A Housekeeping App for Mom and Dad

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:00:00 -0700

My parents run a small hospitality business at dovregubben.com. Cabins, rooms, guests coming and going — and someone always had to manually figure out which rooms needed cleaning, set up the lists, and make sure nothing fell through the cracks. It wasn't about paper schedules. It was about having control over everything.

Then my mom had hip surgery. Every minute she spent wrangling room lists and tracking cleaning status was a minute she couldn’t afford. I wanted to build them something that would save time, stress, and mental overhead — completely free of charge, because that’s what family is for.

TJvox: macOS-Style Dictation for Linux

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:00:00 -0700

I type a lot. Emails, code, chat messages, angry comments on the internet. My wrists were starting to file complaints. macOS has this delightful built-in dictation feature where you double-tap a key, speak, and it types for you. Linux... did not. At least not in a way that didn't involve shouting at a browser tab or paying some cloud API by the syllable. So I built my own.

What It Does

TJvox is a local, offline voice dictation app for Linux (Wayland-first, because that’s what I run). Hit a hotkey, speak, and it transcribes your rambling into text using OpenAI’s Whisper — running entirely on your own machine. No data leaves the house.

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A Housekeeping App for Mom and Dad

TJvox: macOS-Style Dictation for Linux

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What It Does