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Yameru

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Illustration of a cat wearing a beret with a small bell on top

Yameru (止める — Japanese for to stop) is a small macOS app that guards your laptop when you can’t: at hackathons, conferences, cafés — anywhere you’d hesitate to leave it alone with strangers. Another Sun Labs build together with Victor, written in Swift.

Lock the device and it watches for the things a thief or a prankster with a Rubber Ducky would do:

  • Hotplug attacks — sound the alarm if a USB device is plugged in or inputs are altered while locked.
  • Theft — pull the power cord and the alarm goes off; the machine is kept from sleeping so it can’t be silenced with a lid.
  • Pushover notifications — get pinged on your phone when something trips, even if you’re across the room.
  • Unlock with a pin code, and only the pin code.
UI of Yameru: a Lock Device button UI of Yameru: pin code field and Unlock Device button

Started as a hackathon-season itch, shipped properly as v1.0.0 years later — side projects run on their own clock. Open source under MIT on GitHub.