CuriousBit · Ajay Walia
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LumenAI, running on the box

Five frames from the live app — the three-pane main window, subscriptions walking out of The Old Reader via OPML, a fully loaded feed list, the memory bill, and the one-command DMG build. Click any image to enlarge.

LumenAI main window in dark mode — sidebar with Smart Views, article list, and empty reader pane
01 · MAIN WINDOW · DARK MODE

The three-pane shell, for real this time

Sidebar with Smart Views (Today, Unread, Starred, All Articles) and feeds with unread badges, the article list with summaries and timestamps, and the reader pane waiting on the right. This is the Phase 0 scaffold all grown up — pure SwiftUI, native to its bones.

SwiftUIthree-panesmart views
macOS open panel selecting an OPML subscriptions backup file for import
02 · OPML IMPORT

Subscriptions walking out of The Old Reader

The Phase 5 payoff: a standard macOS open panel pointed at subscriptions_backup.opml — years of feeds leaving the browser-tab reader with folder structure intact. Export works the same way, so the data can leave LumenAI just as easily as it arrived.

OPMLno lock-in
LumenAI sidebar fully loaded with dozens of feeds, favicons, and unread counts, with an article selected
03 · FEEDS LOADED

The real subscription list, badges and all

Dozens of imported feeds with favicons and unread counts — Slashdot, Hacker News, Stratechery, ZDNet, Reddit and friends — with an article selected in the indigo highlight. Every one of these articles is stored locally in SQLite, deduplicated and FTS5-indexed.

faviconsunread countsSQLite
Activity Monitor showing LumenAI using 143 MB of memory
04 · ACTIVITY MONITOR

The whole bill: 143 MB

LumenAI at work in Activity Monitor — about 143 MB for the app, plus small WebKit helper processes for networking and rendering. A full RSS reader with offline full-text search costs less memory than a couple of pinned browser tabs.

143 MBnative
Terminal running make_dmg.sh — staging DMG contents and creating LumenAI.dmg with notarization instructions
05 · ONE-COMMAND DMG

./Scripts/make_dmg.sh

The Phase 7 finale: one script signs the app, stages the drag-to-Applications layout, and produces LumenAI.dmg on the Desktop — with the notarytool commands printed for distribution beyond this Mac. From empty folder to installer, one command at the end.

codesignDMGnotarizable
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