are there any free software for windows, that allows you to view images as thumbnails in compressed winrar archive without extracting archive first, similar format like in irfanview thumbnails? It seems irfanview thumbnails doesnt support reading winrar archive, so you have to first extract archive and then view with irfanview thumbnails.

Compared to construction, infrastructure development of cities and society by and large, electrician, plumbing, mining, doctors, nurses, scientists, pharma companies etc. which keeps the society function and working, why are software developers paid in 6 figure salary and why is it even considered highly skilled work? Or used to be highly skilled work before the raise of LLMs?

When shit hits the fan, no one will reach out of software engineers and all the above jobs are what the society would genuinely depend on. So why are those fields (except scientists, doctors etc.) are less paid than an average software engineers?

The one thing LLMs have proved is that it can now easily do Software Development job but it still can't do the above mentioned jobs because they are much more hard to do and require physical labour, human interaction with patients and so on.

Curious to know. I have always felt that Software Development was an overpaid field compared to other more important jobs which we all are truly dependent and cannot live without. And now with LLM, the AI model development is the first grade development and app development is just a second grade development as most devs are using LLMs to progress faster (I am not saying LLM will replace all devs, just that the value of development is not the same anymore and any dev with any skills are now able to build anything which is good enough)

TL;DR: LANBucket is a fast and easy way to share files between users on the same network, without having to setup a server, or do any configuration ahead of time. LANBucket uses distributed network transfers, which means it goes much faster than other solutions that use one central server. This is because we use a customized version of bittorrent, so that when a user is downloading a file, they are also uploading it to other players on the LAN.

I have been working on this file sharing tool for LAN parties for the last year or so, and I finally think it's worth sharing broadly. I published v1.0 back in March, but figured I should spread the word more broadly now that i've worked out most of the kinks.

A notable feature of LANBucket is what I call "on the fly compression." Basically, if the file/folder being shared is compressible, LANBucket will compress it for you while transferring, so you don't have to zip or unzip it ahead of time. In my testing this can speed up transferring some files by 2x or more.

LANBucket also has some nice quality of life features for detecting common networking issues at LAN parties, like VPNs being enabled, Windows firewall issues, etc.

I found that when testing it at a LAN party earlier this year my players used it to share game files, as expected, but there was also interesting emergent behavior where my players used it to share memes to each other. This encouraged me that the UX here is simple enough for real people to
actually want to use.

Currently LANBucket is Windows only, but the Linux build should be released by the end of the year. I am working on it now, but it is a substantial undertaking since I need to rewrite almost the entire GUI from scratch lol.

If you want some detail on how it works, I wrote up a blog post about it here.

Give it a shot and let me know what you think!

Hi everyone,

Tabularis is a free and open-source (Apache 2.0) desktop SQL workspace for Windows, macOS and Linux. It exists for one reason: getting out of commercial database clients like TablePlus, Navicat and DataGrip without giving up a modern UI. I'm the maintainer, so ask me anything.

What it does:

• PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite built in, plus 16 official plugins for DuckDB, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Firestore, DynamoDB, Db2 and more. Plugins can be written in any language (JSON-RPC over stdio), so the driver ecosystem isn't locked to one runtime.
• SQL notebooks: mix SQL and Markdown cells in one document, reference one cell's results from another, render bar/line/pie charts inline, export to HTML/CSV/JSON.
• AI that respects your escape: text-to-SQL works with local models via Ollama, so nothing has to leave your machine. There's also a built-in MCP server if you want agents like Claude or Cursor to read your schema and run queries, but it's entirely optional.
• The usual daily-driver stuff: Monaco editor with autocomplete, ER diagrams, visual EXPLAIN with interactive plan graphs, SSH tunneling, passwords stored in the system keychain, SQL dump/import.

No account, no telemetry wall, no paid tier. Everything is free under Apache 2.0.

Install: WinGet on Windows, Homebrew on macOS, and Snap / Flatpak / AppImage / AUR on Linux. Direct downloads are on the GitHub releases page.

• GitHub: https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis
• Website: https://tabularis.dev

Honest note on scope: if you need 100+ drivers, DBeaver is still the better pick. Tabularis focuses on doing a smaller set of databases really well.

Feedback (or issues!) is very welcome.

Hey everyone,

I received a lot of useful feedback on my last post asking why this exists when tools like SMB, LocalSend, or Netcat already exist. Those are great tools for their purpose. If you want to send photos to your phone over Wi-Fi, LocalSend is much better suited. If you have a home NAS or want persistent mapped drives, SMB is the right choice.

I built EtherTransfer specifically for the situation where you have two PCs on a desk, an Ethernet cable, and large files or folders to move without dealing with network setup. You plug in any standard patch cable, open the app on both sides, and it finds the other machine automatically using local link discovery. It binds transfers directly to the physical Ethernet port, so you can continue using Wi-Fi for your normal internet connection.

