Jeff Beard
technology

A status bar app for Claude API outages

The recent Claude API outage forced me to pivot to Antigravity CLI. That was probably a good test for maintaining velocity during an outage. I use OpenSpec and a few other processes, so it was straightforward for Antigravity to continue the work.

While I waited, I decided to save a click or two in the future. I started another Antigravity session to gin up a taskbar status app that gives me a signal when the Claude API is impacted. It took about 50 minutes, a chunk of which was me being pedantic about process (OpenSpec, TDD) and failing to create a good icon.

I've since added a local storage with SQLite in order to power a dashboard that covers a longer time horizon. It's open source under the MIT license if you want to try it or build on it.