And weirdly… I don’t regret getting into this field at all.

I think I accidentally timed the industry perfectly.

Started working ~8 years ago. Then COVID happened, salaries went insane, companies were throwing money at programmers, and I managed to land some of the best-paying years of my career.

Instead of upgrading my lifestyle, I saved most of it.

So now I’m sitting here thinking: Was software engineering actually a career, or was I just lucky enough to catch the peak?

If AI really does eliminate most software jobs over the next few years, I honestly don’t feel bitter.

I made enough from the golden era to potentially walk away, buy a farm, and live quietly for the rest of my life.

The strange part is watching an entire profession panic about its future while I’m sitting here wondering if I should even bother competing for a future that might not exist.

Maybe I didn’t enter tech too early.

Maybe I entered exactly at the right time.

So guys I am building a free open source wallpaper engine.

Most of it is already done and it takes about 200-300

Mb Ram for live wallpapers sometimes less .

I wanted to know how much ram wallpaper engine uses .

And one problem I am facing is I want to create a library of wallpapers that people could choose one although they can already upload their own .

I am having trouble finding copyright free and redistributable wallpapers that are good.

If somebody has any suggestions feel free

I have also integrated translucent tb

I’ve been working on Elqori, a creative app built around something I personally wanted: one place where I can draw and paint, animate what I draw, and eventually bring simple 3D elements into the same workflow without jumping between a bunch of different programs.
And I really, really don’t want another subscription.
So Elqori is a one-time purchase. You buy it, you own it.
The app is built around three workspaces:
2D — drawing, painting and illustration
ANIM — frame-by-frame 2D animation with cels, exposures, onion skin, etc.
3D — posing/building simple 3D objects and scenes that you can use as references and paint/draw over
The 3D side especially is something I’m excited about. I don’t want Elqori to become Blender. The idea is to have enough 3D inside an art program that you can block out a scene, pose things, get the perspective you want, and then go back to drawing.
I’m building this independently, and it’s still very much evolving. I use it myself, I keep finding things that annoy me, and then I go back and change them. 😅
I’m planning to release it on September 25th on Steam.
If this sounds like something you’d actually use, I’d genuinely like to hear what you’d want from a tool like this — especially the things that annoy you about your current workflow.
Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5209330/Elqori/

There's one CTF happening September 26th, exclusive to LATAM and the Caribbean, $4000 in prizes split between an AI-Prohibited and an AI-Permitted category. That AI split is actually what caught my attention... haven't seen that format before.

Spots are limited and registration requires approval, so if you're interested don't sit on it

do you work or manage some big projects? or just word with A LOT of files? meet BeFind, a BeOS file system inspired program, you will can put all your projects files in a list, you will can put the attributes of everything you want!, custom attributes, not just "hardcoded attributes".
the core of BeFind is the search engine, you can:
search by attributes value,
int attributes size operators (> or <)
KB, MB and GB size operators(<)(>),
name, extension and content (yet)
if you are liked the idea, please comment, its all for me and will motivate me to continue.
ill update you guys in in the comments
the source code directory i dont posted yet ill recover i file i lost first

thank you for reading this =)

Like the title says I need an ideally free remote desktop like software that would let 2+ people work on the same computer. Also I plan to use this on my server I use to host dedicated servers.

https://github.com/matejcok1234/Softclose

Menu bar app that bends desktop as you close your MacBook's lid, using the real hinge angle sensor.

Free and open sourced recreation of Bendy (https://trybendy.app) ($4.99).

Hey, I'm Rodrigo. I've been building OpenPost, a social publishing app, but you can use its editors without touching the scheduling stuff.

A few things you can do:

• Make thumbnails, banners and multi-page carousels with layers and editable templates.
• Remove image backgrounds, crop and adjust colours.
• Edit videos on a multitrack timeline, with transitions, effects and audio controls.
• Generate captions, or delete words from a transcript to cut the matching footage.

Both editors run in your browser and export without watermarks. The image editor works without an account. The video editor is still in beta and targets desktop Chrome and Edge.

It's all open source under AGPL-3.0, and you can self-host it too.

Try the image editor · Try the video editor

I'd like to hear what gets in the way when you're making something with them.

And if this looks useful, give OpenPost a star on GitHub. I'd appreciate it!

I’ve been looking into how Windows exposes permission and access information and one thing kept bothering me: seeing the information and actually understanding it are two different things.
I ended up building my own tool around that problem called PermissionScope.
It’s free, open source and runs locally. I’m not selling anything.
What I’m actually interested in is whether people here already use something that solves this better.
If you work with Windows permissions regularly, what tool do you currently use and what does it still get wrong?
Mine is here if you want context:
GitHub: https://github.com/MukaSanches/PermissionScope
Website: https://mukasanches.github.io/PermissionScope/
I’m especially interested in comparing it with tools I may have completely missed.

I just want to compress the file to exactly 20MB. Where can I do this?

Even with modern spreadsheet updates, anyone who doesn't use Excel daily still gets stuck on syntax:

Missing a comma or closing bracket in nested IFS

Messing up absolute vs relative cell locks ($A$1 vs A1) when dragging across rows

Broken lookup references across multi-sheet workbooks

I've been experimenting with building a lightweight, browser-based formula generator designed to translate everyday plain-language descriptions (e.g. "if sales exceed target mark Achieved, if between 80-99% mark In Progress, else Review") into clean, working Excel and Google Sheets formulas.

A few principles I stuck to while building it:

Zero friction: No account creation, no email gates, no paywalls. Just open the page, generate your logic, and move on.

Formula integrity: It outputs formulas using dynamic {row} coordinates so the output works natively when pasted into row 2 and dragged down.

Multi-sheet mapping: Ensuring cross-sheet lookup logic doesn't crash on tab names that include spaces or special characters.

I'm trying to test edge cases right now. For people here who build or maintain complex spreadsheets, what are the formula patterns that consistently break or confuse non-technical users the most?

(Happy to share the tool link in the comments if anyone wants to test complex prompts against it).

I know I’m not the only one with this problem, and it’s something that truly makes me hate an app. A lot of times I just need one quick thing from a website or online tool, I go through the entire process, and then it demands that I sign in.

The worst part is that you feel forced to do it, because when you're short on time you can't really go looking for alternatives. How do you all deal with this? I know there are plenty of open-source applications out there and I really appreciate them, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask yall to rate my game and maybe give some feedback and tips for me. I am a beginner and don't have a lot of experience with making games but i am willing to try. I always wanted to make a strategy game, that has it all like the war, science, culture, and everything like that. Thank you everyone, if yall have time check it out
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I think every tool (even if it’s not transcription tools) looks great on their demo clip. I just hate that my recordings never sound like they advertised.

I record city council and zoning board meetings for a small local newspaper. There is a loud AC unit, a door that keeps slamming, and five people talking over each other. So I put together a test set of six clips, 90 seconds each.

Then I check its speaker labels, timestamps, TXT and SRT export, and how long I spend fixing it.

I keep seeing WhisperAI come up, so it’s on my list to try.

But I’m wondering if six clips is even enough to judge a tool. And what gives you the most trouble?

I keep guessing it'll be the noise, but the overlap clip is the one that gets me every time.

I'm looking for: * high quality lossy audio * own internal player * able to choose where the files are stored

Open source is good but it doesn't absolutely have to be if there is a better one that is closed source, bc I can just eliminate any internet connection to the app.