TokenGesture — Porthub https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/ A macOS menu bar control surface for the portless dev proxy — and the bootstrap script that keeps it honest. en © 2025–2026 Miles Lord The bootstrap saga: zombie proxies, silent 404s, and pipefail landmines https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/bootstrap-saga/ https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/bootstrap-saga/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Porthub bash debugging dev-tools Three months of debugging one bash script — every way a local HTTPS proxy can look alive while being dead, and the porthub bootstrap that now refuses to be fooled. porthub.mcp: the menu bar app that registered itself as a route https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/mcp-in-the-menu-bar/ https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/mcp-in-the-menu-bar/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Porthub mcp dev-tools Porthub now serves MCP over the very proxy it controls — five tools, a random port, and a self-registration trick I'm disproportionately pleased with. A menu bar app whose API is three files in /tmp https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/menu-bar-control-surface/ https://tokengesture.ai/porthub/menu-bar-control-surface/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT Porthub electron macos dev-tools Porthub is 750 lines of vanilla Electron that watches the portless proxy's state files — no daemon protocol, no sockets, just fs.watch and a healthy respect for EPERM.