Personal computers used to talk to you. A red LED flickered when the hard drive was working. A green light glowed when your modem connected. Tiny VU meters jumped to the rhythm of your music. The machine was alive on its surface, and you knew, at a glance, what it was doing.

Then came laptops, sealed enclosures, unified memory, silent SSDs. The lights went away. The machines became opaque. You can still see what your computer is doing, but only by stopping what you're doing, opening Activity Monitor, and looking.

Blinken brings the LED back. As software, in your menu bar, exactly where it was on a beige tower in 1998. Ambient. Quiet. There when you need it, invisible when you don't.