I took my son to his first drum lesson today. It was awesome. His rock and roll career is fated.
At some point the teacher pulled up a PDF on a screen and was guiding my son through some simple patterns. I noticed that it was kind of hard to see a moving cursor on a white screen.
This happens to me too when I’m on a conference call and sharing my screen. All I want to do is point out stuff on the screen and it’s sometimes hard to get people to look where I want them to look.
So instead of paying close attention to what my son was learning and how to support him in his practicing, I started daydreaming about how to fix this problem.
There are tools to highlight your mouse that I can install on my Mac, and there are extensions I can install in Chrome too. But that seems like overkill. I don’t wanna drain my precious RAM with an ever-present system doohickey. I don’t want yet another browser extension hanging out all the time and bloating my browser’s RAM footprint either. Inefficiency!
A bookmarklet can do this, so I made one. When you click the bookmarklet, it draws a circle around your mouse pointer. When you click it again, the circle goes away. Read more and install it here.