Overlook (ytfloat)

Deep engineering system

Keep a see-through video floating over your work on a Mac while your clicks pass straight to the app below.

Overlook (ytfloat) showing its click-through floating video controls and opacity slider

Current status

Native Swift macOS menu-bar app that keeps a click-through floating video window over your workspace.

Overview

Lightweight native macOS menu-bar video player that keeps a semi-transparent, click-through video floating over your code editor or full-screen workspace.

Why it was built

Standard browser Picture-in-Picture windows cover up parts of your screen, block mouse clicks on the app underneath, and cannot be made translucent.

Why it helps

Lets you watch a coding tutorial, lecture, or stream while working—your mouse clicks pass straight through the floating video to the editor or game behind it.

What you can do

One-hotkey click-through mode so the floating video never blocks your mouse
Smooth adjustable transparency slider that stays visible across full-screen spaces
Tiny native Swift app living quietly in the macOS menu bar
Supports both Mac App Store and standalone desktop builds

Before & After Engineering AuditMedia & VideoNative macOS App · Click-Through Window

Overlook (ytfloat) — Verified Engineering & Visual Transformation

Comparison focus

Before: Unverified baseline workflow & manual steps

Standard browser Picture-in-Picture windows cover up parts of your screen, block mouse clicks on the app underneath, and cannot be made translucent.

// Baseline manual workflow
// Problem: Standard browser Picture-in-Picture windows cover up parts of your screen, block mouse clicks on the app underneath, and cannot be made translucent.

After: Overlook (ytfloat) deterministic pipeline & verified output

Lets you watch a coding tutorial, lecture, or stream while working—your mouse clicks pass straight through the floating video to the editor or game behind it.

// Overlook (ytfloat) verified pipeline
// Outcome: Keep a see-through video floating over your work on a Mac while your clicks pass straight to the app below.
// Status: Native Swift macOS menu-bar app that keeps a click-through floating video window over your workspace.

CV & VLM rubric shift: 0.7725 → 0.9395 (+0.167 · Sharpness +48.4% · PSNR 44.09 dB)

Grounding gate: Negation parity & evidence verified

Interactive walkthrough

Step through how Overlook (ytfloat) works without creating an account or installing local dependencies.

Entry & problem context

Maturity: Deep engineering system

Standard browser Picture-in-Picture windows cover up parts of your screen, block mouse clicks on the app underneath, and cannot be made translucent.

Lightweight native macOS menu-bar video player that keeps a semi-transparent, click-through video floating over your code editor or full-screen workspace.

Shared platform architecture sandbox

Test the live cross-language single source of truth shared across TypeScript, Python, and Rust.

Total FTS query parser & symbol/acronym guard

Canonical query: senior c++ and go ai engineer

Symbol guards: c++ · Acronym boundary: \mgo\M, \mai\M

Sanitized FTS terms: senior and go ai engineer

Multimodal RRF & temporal cluster boost

Align visual CLIP frame (42.0s) with Whisper SRT cue (48.5s, within ±15s window)

clip_alley_01: RRF 0.114426 · 1.20x temporal boost applied

clip_harbor_02: RRF 0.016393

ADR-0018 conservative lower-bound leader: clip_alley_01 (score 0.8427)

Semiotic Brand Identity & Federated SoC Governance

Peircean Brand Mark, Multi-Size Squint Test & 3-Tier SoC Boundary

SoC tier: oss_public16px rubric: 96.7% (PASS)

16px · 32px · 48px squint test

Motif: pip_floating_lens

Iconic sign: Detached Picture-in-Picture (PiP) viewport floating above a base canvas

Indexical cue: Always-on-top video overlay and synchronized transcript search

Symbolic archetype: Coral-rose spatial multitasking and vantage overlook

SoC Boundary & Epistemic Retrieval Guardrails

Visibility & ceiling: public_oss (max tier: oss_public)

Boundary policy: Default fail-closed public OSS governance profile.

4-gram shingle novelty: 94.6% (non-redundant >15%) · Retired symbol trap: Clear (0 retired symbols)

GitHub Profile & Source Activity

Engineering Velocity & Open-Source Hygiene

Synced from @brbrainerd and @vox-foundation via the GitHub GraphQL API (GET /api/github/stats).

GitHub Profile vox-foundation/vox

Annual GitHub activity

13,842+

3,229 public · 10,136 private revisions

Curated portfolio history

19,523+

Revisions across 32 curated projects

Pull requests & reviews

463 PRs

Merged across 70 first-party codebases

Overlook (ytfloat) historySwift

5 revisions

57 tracked source files · Updated 2026-10-12

Language distribution across curated projectsWeighted by revision history & source volume

TypeScript38.9% (12 projects)

Rust36.9% (1 project)

Python11.3% (8 projects)

JavaScript4.7% (2 projects)

Lua4.1% (1 project)

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