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New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:21:30 +0000

Added to the list!

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:20:25 +0000

Thanks! HN gave me great bug reports and feature requests. Claude helped me ship fast. 16 releases in 7 hours is a lot easier with a decent pair programmer.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:51:56 +0000

I did indeed test it. Had the idea, and wanted to get it going.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:51:04 +0000

Added

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sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:50:31 +0000

That's a great idea.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:32:32 +0000

I like this idea.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:19:49 +0000

It works for me, but I understand for others it might not. So, there's now a "Show in menu bar" toggle in Settings. Turn it off and WhatCable runs as a regular Dock app with a normal window instead.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:15:03 +0000

That's added.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:41:09 +0000

I'm working on a Windows version.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:40:42 +0000

This has been fixed now, apologies.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:40:20 +0000

I'll look into this.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:34:39 +0000

Hi, should be fixed now.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables"

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:34:19 +0000

Thanks for taking a look, just pleased other people find it useful.

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

sleepingNomad — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:43:45 +0000

USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in the drawer.

WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging wattage, data speed, display support, Thunderbolt, etc.

Built in Swift/SwiftUI. Open source, free, no tracking.

GitHub: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972511

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sleepingNomad — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:09:40 +0000

Sadly a little late this news, maybe I can save my spawn.

New comment by sleepingNomad in "Tell HN: Unpopular opinion: All Meta's open source front end stuff sucks"

sleepingNomad — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:48:58 +0000

I'm not sure about overcomplicated, but I agree that it's not the best path. Have you used Meta's products?

As a regular user of Meta Business Suite and other Meta social products I can tell you that they are terrible and full of issues. The creators of React make web apps that are awful to use. What chance do the rest of us have?