PawPause: An open-source macOS app that detects and blocks cat-typing on your keyboard
By
Milad Safarzadeh
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Summary
PawPause is a tiny macOS menu bar app that detects when a cat walks on the keyboard and suppresses the input system-wide. Built in a day using Claude (Opus 4.8), it works 100% on-device, is open source and free on GitHub. The app reads the distinct patterns of cat-typing (multiple keys hit at once, rolling across neighbors, no spaces, no structure) and clamps the input while allowing normal human typing to pass through.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledYou step away for ten seconds, come back, and 'dffffgggghhhjkl;;;' is now live in #general.
So I built something to stop it. Idea to live on GitHub in a day with Claude (Opus 4.8).
It's a tiny app to catch cat-typing and suppress it, while letting humans type normally.
It reads the patterns a cat makes (paws hit several keys at once, roll across neighbors, no spaces, no structure) and clamps the input.
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