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WattsOrbit goes public on Friday June 5 — the May 29 slot slipped one more week so we could finish QA on the new battery-health surface and 80% charge-limit alerts. Same drop date as CloudOrbit.

• Real-time watts in / watts out
• Per-USB-device wattage breakdown
• Battery cycles, temperature, and capacity
• Smart notifications (weak charger, low battery, 80% charge limit)

Free and open source. MIT.

The first stable build of CloudOrbit drops on Friday June 5 — the May 29 slot slipped one more week to finish the SSO + kubeconfig QA. Same launch window as WattsOrbit.

• AWS SSO session manager, no terminal needed
• Auto-updates kubeconfig as you switch profiles
• Detects EKS clusters from your active session
• Works behind Cloudflare and corporate proxies

Free, native Rust binary. Sign up to get notified the moment it ships.

The native DynamoDB GUI for macOS now ships Monday June 15 — moved from May 29 to give the cross-table join engine and live-stream UI a longer soak.

• Live DynamoDB Streams
• Cross-table joins (inner / left / left-anti / right / right-anti)
• Full query history
• No Electron, no JVM warm-up — pure Rust + Tauri

Free forever. MIT licensed.

What's new

• Bug fixes and stability improvements for JCEF panel
• Better handling of malformed mermaid blocks (no more frozen preview)
• Mermaid 10.9.3 bundled — works fully offline / air-gapped

ProxyOrbit has slipped off its June 12 slot. The MITM cert chain and Zscaler workaround flow need another QA pass before going public.

• Capture HTTP/HTTPS from any Mac app
• Filter by method, status, host, path
• Real-time request log with body inspection
• Native Rust + Hyper + Tokio — under 30 MB at idle

No subscription, no $50 license. MIT. Sign up to get notified the moment a date is locked.

BastionOrbit has been moved off its July 3 slot. The auto-expiry TTL flow and multi-bastion connectivity probe need more soak time before going public.

• One-click port forwarding through bastion hosts
• Auto-expiry TTL — never leave a tunnel open overnight
• Multi-bastion management with connectivity probing
• Pairs with DataOrbit for tunneled DB connections

Real ssh -N -L processes — no protocol reimplementation. Free forever. Sign up for the launch date drop.

What's new

• NewsBell in the tray popup — unread dot and release-notes dropdown
• News screen in the Dashboard with markdown rendering and pull-to-refresh
• UpdaterModal replaces the old banner — changelog, download progress, in-app install
• Homebrew Cask auto-updates on every release publish

Scanning large DynamoDB tables is slow and expensive. Use Global Secondary Indexes to turn full-table scans into targeted key lookups.

In DataOrbit's query builder, open the Index dropdown to pick a GSI — the filter fields automatically update to match the index's partition and sort key.

Always prefer a GSI query over a Scan when you know the access pattern.

Mermaid Preview (JetBrains plugin) is live. Up next: CloudOrbit + WattsOrbit ship together on Friday June 5, then DataOrbit lands on Monday June 15.

klight, ProxyOrbit, and BastionOrbit have all been moved to TBD later in 2026 — we'd rather hold them until they're done than ship to a deadline.

All free, all native, all open source.

By default the tray popup hides when it loses focus. Hold ⌥ (Option) while clicking the menu-bar icon and the popup stays pinned — useful when you want to watch wattage drift while you do something else.

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