{"id":50515,"date":"2025-12-19T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50515"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:30:10","slug":"hudlum-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/hudlum-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudlum 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Maurer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The volume indicator, on the other hand, is most important to me when there’s currently no<\/i> sound playing, e.g., because I want to confirm my system is muted (or at least not in “yell loud enough to wake everyone in the house” mode) before<\/i> I start playing a video. And I’d rather do that without having to squint at a tiny slider on a fuzzy-glassy background in an inconvenient spot way outside of my center of attention. A tiny slider on a fuzzy-glassy background in an inconvenient spot way outside of my center of attention, I might add, that doesn’t always update properly when I hit the mute\/unmute key.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Enter Hudlum, the nostalgic retro HUD<\/b>-style system volum<\/b>e indicator for dinosaurs[…] As silly as it may seem, this helped me make peace with macOS 26.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n