Boot laboratory no. 07 · Saturday shift
Startup Symphony
Your tiny utilities are all brilliant. Your computer would still like to reach the desktop this century. Assemble a lean startup orchestra, then conduct the boot and see which helpers elbow one another in the doorway.
CHOOSE 3–5 MODULES
MissionEveryday Carry
Boot allowance9.0 seconds
Prime directiveUseful, quiet, quick
01 · Patch your startup rack
Boot sequence
T + 0.0 seconds–
Awaiting startup
The machine has made no alarming noises. Yet.
Small tools,
civilized machine.
Jon’s original startup tray was a wonderfully specific portrait of how he worked: clipboard search, automatic notes, plain-text pasting, window finding, keyboard automation, screen capture, and tiny system meters. This bench keeps that spirit but asks the awkward modern question: which helpers earn the right to wake up every single time?
Inspired by Jon’s “Useful utilities from my startup programs” →