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I created btemp

2026-04-07 22:21:41 • by Brian Verkley

https://github.com/bverkley/btemp

I have a new computer, and I wanted to see how the temperature of things like the CPU and NVMe was affected over time.  I've used btop for a long time love  it. (https://github.com/aristocratos/btop)  btop gives me the current temp, and nice little console graphs for utilization of things like cpu, network, memory, etc.  

So I asked cursor to create me an app, inspired by btop, for console graphs of my temp readouts.  In rust, because I don't know the rust programming language at all, and Cursor listed it as a top 3 choice for languages to use for this project.

The app works.  I can visually see how long compiles drives up my temp, and how quickly it recovers.  I pushed the code up to github, and released it to the public.  

So far, no one has cared, but that's ok.  It worked for me, and I'm happy.

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