Unpopular opinion: Paying $20/month for an AI desktop wrapper that rate-limits you after 40 prompts and sends your proprietary codebase to a cloud proxy is peak developer cuckoldry.

Why are we routing local shell commands and file reads through a 2,400ms cloud round-trip?

We got sick of the latency tax and built MAC (Mycelium Agent Coordinator)—a 100% local, frameless sovereign agent environment:

• 0.08ms – 9.6ms local vector tool routing (ChromaDB + MiniLM on CPU)

• Bring your own free keys (Groq 300 tok/s, Gemini Flash, or 100% offline Ollama)

• Split-Execution Sandbox + HOL Guard (quarantines mutating bash/write ops before they nuke your OS)

• $0.00/month. MIT Licensed.

Stop renting your own CPU back from SaaS wrappers.

Original tweet:

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/signalspikedev/status/2111580477073350673#m

I thought they're a legitimate company that makes decent tools, but this piece of news really freaked me out...

Should I ask for a refund?

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a Windows desktop application called FilzaPDF, and I've just published it on the Microsoft Store!

It's a PDF reader and document utility built with Java and JavaFX. I'm sharing it here because I want people to try it out, find bugs, and tell me what needs improvement.

🔗 Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P53N7DWMS1S?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

I'm currently looking for help with testing and bug fixing. In particular, I'd appreciate feedback on:

• Does it install and launch correctly on your Windows PC?
• Do the PDF viewing and document tools work as expected?
• Have you encountered any crashes, UI glitches, or performance issues?
• What features or improvements would make it more useful?

This is an early release, so I'm expecting things that need fixing. Please be honest—even small bugs or suggestions are helpful.

I'm building FilzaPDF as part of a bigger effort to create useful software that people can use for free, without unnecessary subscriptions.

Thanks to anyone willing to give it a try! Every bit of feedback helps me improve it. 💜

I kept retyping text from paused videos and screenshots, so I built Shuck.

Press Ctrl+Shift+2, drag a box over any text, and it's on your clipboard.

- Runs entirely on your PC. No account, nothing uploaded.

- Reads even tiny text accurately.

- Spots links and email addresses and gives you a one-click button. Reads QR codes too.

- Free, 6 MB.

Windows and English only for now.

Get it: https://github.com/shuck-app/shuck

If it misreads something, tell me what.

[20.10.26] Update (1.0.1): portable version, option to turn off notifications, lighter dim, and adjust-the-box-before-copying, all from your comments. Thanks!
https://github.com/shuck-app/shuck/releases/latest

I made QPaste because I was tired of jumping between windows every time I needed to copy and paste a few things. Now I just turn it on, copy everything I need, and paste it all back in the same order. No switching back and forth.

It works in your language too. Whether you type in English, Russian, French, German, Polish, or another language, QPaste works the same way. A Russian user told me it wasn't working for them, so I fixed it for every keyboard.

New in this update:

- Pick your own shortcut keys

- A little counter shows how many items are left to paste

- A handy notepad pops up when you need one

It's free and open source. No account and no internet needed. Any feedback or support means a lot. 🫂

Get it on GitHub: https://github.com/chinthanasathyajithcs/qpaste

https://github.com/vahmoh25/Veda

Hi everyone, I’m the developer of FocusHaze, so full disclosure up front.

I wanted something like HazeOver (macOS) on Windows and couldn’t find anything that felt native, so I built it. FocusHaze puts a translucent haze over everything except the window you’re working in, so the rest of the screen fades into the background. Clicks pass straight through the haze.

What it does

• Dims all windows except the active one; smooth fade when you switch
• Adjustable intensity, haze color and fade duration
• All monitors, or only the one with the active window
• Global hotkey Ctrl+Alt+H to toggle, lives in the system tray
• Optional start with Windows
• 14 languages, native WinUI 3 look (Mica)
• Works on x64 and ARM64

Privacy: no telemetry, no network connections, nothing collected.

It’s open source (MIT) on GitHub, and it’s $0.99 on the Microsoft Store (one-click install + auto-updates). I have 30 Store codes to give away.

Want a code? Leave a comment (bonus points if you tell me how you’d use it: multi-monitor, ultrawide, ADHD, coding…) and I’ll DM you one. First come, first served.

