I just open-sourced a macOS desktop widget for the FIFA World Cup 2026. Here's what it does and how it's built.

What it does

🔴 Live scores — updated every 3 seconds via the ESPN public API (no API key needed)

📅 Full schedule — all 104 games grouped by day, with venues and round labels

📻 20+ radio streams — ARD, ZDF, BBC, NPR and more, played via mpv

🗣 German TTS commentary — macOS say announces goals, kick-offs and final whistles

📊 Play-by-play — ESPN event feed with goal / card / substitution highlights

📺 Live ticker panel — slide-out side panel with real-time scores for all live games

⏳ Countdown — days · hours · minutes until the tournament kicks off (June 11, 2026)

🖥 Responsive — adapts width for 1440p · 1080p · 2560p · 4K displays

Architecture

The widget has three parts:

1. wm2026.jsx — An Übersicht widget (JSX/React-like syntax). Runs a shell command every 3 seconds to fetch ESPN data and writes it to ~/.wm2026/ .

2. wm2026_server.py — A Flask backend on 127.0.0.1:9876 .…