Open-source Mac anti-theft alarm: arm and lock your Mac — if someone tampers with it, it screams, snaps photos, and alerts your iPhone.
Crookcooked is an open-source anti-theft alarm for macOS. Arm it and the Mac locks; if someone messes with it, it screams, records them, and sends the clip plus a live view to your iPhone — encrypted, over the local network. Your iPhone browser becomes the remote control: arm, disarm, live view, and snapshots. Requires macOS 14+, installable from GitHub Releases.
Open source, mostly vibe codedThe author launched it on Show HN in October 2026 with the note "Open source, mostly vibe coded" — and the README closes with the same line: "Mostly vibe coded. Use at your own risk." It's built natively in Swift 6+, MIT licensed, with a downloadable .app in Releases.
Built from a real annoyanceThe author works from cafés and libraries and hated leaving a MacBook alone for bathroom breaks — so they built the fix. A small, honest, single-purpose utility: exactly the kind of project vibe coding is good at.