i made omanow, a live globe of omarchy machines

i've had this idea pretty much since i started using omarchy and saw all the hype around it. i thought it would be cool to actually see where all of us are.

so i built omanow. it's a pixel globe of the omarchy machines that are online right now, by city. a globe just felt like the most fitting way to show it.

ofc the clips are running a simulated crowd. the real map is pretty empty right now, because it launched today. every dot from here on is a real machine, so it's up to us :)

how it works#

it's two things: a plugin for the omarchy bar and a website.

the plugin puts a small globe in your bar, hidden like the indicators until you hover. click it, pick your city, flip the switch, and your machine counts toward that city while it's online. switch it off and you're gone.

the website draws the globe. busier cities glow brighter, and every new machine shoots a little burst of particles into the logo. drag to spin it, scroll to zoom until city names show up.

you can also click any city and wave at it 👋 ❤️ ☕ 🔥 🌙. everyone watching sees it pop up from that city, and people there see how many waves they got right in their bar. there's also a history of how many of us were on the map each day.

only machines running the plugin count. just opening the website doesn't put you on the map.

meetups are on it too#

green pins are every omarchy meetup from omarchy.org/meetups, past and upcoming. click one for the date, the place and a link to sign up.

in your theme#

all the stock omarchy themes are there. open the map from the plugin and it uses yours, and if you switch themes while it's open, the map switches with it.

what it knows about you#

privacy matters, nobody should be identifiable on this map:

• while sharing is on, the plugin sends your city and a random install id once an hour. no names, accounts, ip addresses, coordinates, cookies or analytics.
• cities with fewer than three machines get a dim dot with no count, and only change on the hour, so nobody can tell when you're online.
• switch it off and you're gone right away. otherwise everything about your machine is deleted a day after its last check-in.

the locate button guesses your city from your weather setting or timezone, on your machine. coordinates never leave it.

how i built it#

i vibed this one. the code is pretty much all generated, the decisions are mine, and honestly i think it turned out pretty good.

omarchy installs plugins by cloning a git repo, so the plugin lives in its own repo, omanow-plugin, and everything in there is generated. the real work happens in the monorepo. when a release merges there, ci builds the plugin and pushes it to the plugin repo with a tag, so omarchy plugin update just picks it up.

ok, for the nerds like me :) it's all on cloudflare workers. the whole map is literally one durable object with sqlite, that's it. your plugin pings it once an hour, and once a minute it batches whatever changed and pushes it to everyone watching over websockets (hibernating ones, so idle tabs cost pretty much nothing). the globe itself is a tiny pixel renderer in plain js, no libraries, no dom, it just draws into a pixel buffer and scales it up. the plugin is a qml widget that shares the city list and theme code with the website, which is why the map looks exactly like your omarchy theme.

it's all open source, mit. the code that sends stuff is short, so feel free to check it yourself.

try it#

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/mark-omarov/omanow-plugin --enable
omarchy bar move io.github.mark-omarov.omanow --after omarchy.indicators

it's also on the omarchy plugin marketplace. if your city isn't on the map, nobody there has switched it on yet.

what's next#

i really hope the community picks it up, and if people actually run it, there's more coming. i have a few bigger ideas too, but for now they're just ideas.

if you try it, tell me what you think, issues are open on github. and if you like it, a star on github or a heart on the plugin page helps other omarchy people find it.