htop vs btop vs vtop vs ptop: features and a local benchmark
Which terminal system monitor should you use? Compare htop, btop, vtop, and ptop with practical recommendations and reproducible macOS CPU and memory measurements.
Built by Pate (and Claude)
Articles on the software I create, the tools I ship, and the thinking behind all of it.
How to Kill the Process on a Port (Mac, Linux, Windows)
How to kill the process on a port on macOS, Linux and Windows with lsof, ss, fuser and PowerShell. Free up port 3000 and stop EADDRINUSE errors.
ptop: a vtop alternative in Rust with lower memory use
Pate’s top copies vtop in Rust. On an M2 Max, it used 73% less CPU and 92% less own-process memory than vtop. See the benchmark and install instructions.
zsh History Search: histy-cli, a Better Ctrl+R
Browse and search your zsh history in a terminal UI. histy-cli replaces Ctrl+R in zsh, bash and fish: filter by recent, frequent or unique. Run npx histy-cli.
ports-cli: Find and Kill the Process on a TCP Port
Stuck on EADDRINUSE? ports-cli is an interactive terminal UI that lists listening TCP ports and kills the process, with vim keys and search. Run npx ports-cli.
Three Prompts: LLM Pine Scripts
A professional Pine Script indicator library for TradingView, showcasing the challenges of platform limitations and the importance of honest user communication.
Three Prompts: CSV Viewer
Building a feature-rich CSV data viewer with React and PapaParse using just three prompts
Three Prompts: Windsurf Learning
Building a developer-friendly guide to Windsurf AI with React and Vite
Three Prompts: Zod Type Builder
Building an interactive Zod schema builder with React that helps developers create and visualize complex validation schemas with ease.
Three Prompts: Speech To Slides
Create presentations with your voice using this React app that converts speech to beautifully formatted Reveal.js slides
Three Prompts: Diff Tool
A browser-based text comparison tool that highlights differences between two pieces of text, similar to git diff.
Three Prompts: Voice Modulation
Create a voice modulation web app with pitch shifting, speed control, and timbre adjustment using React and Web Audio API
Three Prompts: Rubiks Cube
Building an interactive 3D Rubik's Cube with React, Three.js, and pointer controls in just three prompts
Minesweeper Solver: Watch an AI Clear the Board
Watch a minesweeper solver clear the board in your browser, see its rules, then learn to solve Minesweeper yourself with 1-2-1 and the subset rule.
Three Prompts: MediaPipe Computer Vision Demo
Building a real-time face and body tracking application with MediaPipe and React in just three prompts
Three.js Doom: A First-Person Shooter in React
A Doom-inspired first-person shooter built with React and Three.js in three prompts. See how the 3D scene, enemies and controls came together.
Three Prompts: Software Team Tool Dashboard
A lightweight internal web application for tracking software team members and projects with visual dashboards for capacity management.
How to Beat Impossible Tic Tac Toe (and Why You Can Only Draw)
Can you beat impossible tic tac toe? Not when the AI plays perfectly, but you can always force a draw. The exact moves to never lose, plus a free unbeatable AI to practice against.
React Todo List With IndexedDB and File Attachments
A React todo list with projects and file attachments, saved in IndexedDB and built with React 19 and Vite from three AI prompts. Try the live demo.
Three Prompts: 3D First Test
Creating an interactive 3D shape viewer with Three.js and React that lets users manipulate different geometric shapes in the browser
JavaScript Calculator in React With Exact Decimal Math
A JavaScript calculator built in React from three AI prompts: decimal.js makes 0.1 + 0.2 exact and localStorage saves your history. Play the live demo.
Etch A Sketch Online: Draw in Your Browser
Play Etch A Sketch online: draw with a mouse or finger, pick from seven colors, shake to clear and save a PNG. Built in React from three AI prompts.
Three Prompts: Minesweeper Demo
Creating a fully functional Minesweeper game with React and Vite using just three prompts.
asciiquarium: Install and Run the ASCII Aquarium
How to install asciiquarium on macOS and Linux with Homebrew or npx, plus its controls, classic mode, and fixes for the Perl errors you are likely to hit.
Embedding a GitHub Calendar in a React App
Embedding a GitHub Calendar into a React app is a fairly straightforward process. I used react-github-calendar to do this.
Deploying patebryant.com
Deploying this site was a fairly straightforward process as it only took roughly 30 minutes. Most of the time was spent waiting for the DNS to propagate. Using Vercel made it super easy.
Next.js SEO: Sitemap, Canonical URLs and JSON-LD
A Next.js SEO checklist from fixing this site: a next-sitemap sitemap on the right domain, canonical and Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, and noindex for pages that should stay out of Google.
The new patebryant.com
Over the long weekend of May 27th to May 29th, I decided to rebuild patebryant.com. Previously it had not been much, just a simple netlify template that I had updated the design a little and put in my own new links.
