...

1) ... I can see it and look at the result

2) ... the computer get's bored and go to sleep and save electricity

[tbreschi]

1.. I’d have to think through about how to wire it up to listen to the other terminal where the job is running, but yeah I suppose this could work.

2. Yeah this is a smart feature would be cool.

Thanks for the feedback!