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I Recreated iPhone's Apple Intelligence Edge Glow Effect on Mac (opens in new tab)

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iPhone's Apple Intelligence shows a beautiful iridescent glow around the screen edges when Siri is thinking. I wanted that same effect on my Mac when Claude Code is working. So I built EdgeGlow — a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that recreates iPhone's edge glow effect on Mac. In this post, I'll walk through how I did it and the technical challenges I faced. How It Works AI Agent triggers hook → curl → Screen glows AI Agent finishes → curl → Glow fades out That's it. Dead simple. The in...

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