michaelvillar/timer-app
52.8
Adequate · 30 September 2026
1.2k
lines of production code
Swift
primary language
2
measurements over time
What this system is
This system is a macOS Timer application that provides core functionality for creating, managing, and monitoring countdown timers through a graphical interface. It exposes programmatic control capabilities via a command-line interface, URL schemes, and AppleScript to enable external automation and integration. The codebase includes a structured project with dedicated logic and UI components, supported by comprehensive unit and UI test suites to ensure reliability.
Features
Expanded project structure with new UI components, scripting support, and test targets
The Xcode project has been restructured to include new source files for the timer logic and UI (TimerLogic, MVWindow, MVMainView, MVClockView, and related views), added resources for multiple alert sounds and a credits file, and integrated AppleScript support via a definition file and command handler. Additionally, dedicated test targets (TimerTests and TimerUITests) with multiple test suites have been added to the project configuration.
Timer.xcodeproj · high confidence
New CLI, URL scheme, and scripting support for Timer
Users can now control the Timer app from outside the UI via a new command-line wrapper (\timer-cli\), URL schemes (e.g., \timer://5\), and AppleScript. The CLI supports commands like start, stop, reset, pause, and new, with optional window targeting. This enables automation and integration with other tools, allowing users to manage timers programmatically or via shell scripts.
(repo-wide) · high confidence
Timer app gains AppleScript, CLI, and URL scheme control
The Timer application now supports external automation and integration. Users can control timers via AppleScript (using the defined Timer Suite), command-line arguments (e.g., \--window\), and the custom \timer://\ URL scheme. These interfaces allow starting, stopping, pausing, resetting, and creating new timer windows programmatically, enabling scripting workflows and deep linking into the app.
Timer · high confidence
Behavioural changes
Added shared Xcode scheme for UI tests
The project now includes a shared Xcode scheme (TimerUITests.xcscheme) that configures the build and test actions for the TimerUITests target. This scheme ensures that the main Timer.app is built and launched when running UI tests, and it enables automatic test plan creation to streamline the execution of UI test cases.
Timer.xcodeproj/xcshareddata · high confidence
Removed user-specific Xcode scheme configuration
The user-specific scheme management file (xcschememanagement.plist) for the developer 'michael' has been removed from the project. This change eliminates local Xcode settings such as scheme order hints and buildable autocreation flags from version control, ensuring that these personal workspace configurations do not interfere with other developers' environments.
Timer.xcodeproj/xcuserdata · high confidence
Simplified main menu and updated application configuration
The main menu has been streamlined by removing standard document-related options such as Open, Save, Print, and Edit commands (Undo, Redo, Find, Spelling), reflecting the app's non-document-based nature. Additionally, the application configuration has been updated to use a newer Interface Builder toolset version, and the NSFontManager object has been removed from the main menu hierarchy.
Timer/Base.lproj · high confidence
Test coverage
Added UI test suite for Timer interactions and state management; Added unit tests for TimerLogic.
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How this codebase got here
Score
- CAI 55 → 53 (-1.9)
- Rubric changed (rubric-2026.09.11 → rubric-2026.09.18) — scores are not directly comparable.
Lenses
- Code Health 98 → 98 (+0.0)
- Architecture 69 → 69 (+0.0)
- Maturity 38 → 38 (+0.0)
- Readiness 63 → 60 (-3.0)
- Security 67 → 67 (+0.0)
Resolved (3)
- Documentation: no architecture or design documentation (README.md)
- Documentation: no installation or build instructions (README.md)
- Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1
New (1)
- Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1
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About this page
- The score is its most recent published measurement, taken on 30 September 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
- Measured at commit d94373b718f730e7aad4abd76a3de50baf49de77 — the exact code this score is about.
- Scored under rubric-2026.09.18 — the same rubric and the same method as every other entry in this index.
- Measured by watchdog.canine.dev using codehealth-analyzer preprod-cb25ca4feafa.