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☕ Caffeinate your Mac — a tiny menu-bar app that keeps macOS awake. ~120 lines of Swift, zero deps, no kexts. Built locally because MDM blocked everything else.

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I couldn't install Caffeine on my work Mac, so I built my own

Name: I couldn't install Caffeine on my work Mac, so I built my own
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Author: kuberwastaken

by kuberwastaken·Jun 25, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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●MidCozyNiche Gem

MDM-proof caffeine clone that compiles locally to skip quarantine flags.

Strengths

•Local compilation bypasses MDM block on pre-built apps and quarantine flags.
•Zero dependencies, 120 lines of Swift using public IOKit APIs only.
•Timed modes (30min/1h/2h/5h) with auto-off and menu-bar only UI.

Weaknesses

•Core functionality already solved by KeepingYouAwake, Caffeine, and caffeinate CLI.
•Only useful if you're blocked by MDM — most users have better alternatives.

Post Description

I like my agents running while the laptop's closed and I like seeing the caffeine icon on my dock

I just asked Claude to build one and it built it almost perfectly

To me it completely feels like a new lens of just building hypercustomised day-to-day utility apps yourselves instead of paying for / installing one

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