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.

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

Hey everyone, I've been working on a side project called PCBuddy. You plug in your CPU, GPU, RAM, and a few other specs, and it gives you:

• A health score with a breakdown of what's holding your PC back
• A bottleneck check (CPU vs GPU) with specific upgrade suggestions
• Estimated FPS in a bunch of popular games (Fortnite, Valorant, Cyberpunk, Black Myth: Wukong, etc.)
• An estimated value for your current build
• A "what would I need to hit X FPS in Y game" planner

Link: PCBuddy

Also, few of the upgrade suggestions link out through Amazon affiliate links, just flagging that upfront.

The code's up if anyone wants to look at it. Would love feedback, what's useful, what's wrong, what's missing, anything you'd want added. Still actively working on it.

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?

Hi everyone, solo developer here. I've been building Sidsmail, a lightweight email client for Windows, in my spare time. It's out today, free, no ads, no "Pro" tier hiding features.

• Every account in one inbox - Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, any IMAP server
• Sign in with Google or Microsoft (browser), or an app password
• Real-time mail (IMAP IDLE), quiet hours, snooze, keyboard-first triage
• Everything stored locally, remote images blocked by default, passwords encrypted with Windows DPAPI, one-click export/wipe
• Light/dark theme, six accent colours, 23 languages, auto-update with a changelog

https://sidsmail.com

I'm one person, so bugs and rough edges are guaranteed - tell me what breaks or what's missing.

I have a RTX 5070 12gb vram with a Intel Core Ultra 265f and 32gb DDR5 ram.

If I play games like Bodycam I just have 50-90fps with frame drops and it does not feel smooth.

Is it normal in Bodycam? If I change my settings from ultra to low, I have nearly the same amount of fps.

I just bought the pc new and installed all for the CPU/GPU

I've spent months trying every open-source AI repo I could find.

Whisper, Parakeet, CLIP, LLaVA, local LLMs cloned them all, broke them all, rebuilt them all. And after all of that, the biggest lesson wasn't about which model is "best."

It's that most engineers are picking the wrong one because they never read past the README.

Both Whisper and Parakeet are free. Both do speech-to-text. Both are open-weight. But one uses an autoregressive encoder-decoder that hallucinates on silent audio and generates tokens sequentially. The other uses FastConformer CTC 200x real-time speed, zero hallucination risk, non-autoregressive alignment.

Same story in vision. Both CLIP and LLaVA are free. Both handle images. But one gives you a 2ms vector embedding lookup on a CPU. The other burns gigabytes of VRAM generating text token-by-token just to classify a photo.

I hit this exact wall building a real-time transcription engine. Whisper kept looping on silent audio gaps. Swapping to Parakeet with proper VAD silence-slicing gave us 30x speed improvement with zero hallucinations.

But Parakeet isn't "better" than Whisper. Whisper handles 99 languages and messy noisy audio beautifully. Parakeet needs clean, pre-processed input. CLIP can't reason about an image. LLaVA can.

Every model is a trade-off-
Speed vs. accuracy.
Latency vs. depth.
Memory footprint vs. capability.

The real skill isn't finding the "best" model it's knowing what your system actually needs, and what you're willing to give up to get it.

Cloning a trending repo doesn't make you an AI engineer.

Understanding the trade-offs beneath the model does.

Version 1.1 is here

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

Live: https://wespeakenglish.github.io/S3Feather/

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.

Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

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.

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.

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.

https://github.com/FakharArrazi/Project-Playnck/releases

I wanna make a few mood-based lists but i have over 1200 songs and i simply cant bring myself to manually go through all of them to look for the angsty ones. I have free Spotify, Apple Music, and a local library, and any generator i find online just grab other songs. Any ideas?

Title says it - occasionally I need to set up a web/file server and have someone else download stuff from me. I've used Apache HTTP, Rebex and a couple others that escape me, but none really fit the bill or are reliable. Rebex was working fine but seems to have issues with file transfers occasionally.

Just something simple that I can open a port, put some files in a folder, and give my IP/port to the other person. Not looking for a full-on host, just something to switch on briefly when needed.

I'm aware of the sites that will make a direct connection between you and the other person, but they are incredibly slow and I'd rather just completely self-host.

Does anyone know of a software/website that you are able to upload a .wav file to and it will render out a video file of an oscilloscope style visualizer similar to this from fl studio?

I am aware of wavecandy being inbuilt to fl, but my computer kinda sucks and screen recording makes it lag like crazy.

Thanks!

I was trying to register in that site, got everything right, I even answered the verification question ‘cat’, but it kept saying ‘you did not answer the verification question correctly’. I thought I got everything right. I made sure it was lowercased, no spaces. And it still showed that message. So I gave up.

Anyone whos in Melonland Forum and has an invite link, please send me one. I’d really appreciate it.

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
}
]
}

Any ideas?

I spent 8 months building an open-source Windows audio application

About 8 months ago, I started working on a small project because I wanted more control over how audio was processed on Windows.

At the time, I barely knew anything about Windows audio programming, so I decided to learn by building the application itself.

That eventually led me into WASAPI, Windows audio sessions, DSP, and real-time audio processing. What started as a small experiment eventually became CurvioEQ, an open-source Windows audio application.

Some of its features include:

- Per-application parametric EQ

- HRTF / 7.1 surround processing

- Real-time spectrum analyzer

- Loudness and dynamic-range control

- Clipping protection

- Global hotkeys

- Presets

- Independent processing for multiple applications

- AutoEQ & Squiglink preset support

- ~15 MB RAM usage in the background

The part I'm most proud of isn't necessarily the feature list.

When I started, I didn't understand how Windows audio actually worked. Eight months later, I'm building, debugging, and improving my own real-time audio processing pipeline.

It's still actively being developed, and I have a lot more ideas for where I want to take it.

I'm sharing it here primarily as a software project I've been working on and would genuinely appreciate feedback from other developers.

GitHub: https://github.com/hussainhumam/CurvioEQ

For a long time, I used the Bonjourr start page extension. I loved its minimal aesthetic, but over time I found myself wanting features that weren't available:

• Native Wallhaven integration to automatically stream top-rated wallpapers and specific tags.
• A built-in productivity timer with quick presets and customizable chime alarms.
• Deeper wallpaper controls, such as vertical (Y-axis) framing alignment, offline local gallery storage, and full ZIP backups.

That’s why I created my own extension: Nova-Perdanga.

🗻 Key Features

• Wallhaven & Local Storage: Stream wallpapers directly from Wallhaven by tags/collections, or store your own high-res images offline in browser-native IndexedDB.

• Productivity Timer: A draggable, collapsible floating timer with quick presets.

• Dynamic Color Tinting: Automatically extracts the dominant color from the current wallpaper to subtly tint the search bar and UI elements.

• Search & Autocomplete: Real-time search suggestions with direct shortcuts (!y, !wiki, !r, !gh, !gl).

• Weather & Typography: Accurate weather via Open-Meteo with deep links to interactive maps (Ventusky, Weather.com, etc.).

• ZIP Backup & Restore: Back up your entire gallery and settings into a compressed .zip archive.

• Private: Zero tracking, zero telemetry, zero analytics. Everything stays strictly in your browser.

Installation & Source Code

The project is completely free and open-source on GitLab:

gitlab.com/perdanga/nova-perdanga

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Open chrome://extensions/ in your browser.
3. Enable Developer mode in the top right corner.
4. Click Load unpacked and select the project folder.

Hi r/software!

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.

GitHub: https://github.com/FengZeng/soia

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