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Show HN: I redesigned Activity Monitor's dock icon to look native

3 points by rokgregoric 13 days ago · 0 comments · 1 min read


Hey HN,

I like keeping Activity Monitor in my dock, but the default icon always felt off. It technically shows activity, but visually it doesn’t feel like it belongs in macOS — more like a raw canvas than a proper system icon.

So I rebuilt it.

Same app, same data — just a dock icon that looks and behaves like a native macOS component, with a clean, readable CPU graph.

No new features, just fixing how it looks and feels.

Curious if others noticed this too, or if it never bothered you.

https://x.com/rokgregoric/status/2035638066853908844?s=20

https://x.com/rokgregoric/status/2035641264461304028?s=20

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