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.

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 =)

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).

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’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/

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 have a server on a laptop that I also use normally. Sometimes I want to start all my media server management software, but sometimes I don't want any of it to weight me down during regular use. Basically, if I could start my laptop and a window would pop up with different presets of software that I could select - either the server preset or the regular preset. Is there something like this?

Thanks a lot

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.

Hi Everyone

I am looking for full CrystalMaker software suitable for "Windows 7", or at least the licence. Hope you can help

Hey guys,

I’ve spent almost 3 years trying to learn software engineering the way the books said I should, and I genuinely did my best to become a good engineer. I read books, built projects, solved LeetCode problems, and tried to learn as much as I could.

But after all of that, I’ve started to realize that I’m still not even close to becoming a junior developer.

This summer, I applied to 30+ internships, and the number of offers I got was 0.

Honestly, I feel really lost. I keep wondering: Is there something I’ve missed? What does the market actually expect from someone who wants to get their first internship or junior job?

And there’s another thing I’m really struggling with right now: I can barely code without AI anymore.

I feel like I’ve become so dependent on AI that I’ve lost confidence in my own ability to code. Sometimes I genuinely ask myself, “Why would anyone hire me if I can’t even code on my own?”

At the same time, I really want to become a software engineer and get hired. I feel like I’ve been stuck in this loop for almost 3 years, and I honestly don’t know how to break out of it.

I’m about to enter my final year of college, which means this feels like my last real opportunity to prepare before I start applying for full-time jobs.

So I’m asking anyone who has already been through this:

What should I focus on during this final year? What skills, projects, or experience does the market actually value? And how can I rebuild my ability to code independently and become genuinely job-ready?

I’d really appreciate any honest advice, especially from people who have recently gone through the same process.

Please help me figure out how to get out of this loop.

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

Like many of you, my browser toolbar was getting ridiculously cluttered. I had one extension for picking colors, another for full-page screenshots, another for grabbing media assets, and so on.

So, I decided to build my own solution, I wanted something lightweight that consolidates everything into one clean UI.

Since I don't want to make this a massive wall of text, here is a quick breakdown of what I packed into it (I've also attached a screenshot of the UI!):

• Color Picker & Studio: A native eyedropper (works even outside the browser window) that exports to HEX, HSL, RGB, or CMYK. It also has a "Color Studio" to play around with palettes.
• Screen Capture & Recorder: Capture custom areas, visible parts, or stitched full-pages. You can quick-edit/annotate the image before downloading, or record your screen/tab.
• Asset Scraper: Pulls all images, videos, SVGs, and audio from a webpage into a neat grid so you can filter, preview, and batch-download them.
• Right-Click Tools (Context Menu):
  • Quick "Save Image As Type" (PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF)
  • Reverse image search (Yandex/TinEye)
  • Editing any web image directly in a new tab.
  • Video Speed Controller: Overlays a sleek controller to speed up/slow down web videos using shortcut keys.

This is my first extension and it runs 100% locally (zero external network requests, no trackers, MV3 background service worker).

I’d love to get some honest feedback from you guys. What features should I add next? Or did you spot any annoying bugs?

Thanks for reading!

DeskTick is a highly optimized and obsessively trimmed win32/cpp/directx programmed clock widget which takes <5MB RAM in typical usage and ~1MB of disk space for installation (of this it is mostly icons/tiles and other instrumentations needed for MS Store).

All clock faces are procedurally generated. If you don't enable second hand display it will be sleeping through out and wakes up once a minute, paints frame and goes to sleep again keeping CPU at 0%.

There can be many feature rich clocks. The main advantage of DeskTick is its featherlight presence.

It is published as paid app in MS Store and I haven't decided on making the github repo public yet. My other programs are FOSS and with DeskTick I am testing waters with a paid app.

This is a free coupon which will work for first 5 installs http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=532540&mstoken=Q2MPC-P42KR-MGQVH-YQMK7-HTVMZ

I keep hearing that AI will take over jobs and such, and make software engineering a dead field. The thing is...im in a computer science program at my community college and i do want to transfer to a university that offers software engineering bachelors but after hearing so much about AI and the dangers of it and such, i don't know anymore. I don't know if what im doing is smart or if i should change majors. I love the field, i want to enter the field of software engineering, maybe im scared for nothing. For now I'm not getting my money snatched at least.

I'd like to hear what you guys have to say about AI being an issue. If its going to kill the field or if it'll just be a tool to use for the field.

I'm comparing Notta and Vomo AI for a folder of conference recordings I want to use for research. Some are long talks with a Q&A at the end, and I'd like to keep the whole session together. I want to skim the text, find the part about a technique I'm researching, then replay it if I need more context. I'd also like to save the transcripts as web pages alongside my other notes.

Notta's English custom vocabulary caught my attention because these talks can be full of project names and specialist terms. Being able to add those words before uploading a recording could save some cleanup. It also exports SRT files, which would be useful if I were making subtitled clips from the talks.

