Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor

Also, this is a perplexing choice (which also serves to illustrate the above point regarding verboseness):

    White background with red center: 1-9 processes (some development servers) 
    White background with orange center: 10+ processes (many development servers)

This.

Why in the hell would anyone want to kill random processes that open a port in the tange 2000-6000? And why is this need so pressing as to require a full blown monitor integrated in a task bar?

Without context, this sounds like a complete random silly project that makes no sense and serves no purpose at all.

# SwiftBar Port Monitor # Monitors processes on TCP ports 2000-6000

# Menu bar title echo " Ports" echo "---"

# Get processes listening on TCP ports 2000-6000 processes=$(lsof -iTCP:2000-6000 -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1 {print $2 "|" $1 "|" $9}' | sort -t'|' -k3 -n)

if [ -z "$processes" ]; then echo "No processes found on ports 2000-6000" exit 0 fi

# Process each line while IFS='|' read -r pid name port_info; do if [ -n "$pid" ] && [ -n "$name" ] && [ -n "$port_info" ]; then # Extract port number from format like :3000 port=$(echo "$port_info" | sed 's/.://')

        # Menu item with port and process name
        echo "[$port] $name | color=blue"
        
        # Submenu items
        echo "--Kill (TERM) | shell=kill param1=$pid terminal=false refresh=true"
        echo "--Kill Force (KILL) | shell=kill param1=-9 param2=$pid terminal=false refresh=true"
        echo "--Process Info | shell=ps param1=-p param2=$pid param3=-o param4=pid,ppid,user,command terminal=true"
        echo "-----"
    fi

# Refresh option echo "---" echo "Refresh | refresh=true

For example, `tray-icon` looks pretty useful for a lightweight app which basically is a tray icon: rewriting that library from scratch would be a massive waste of time.

On the other end of the spectrum, `log` and `serde` provide basic functionality which most languages will have in their standard library. Rust intentionally keeps a small standard library to avoid ossifying potentially bad ideas. The crates have tens of millions of users, rewriting that yourself would be stupidity.

It's very easy to criticize the length of their dependency list, but could you point to a specific one which you deem unnecessary? Which one do you consider to be a "leftPad", and what trivial code fragment would you replace it with?