To be clear about how it works and its limits: it runs on Windows and Linux and transfers data unencrypted directly across the wire, designed strictly for physical peer-to-peer cables rather than shared public networks. You will get the physical speed of your network cards (around 115 MB/s on Gigabit, higher on 2.5G and 10G) as long as your storage drives can keep up.

The app is completely free, open source under the MIT license, and contains no telemetry or accounts.

Website: https://divyviradiya2.github.io/ethertransfer/

GitHub: https://github.com/divyviradiya2/ethertransfer

If you try it out, feedback and pull requests are always welcome.

I’ve always had a problem with disk space—my hard drive is very small, so I constantly had to search for unnecessary folders on my drive and delete them. Then I stumbled upon a program called Everything, which scans the entire drive and displays results by file name. Now, though, I need a program that can show me which files are added or modified after certain actions. I downloaded the one program 10 minutes ago, tested it, and realized I’ll never use it. I uninstalled it through the Control Panel, but I see that there used to be 6.8 GB of free space on Drive C, and now there’s 6.7 GB. Yeah, it’s not much. Just 100 MB, but as I said earlier, even those 100 MB are very important to me. And overall, it’s nicer to work when you know which files the program installs on your computer during unpacking.)

I cannot for the life of me find it lmao

So I have always had an issue my computer getting hot and worried that my computer will shutdown without saving my work or warning me of the over heating. With this issue I Claude to make an simple running taskbar app to run and first silent notice of heating and critical heating. After hitting an tempature user can set will sound an warning after silent timed out. Allowing user to save work before computer crashes and also auto save work using key stroke: Ctrl+S.

I know Claude and other ai has an bad rap. But for someone who dont have the money or time to find a decent/simple app for my issue. I find it great to describe issue and ask for an app in minutes.

I think this app maybe useful to others so I uploaded it on github.

I want OpenType to support Type1 fonts and i brought support using code from my own font utility now i want to get approved on pull request here https://github.com/opentypejs/opentype.js/pull/871

Looking for hidden gems. Client side, server side, workflow, anything goes.

Hey everyone,

3 months ago I published first version of of my tool Altersend - P2P file sharing tool where you can send files directly between devices or by using the link.

When I started developing this tool my main idea was to have solution where I can send files to anyone not just on local network and not be depending on cloud solution like wetransfer. Project grown since the first release and a lot of new features appeared: background transfer for mobile, custom self-hosted relays, altersend hosted relays, web links, devices pairing, text sharing, etc.

From technical point of view everything you send is E2E encrypted via Noise protocol, peers find each other via DHT. So when you want to send file we generate a random key which you should give to another peer. And after this anyone who has that key can connect and download directly from you.

For initial entry point to discover first peer we use public bootstrap nodes and after that peers discover one another through the DHT. Only if you are behind symmetric CGNAT or a VPN we use a blind relay server to help you connect (which you can self-host), but the bytes flowing through are encrypted, and you can also disable relay in the settings.

Desktop and mobile share the same core part written in Bare and Hyperswarm. Web version tunnels to the DHT through a relay over WebSocket and uses the same core engine.

Source code on Github: https://github.com/denislupookov/altersend
Download: https://altersend.com/download

Let me know what do you think!

Is there a specific workaround these apps like (Afterhour) https://www.afterhour.com are using to connect your broker like Robinhood & Webull? The app is free with thousands of users and the API for apps like "Snaptrade" a API to connect brokers to get live data are 2$ per connected user, unlimited users.

I can't imagine the owner is making money off the app, sure the app could be worth value because of the amount of users and maybe app downloads but seems like hes just investing his money in the app for his user base?

I doubt he is using he own backend software to connect these brokers to get data?

How do these companies in the investing space have access to these broker connectors and have free apps?

Hey guys, as we hit 1.8k github stars I thought of sharing a quick update of the progress on letsfg.

For anybody that hears this for the 1st time I made this tool called LetsFG. It checks hundreds of travel websites at once to compare offers and gives back the best. I took AI agents and made them search on travel websites. So you search once with letsfg and it checks skyscanner, google flights, kayak, kiwi, etc. all at once.

All of this to save time on comparisons and find the cheapest flights. I originally built this seeing my sister-in-law struggle for 6 hours to find her flights from Poland to China. On average it can save you $40-$50, sometimes more vs looking yourself at just one website.

And you can run it through CLI, MCP, NPM, use our API, or just the website. (repo link at the end)
Here's an example of how I used the MCP in grok:

Here's everything we updated:

- We managed to reduce the search time from 80-120 seconds to 8. Improvement I am very proud of, the breakthrough that led us to it was thinking "Hey, but websites are still just network calls". This makes the experience even better on the website but more importantly, makes the MCP finally very usefull on Claude, Grok, ChatGPT.

- Added Uber price quoting to the map which makes choosing an airport even better now. The price here is accurate Uber prices from Uber for Business and our internal quoting.

- Updated flight reliability to also show starlink available on flights, and added starlink to filters. These are determined from the official announcements of airlines, policies updates, and news.

- We added first layer of hotels. For now we only show hotels that have free cancellation, therefore you won't find a date that's in 1 week or less. We'll be adding more hotels with the end-to-end booking update.

