Under the hood: a Python script turns the message into speech with an open-source voice model (Kokoro), draws the error card, feeds both into a virtual camera and microphone, then drives FaceTime with AppleScript. It watches the screen to tell whether you picked up, and if nobody answers it tries again every ten minutes.

A watcher runs every minute and checks the internet, both lines, response times, websites, certificates, disk space, weather alerts, and helicopters hovering near the house. Anything that goes down has to stay down for two checks before he picks up the phone.

It's one small Swift file with no dependencies: a borderless window above everything else, a text layer, and a timer. You call it from the end of any long command: make; marquee "done".

When Lintel is running, banners go to its taskbar instead, the way Windows 95 flashed a button when an app wanted you.

Written in Swift and AppKit. It hides the real menu bar, draws its own bar in its place, and reads each app's menus through the Accessibility API so they still work. Minimizing animates into the taskbar, since there's no Dock to minimize into.

The add-ons are separate apps: Notepad keeps old text encodings and line endings intact, Paint has all sixteen tools, and Task Manager draws real CPU and memory graphs. Control-Alt-Delete opens it, of course.

A Swift app that reads the same numbers Activity Monitor does: CPU per core, memory, network per adapter, and disk, each with its own history graph. Right-click a graph for options; double-click to make it fill the window.

It's a Lintel add-on, so it shows up in the Start menu and answers the old three-finger salute.

All sixteen tools with their option boxes, the 28-color palette, Flip and Rotate, Stretch and Skew, zoom with a grid, and Undo. It opens and saves PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF and TIFF.

It draws everything itself, without antialiasing, so lines come out as jagged as they did in 1995.

A small Node server with a web front end that works on phones and the TV. Song tags and album art get cleaned up automatically, lyrics scroll along with the song, and the radio tab plays live stations and the archive below.

The morning mix is a few lines of code: last week's favorites, a couple of forgotten ones, and something new.

A recorder saves each station in short chunks, around the clock, and deletes the oldest when the disk fills. A web page shows a timeline per station: drag back to any minute and it plays from there.

A web app with profiles, a "My List," and a resume point for every episode. Video starts playing before the file is fully on disk, and old files are cleared out once they've been watched.

Books open in the browser with an open-source reader that handles EPUB and PDF. Your page and highlights are saved on the server, so the phone picks up where the laptop stopped.

The laptop runs one full-screen browser page from a server in the closet. It pulls the calendar and the weather, shows the doorbell camera when someone rings, and gets its photos from a shared album.

A phone shortcut can send anything to the screen in one tap.

It's a self-hosted copy of an open-source alternative front end. Pages load fast, nothing tracks you, and it fits a phone screen.

One Python file serves the page. It lists every service in the house, checks each one, and shows which background jobs are running. Clicking a dot shows the last error.