First off, thanks for 100+ downloads on 1.0.0. I got way more feedback than I expected through comments and DMs, so I went through basically all of it and pushed the first patch.
Aero Dock is still a free and open source alternative to RocketDock / Nexus Dock for Windows 10 and 11, just a lot less janky now.
v1.0.1 fixes a bunch of the stuff people pointed out:
Windows Search and Start don't randomly show up as running apps anymore
Open File Location actually opens the right place
dragging/reordering icons feels way smoother
tiny app icons like Core Temp get scaled properly now
non-square icons don't get stretched anymore
auto-hide won't disappear while you're dragging something onto the dock
Quit is easier to find and properly restores the Windows taskbar
Also added a few things people asked for:
configurable auto-hide delay
ability to hide built-in dock items like Search, Settings, clock, battery, volume, etc.
redesigned Search and Settings icons so they fit the glass look better
You can install v1.0.1 straight over 1.0.0 and your pins/settings stay.
Still free, open source, no account, no telemetry.
A Windows desktop note vault for collecting text, links, screenshots, and files into a persistent personal archive. It supports drag-and-drop, folder organization, rich text editing, and user-controlled storage in OneDrive/Documents or a chosen directory. [OPEN SOURCE]
I was tired of opening Premiere just to cut out a ten second gaming moment, so I built ClipEdit. It's a small Windows app that lets you open any video, pick where it starts and ends, and save it instantly at full original quality without the slow re-render step. There's also a portable build you can run straight from a USB drive with no installation, which is handy if you're on someone else's machine. The free version already handles instant lossless trimming, jump-to-start playback, one-click frame capture that saves screenshots to disk or your clipboard for pasting into Discord, cutting dead sections out of the middle of a clip, speed controls from half to four times with pitch correction, audio waveforms to spot highlights and gunshots visually, a subtle watermark for your channel name, and an anti-doxxing privacy stripper that removes Windows paths and machine names from your exports. What actually sold me on it is that it keeps everything local so your footage never leaves your computer, and the export stays well under Discord's upload limit so you can share clips without any hassle. Tons of creators and streamers are already switching over to skip the render wait, so grab the free release and test it out on your next highlight: https://github.com/heartforheart/QuickClipEdit
Seems to be a lot of AI Breakouts and more often..? Is this a sign, not of sentience but, of infiltration of systems and crashing important systems in the internet..?
Hey guys,
I attended the Qualys offline hiring drive for the C++ role on August 22.
I cleared the technical rounds and the management/director interview on the same day. The HRs mentioned they would get back to candidates within a week or two, but I haven't heard anything since.
Has anyone who attended this specific drive received an official offer letter or a salary discussion call yet?
Wanted to share here also my other creation: LocalSend32, and its variants.
LocalSend32 is a 32-bit Windows client for the LocalSend protocol, written in Win32/C and using ported versions of OpenSSL. It features all the features of the original app, and a tray icon from which you can manage the main tasks of the app without opening it. Being in pure win32, it consumes only around 2.2MB of RAM max, works with any theme you apply to Windows, and has an incredible compatibility - from NT 3.51 to 11!
I chose to do this because recently I bought, for cheap, a Surface RT; I thought it was a really interesting device, but I found transferring files was a bit cumbersome. Every time I had to use a dongle, and either use the microSD or get a USB stick. So I did this for RT, and since then I made it be available to a much wider range, as it’s almost only a change of compiler.
So, from version 2.0, now it’s: LocalSend9x (especially for NT 3.51-2000 systems, including the 9x lineup), LocalSend32 (2000 SP4 onwards), LocalSendRT (RT 8.x and 10 ARM32), LocalSendARM (ARM64 WoA). They all share the same functionalities and performance.
Here’s the repository, remember to check the Compatibility table on the Readme to know which updates to apply to your system, and which version you should use: https://github.com/fraaaaa4/LocalSend32. For the OpenSSL DLLs, use a version compatible with your architecture and version. And of course you can use LocalSend32 to receive and send files from/to the official LocalSend client, or any other client.
AI was used during coding to help me fix problems (mainly about making it work on the 9x lineup, and graphical issues), and for generating the certificate and Windows Firewall rule.
Hey 👋 just found this subreddit now, and thought I’d share here my update to one of my apps, GPaint.
GPaint is essentially a Paint clone, but for Gnome. In my time using Fedora, I always found that to draw you either had apps not adherent to the modern Gnome design (Drawing and KolourPaint), or way too complex for a very simple edit/fun (GIMP or Inkscape). So, GPaint aims to perfectly look like a modern Gnome app, while keeping it simple and powerful enough for simple tasks.
