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1. Gitea Actions Architecture
The continuous integration pipeline automates building and verifying MacMonitor on self-hosted or managed macOS…
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1. Alert Engine Architecture
The Alert Engine runs synchronously after each telemetry digest pass, evaluating threshold conditions against…
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1. Rolling Time-Series Data Architecture
Visualizing 60-second to 1-hour timelines without continuous heap allocation requires a high-performan…
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1. Menu Bar Architecture on macOS Sonoma
macOS 14 provides native support for rich menu bar windows via MenuBarExtra with .window style:
-…
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1. CoreAudio Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
CoreAudio HAL interfaces directly with system audio endpoints:
- `kAudioHardwarePropertyDefaultOu…
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1. Peripheral Bus Topology Architecture
IORegistry planes represent hardware tree hierarchies for external and internal buses:
- `IOUSBHostDevi…
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1. Intel Electrical Telemetry Architecture
Intel Macs report electrical domain metrics across voltage rails, current sense resistors, and…
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1. Intel Component Thermal Mapping
Beyond CPU cores, Intel motherboards contain critical silicon blocks whose temperatures govern fan acoustic…
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1. AppleSmartBattery & Power Source Architecture
On Intel MacBooks, power metrics are delivered through:
IOPowerSources.hfor high-level…
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1. BSD Protocol Control Block (PCB) Architecture
macOS maintains active TCP/UDP socket state tables in kernel memory. These are exposed via…
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1. BSD 64-Bit Network Interface Architecture
Standard getifaddrs returns 32-bit byte counters which overflow quickly on gigabit connections.…
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1. Intel & AMD Dual-GPU Architecture on macOS
Intel Macs feature either integrated Intel GPUs (Iris Plus, UHD 630) or dual-GPU architectures…
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1. macOS Display & Brightness Architecture
- Display Enumeration & Modes: CoreGraphics APIs (
CGGetActiveDisplayList, `CGDisplayCopyDispla…