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Your Computer Is Busy When You're Not: Building a Desktop Observability Tool with Electron

You close your laptop. The screen goes dark. You assume everything stopped. But what if it didn't? Maybe Docker is still transferring data. Maybe Chrome is still downloading something. Maybe an application is consuming CPU in the background. Maybe your computer woke up at 3 AM, performed some background work, and went back to sleep. Most operating systems already expose pieces of this…

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