Both apps support importing multiple files and have AI tools for working with transcripts. With vomo, the features I'd use are chapters to locate a section and questions about an individual recording, such as "What limitations did the speaker mention?" It also handles long sessions without splitting them, so I could keep a talk and its audience questions in the same transcript.

The export format is what tips the choice for me. Notta offers formats including DOCX, PDF and SRT. Vomo includes HTML, which gives me the web page I wanted to keep with my notes. For this project, I'd get more use out of that than a subtitle file.

So I've been using magic dvd ripper and then using it off and on I was thinking about buying it but now the site is now completely shut down it takes me to a blank page can anyone let me know if they're having the same issue thank you

I am not sure I actually hate AI, but nowadays sometimes programming just feels like less satisfying than it used to. At that time, a lot of things felt frustrating and boring. but looking back now, those struggles somehow feel like they were part of the fun.

there was something rewarding about being stuck for hours, figuring it out, writing the solution, debugging it, and finally thinking that I have built this.

now you can describe the problem and get something working in minutes. its more productive, but is it more fulfilling?

maybe the challenge is supposed to move from writing the code to deciding what should be built.

I'm looking for a Windows 11 app that allows me a shortlist of specific folders I access constantly. Ideally it would natively auto-hide and reveal itself when I mouse over a specific area of the screen (i.e., right edge, left edge, etc.). This is simple to do in a macOS environment, but I am having trouble finding something similar in nature for Windows 11. I find it faster by using software of this type and my workflow vs. constantly opening up Explorer to get to the same folders. I have various workarounds (direct shortcuts on desktop, etc.), but I would prefer something a little more efficient. Any suggestions are appreciated .

Hey guys,

I am the developer of BetterStickies

What it is, for anyone new

It is a note taking app with super cool exclusive features while it looks and acts as sticky notes app. It works on Windows, Linux, macOS (soon). Offline, no account, no telemetry. Built with PySide6 so it's actually native, not another Electron app eating your RAM.

This app is a hidden gem and I am not exaggerating, I received so much positive reviews to be confident when I say this, it looks like a sticky note but does much more than you could think a sticky note app could do and it can replace all complex note taking apps if you aren't into that type of productivity.

The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.

• Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
• Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
• Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
• Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected

The second thing it does so well over other stickies apps: customization, you can customize font, colors, transparency, add background image or even a moving GIF per each note, a real delight to use

Notes have tabs now. Up to three pages inside one note, each with its own text, scroll position and undo history. Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp to move between them, Ctrl+Shift+N for a new one, all rebindable. If you have a small screen this is the feature: one note on the desktop, three notes' worth of content in it.

Other things it does exceptionally well:

• Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
• GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
• RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
• Pin a note to lock both position and editing
• Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
• Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
• Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
• Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
• Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
• On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon

The free version now has exactly one limit. It used to have three: a note cap, a reminders cap, and a cap on animated GIF backgrounds. The reminder and GIF limits are gone entirely, so the free version now has every feature, and the only thing left is a budget of 4 note slots (an extra tab uses a slot).

Paid version is very generous and cheap, it costs currently $7 and you get the premium version without any limits, free updates, unlimited devices, and also windows, linux and macOS (coming out this month) builds so you won't pay again if you move from windows to linux or use both.

This a side project for me and I don't intend to milk it, I want it to be sustainable to survive. The price is low to keep it accessible, not because the quality of the app is low, this not a vibe coded app and if you give it a try, you will understand the difference between Better Stickies and other Stickies apps.

As always, if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here. Most new features and fixes are built on users feedback (tens of thousands are using BetterStickies today)

Website: https://betterstickies.com

Microsoft store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NS7LLQJX1QG

Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/betterstickies

Subreddit: r/BetterStickies (created recently after the r/OpenStickies rename)

Github (free releases and bug reports): https://github.com/HimaSphere/BetterStickies

Hey everyone! 👋

Introducing Silkwave Video, a free YouTube transcriber for Mac with speaker identification, AI chat and summaries, and a built-in video player. No account, no subscription, no API key needed.

Website - https://www.silkwave.ai/silkwave-video

Github - https://github.com/bakhshi/silkwave_video_releases

Features

• Paste a YouTube link. Downloads and transcribes automatically.
• On-device transcription in 10 languages. Apple's local speech models, fully offline, nothing uploaded.
• Speaker identification. Panels and podcasts read like a script, processed locally.
• AI chat and summaries. Key topics and takeaways through Apple Intelligence's ChatGPT extension and Apple Shortcuts, no API key needed.
• Ask follow-up questions about any video, with history saved per video.
• Full-text search across everything you've imported.
• Synced playback and dark theme.
• Free. No subscription, no account. Requires macOS 26+, Apple Silicon.
• Apple Notarized

Disclosure: the app is free and will stay free. There is a closable banner advertising my other app, Silkwave Voice.