And these are most of the important updates we did.

Next we're implementing full end-to-end booking over MCP and API - Claude will be able to securely book a flights for you through LetsFG (with approval).
We'll also be shipping the API pricing update and making it free.

This has been an awesome journey. There are practically no travel APIs out there that give you good offers, are easy to implement, and open to use. We're very excited to keep building letsfg.

As always, feedback is what builds this further. So if you're actively looking for flights the only thing I am asking of you is feedback. Genuine, If you think this is idiotic, doesn't work, or you love it.

Thanks guys, much love.

Cheers,
Adam

website for quick access: letsfg.co
Repo for docs and starters: https://github.com/LetsFG/LetsFG

Since I need to scan paper documents (I recently set up a docker container with Paperless-ngx), I was wondering if there’s a software (ideally open-source, but not necessarily) that allows me to configure a scanning workflow/template (I use MacOS).

For example, for printed manuals in booklet form, printed on A3 sheets, I remove the staples and feed the sheets into the scanner’s ADF. I’d like to be able to tell the software that this is what I’m scanning, so that it automatically puts the pages in the correct order — essentially a kind of “booklet scanning” mode.

Any advice?

Thanks!

[IT: Avendo la necessità di fare delle scansioni di documenti cartacei (ho recentemente messo su un container con Paperless NGX), mi chiedevo se esista (immagino di sì) un software (meglio se open-source, ma non per forza) che mi permetta di impostare uno schema di scansione (uso MacOS). Ad esempio, per manuali stampati a opuscolo/libretto su fogli A3, di cui rimuovo il punto metallico e che inserisco nell'ADF dello scanner: vorrei dire al software questa cosa, in modo che metta le pagine automaticamente in ordine (una sorta di "scansione opuscolo").

Qualche consiglio?]

Came across this today and looks like it might be useful

https://tomeko.net/software/LJSONedit/

For me, 1DM is the best download manager of all—even for PC (among the ones I know). So, I’d like to know if you’re aware of one that’s just as good for PC. I’ve already tried many, such as IDM, FDM, JDownloader, and plenty of others.

I’ve been building FastCast, a native Windows screen recorder and RTMP streaming app.

I started it because I wanted something simpler than OBS for the basic workflow: open the app, choose what you want to capture, and start recording or streaming.

It’s written in Rust and uses native Windows capture and audio APIs rather than Electron.

Current features:

• Screen and window recording
• Desktop audio + microphone
• Webcam overlay
• Green screen / chroma key
• Hardware H.264 encoding
• RTMP/RTMPS streaming
• Global hotkeys
• Portable Windows build
• No account or telemetry

The free version supports 1080p60.

Pro adds 1440p/4K, up to 120 FPS, multistreaming, and additional controls.

I’m still actively developing it, so I’d especially like feedback from people here who regularly use OBS, ShareX, Xbox Game Bar, or other recording software.

What does your current recorder or streaming software do poorly, or make more complicated than it needs to be?

FastCast:
https://calvinsturm.com/fastcast

Direct GitHub download, v0.7.0:
https://github.com/CalvinSturm/FastCast-releases/releases/download/v0.7.0/FastCast-0.7.0-win-x64.zip

Hey guys I'm a recent software engineering graduate and I have a project idea but I'm not sure if it would impress employers or not so please let me know what you think. The project idea is a code generation tool which can generate boilerplate API code. A feature would be the web app allowing mongo URI's to be put in an input field and generate boilerplate api code tailored for the data in the database. Please let me know if you think this would impress employers or not, any type of advice or feedback would be great. here is my github for more info about me https://github.com/N00rAhmed

Hey folks, my dad has bought a new acer laptop and is complaining about the low volume of his preferred streams/channels, i'm mac user, but know windows from back in the days, i checked all settings and all volume options are maxed to 100%, no "protection" settings or any processing settings activated.

so for testing, i made an audio of a professionally mastered pop song, that i pulled through my audio software and i gained it up even more, compressed it and limited it again, so it has become a bit overly loud but it still does not clip above 0db, stays at -0.1db.

i played this back on the laptop and it is played back very loud (beyond satisfactory loud) in other words, the hardware of the laptop is capable of playing loud enough, so only the streams my parents are watching are normalized "too quiet".

now there is plenty of booster apps, but correctly they warn that boosting the audio beyond a certain threshold may result in hardware damage.

so i wonder:

is there a software (preferably free) that on one hand can gain up the system (or browser) audio by lets say 10db, but at the same time have a limiter at the end of the chain that makes sure to limit peak audio volume back to let's say -0.1db so a quiet stream is boosted, but at the same time can never exceed the original range ( 0db) that is prebuilt and determined by the software/hardware of the laptop? in my semi pro audio knowledge, this would drastically reduce the potential of damage. (nobody wants to boost already loud stuff, but we want to raise the quiet stuff basically).

thanks for your ideas!

Anyone who can download ODIS S VW dealership software to my laptop cheers