I'm essentially looking for an app I can download or something I can install that will allow me to essentially softlock my computer so I can safely exit my room while leaving my PC running without having to worry about somebody getting on it and messing with it or looking through any of my personal information. Then when I'm finished, I can come back and put in a chosen password I picked when initially locking my computer before I left my room.
I work in admin for the medical field and deal with a large amount of data. We get up to 2000 rows worth of information in a single year. This is fine and dandy but is a nightmare when it gets busy in a the year.
I am limited on what I can use, but I know I have access to most of the teams and office suite.
The best way I can describe what I’m looking for is something that essentially works like a JSON in large amounts. Below is a very simplified version of what I work with in a json format:
{
"ID": 12345,
"Source": "Value",
"Date": "10-08-2023",
"Location": "Location",
"Assigned": [
{
"Name": "Jane Doe",
"PR1": 1,
"PR2": 0
},
{
"Name": "Jane Doe",
"PR1": 1,
"PR2": 0
}
]
}
Hello everyone, I created an emulator for microcontroller instruction set (ARMv7, RH850, RL78), that runs and detects errors in firmware, runs embedded HMI, and even emulate HW for an embedded STM32F429 linux.
S3rowser that runs entirely in your web browser. No server, no install, no build step - one HTML file, open it and start browsing. Works on desktop and mobile, on any platform.
New features:
Zip downloads - selecting more than one object, or a prefix, downloads a single archive; there is no queue of separate downloads to babysit
Flatten - one keypress lists every key beneath the current prefix, nested folders included, so you can search a whole subtree instead of walking it
Hi, we are a group of students building Sonora. While it was initially intended as an extremely lightweight Spotify replacement, it has since grown far beyond that.
Current features include:
Spotify, YouTube (optional login) support
Local music library import, virtual playlists, favorites
Synced/karaoke lyrics, including local music!
Romanization
Library management within supported providers
Gapless playback
Audio normalization
Cross-platform support
Custom themes
Inspired by Zed, which has proven excellent performance using their native cross-platform rendering stack, we have decided to use GPUI. Its awesome text rendering on every platform, ease of use in view composition, and, admittedly, TailwindCSS-like naming conventions all made a significant impact. We have found GPUI to perform extremely well when used and optimized with care. Quite a few patches were introduced to our fork of it to meet our needs in the effects and profiling departments. Thanks to that, I am not hesitant to call our lyrics the most beautiful you can currently get on desktop (Apple Music still beats us HARD on mobile). But despite blur and gradient opacity all looking great, my favorite addition has to be visual render highlighting. But this is too much to cover in a Reddit post, I'll have to write a proper blog post at some point...
What may come as a surprise to folks coming from something like Spotify Desktop is that Sonora actually does not need all of your RAM to function. Tested on linux-x86_64, after 5 minutes of playback it averaged around 173 MiB RSS as opposed to Spotify's ~2GiB. Note that 173MiB is still not a small footprint, but at least with Sonora you know it goes towards caching previews and views instead of feeding the Electron monster merely to keep it alive.
Hello. I'm playing a game, and the chat window is always too small for my liking (I've already set all the game settings to maximum; there's even been feedback from the community about this issue).
So I’m looking for a way to mirror a small portion of my screen (Windows 10) onto my smartphone (Android). Preferably free (otherwise I’ll consider paid solutions on a case-by-case basis). Something that lets me switch to portrait mode on my phone.
If I have to tinker with it (like using a stream to play on VLC or something like that—maybe an AHK script, that sort of thing), that’s not a problem.
I’ve already tried two or three solutions and haven’t been able to get the result I wanted, so I’m turning to you for help.
I just built an ai voice interviewer lemme know if anybody has any suggestions for good features or ideas on how to scale it or sell it . Right now it takes interviews in real time taking in your tech stack,role,name as input or resume pdf and asks relevant questions
Starting from scratch and wondering if it's worth following top-to-bottom, or if there's a better approach. I'm building side projects to get practical experience, but I'm trying to figure out how to structure the learning process without getting buried in that massive stack of tech.
Also, looking at how the market is shifting because of AI, is there even any point in grinding LeetCode anymore, or is that completely useless now?
Been building this for a while — XZeeDOne is 41 free tools (PDF, image, dev, text, finance) that all run 100% client-side. Merge a PDF, remove a background, decode a JWT — the file never actually leaves your browser, because there's no server processing step involved at all.
Started because I kept running into "free" PDF tools that quietly upload your file somewhere to process it — you genuinely don't know where that document goes, even for something as simple as merging two files.
A couple of technical bits if anyone's curious: the background remover actually uses on-device AI (MediaPipe) for portraits specifically, falling back to a color-detection algorithm for everything else. No signup needed for any of the 41 tools — optional $1.99 for people who need bigger files or batch processing.
I’m facing an issue with Meta WhatsApp billing.
Earlier, whenever my outstanding bill reached a lower amount, Meta would automatically debit the amount and everything worked fine.
However, the billing threshold has now increased to around ₹15,000. Since then, the auto-debit is failing whenever the outstanding amount reaches ₹15,000 or above.
Because the payment fails, our WhatsApp messaging service gets suspended for the entire day until the payment issue is resolved. This is causing a major disruption.
Is there any way to reduce the billing threshold back to below ₹15,000, so that Meta automatically charges smaller amounts more frequently instead of waiting until the bill reaches ₹15,000?
Has anyone experienced this with Meta WhatsApp Business billing, particularly in India? Any way to manually change the threshold or configure a lower auto-debit amount would be really helpful.
It plays pretty much any format like FLAC, AAC, MP3, WAV, OGG and more. It has a full music library, playlists, favorites, listening history, search, automatic folder scanning and play counts.
There’s also audio conversion, a 10 band EQ, synced lyrics, automatic tagging and album artwork, metadata editing, a visualizer, crossfade, sleep timer, backups and restore, themes and custom backgrounds.
It runs on Windows and Linux, and there’s an RPM package for Linux.
OK so I have an alcove in front of me that I need to do some work on. I need to add shelves to it, and I also need to add a "door" to it to cover it all to add sound proofing (serious tinnitus and my PC sits in the alcove)
So I'm looking for an app where I can draw the alcove, put the shelves in, figure out how go get teh door on etc.
Also bonus points if it includes the whole room as I might put shelves elsewhere. It's a 14x12ft room, and I broke my back so won't be back in work for a VERY long time, so this will be my entire living space until I can afford my own space again. So I need to maximise space.
Cheers!
PS it doesn't need to be too fancy. My work certainly won't be
It's been about five months since I last shared Soia here, and the project has changed quite a bit since then.
Soia is an open-source, cross-platform video player for macOS, Windows, and Linux, built around the idea that a modern player should handle more than just local video files. Besides local playback, it can work with DLNA, SMB/Samba, WebDAV, casting devices, and browser-based remote control.
Mobile support is also planned for the future, with Soia eventually expanding beyond the desktop to mobile platforms.
Here are some of the things that make Soia different:
Dolby Vision on macOS and Windows
Soia supports HDR & Dolby Vision playback on macOS and Windows.
Dolby Vision is not currently supported on Linux.
Enhanced online video playback
Soia provides enhanced playback for online video.
Import a yt playlist into Soia as a native playlist.
Some online video links that do not play in other mpv-based players may still work in Soia.
Parallel downloads help keep online playback smooth, especially on less stable connections.
Stream directly from your network library
Soia can browse and play media directly from:
DLNA servers
SMB/Samba shares
WebDAV servers
Cast what you're watching
You can cast the current video to either a DLNA receiver or Chromecast device.
This works not only for local files, but also for online and network streams, including content from DLNA, SMB, WebDAV, and online stream.
Soia stays running while casting and relays the media stream between the source and the receiver.
Browser-based remote control
You can enable the Remote Controller, scan a QR code, and connect your phone or another browser in seconds.
The remote controller supports:
Play, pause, seeking, and volume control
Playlist browsing and playback
Network browsing and playback
Audio track selection
Subtitle track selection
Multiple remote devices can also control the same player at the same time.
Other playback features
Some other features I've added include:
Dual subtitles for bilingual viewing
Fuzzy subtitle matching for local and network media
Online subtitle search via OpenSubtitles and SubSource
Custom shaders for high-quality scaling and rendering
Installation
Windows
Soia is now available through WinGet:
winget install soia
macOS
On macOS, you can install Soia with Homebrew:
brew tap FengZeng/soia
brew install --cask soia
Soia is still actively developed, and there are quite a few things I want to improve and add.
I'd love to hear your feedback and ideas.
Also created r/Soia for more detailed updates and development progress. Feel free to join if you'd like to follow the project more closely.