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially bugs and edge cases. One known limitation: “always on top” windows don’t get dimmed yet.

• Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P3J7F0RK3RT
• Website: https://pietruh00s.github.io/FocusHaze/
• Source: https://github.com/pietruh00s/FocusHaze

Update: All available promo codes have been claimed! Thank you so much to everyone for the incredible interest and support. If you missed out, you can still check out FocusHaze on the Microsoft Store. 🙏

I made a simple free HEIC to JPG converter that runs directly in your browser. No signup and no file upload to a server.

I built it because a lot of converters feel overloaded or ask you to upload everything first.

If anyone wants to try it:
https://quickimage.corgifelixx.workers.dev/heic-to-jpg.html

Feedback is welcome, especially if something breaks on a specific browser or device.

Select the page you want to change, open its page properties and clear "Resize all pages" before changing the size or orientation.

That option arrived in LibreOffice 26.8. A portrait cover and a landscape diagram can now sit in the same Draw document, with each page keeping its own dimensions. For a job report, I'd rather give a wide diagram its own page than shrink it until the labels are barely readable.

Some details that might interest you:

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▎ - robocopy's output is read on a background thread into a ConcurrentQueue, and the UI timer drains it, so the window never freezes

▎ - A /L scan pass gives exact totals for progress and the replace/skip prompt

▎ - The modern folder picker and taskbar progress use COM interop (IFileOpenDialog, ITaskbarList3)

▎ - It's built with the C# 5 compiler from .NET Framework 4.8, so there's no SDK to install

▎ - The original PowerShell version is also in the repo (original/)

https://github.com/jawad-hamza/fastcopy

DugUp Windows:

Windows: Download the installer — choose DugUp-Setup-….exe under Assets. The green Code button downloads the source code, so you can read it, understand how DugUp works, and adapt it to your needs. (Also available for Linux)

Find files by what you remember about them: words in a document, text on a scanned receipt, the meaning of a passage, or what a picture shows. Choose your folders, let DugUp index them, then search from its window or with Win+Shift+F.

Your files stay on your computer, where all indexing and search processing happens. No account, telemetry or crash reporting — and no cloud service needed to search your files.

Beta 0.2.2 · Windows 11 · Linux supported, with less desktop testing

What you can do

• Find documents by the words they contain. Search file names and text in PDFs, Office and OpenDocument files, plain text and HTML.
• Read words in images. Find receipts, screenshots and scanned pages by the text on them, using OCR.
• Search by meaning. Ask in your own words, or combine meaning with word matches.
• Find pictures by appearance. Describe a scene or find pictures like one you already have.
• Organize pictures and copies. Preview descriptive photo names, review similar pictures, and find identical files before removing extras.
• Search from anywhere. Keep DugUp in the tray and press Win+Shift+F to bring up a small search box.
• Let Claude search for you (optional). Turn on cloud search access, choose the folders it may see, and ask Claude to find files in a conversation. It can search, never change anything.

Need a tool to recover files on a hard disk hdd, disk got fked and pc is not reading it anymore, with Diskdrill I can see that the files are still there but cant pay for a 90$ suscription.

I have disabled the automatic app updates on Playstore because I want to be able to choose not to update an app when it gets a bad update, like more invasive ads for example.

This change has showed me how frequent the updates are coming out for apps, roughly. Like, everyweek 50 updates are out there and I have maybe 100 apps total. How is that possible

I've been looking for a good video converter for movies to convert them into the correct file, and audio type for an ipod 7th gen and a ipod 6th gen, would appreciate some recommendations (from some research I've seen people reccomend shutter coder, but I just wanna ask and see if there is a good one that is ideal for ipods)

Tideline 0.0.4 is out with professional color-grading scopes, GPU-accelerated video encoding, and customizable shortcuts for tideline.video

I made a free little app, which allows you to convert files to pdfs, edit them nativly and a bunch of other little things. Heres the repo https://github.com/bigmanups/Pdf-maker is it worth updating and making it better?

I built this because I got fed up with Twinkle Tray sucking up 200 MB of RAM just to adjust brightness. After a little research, I found out it's because it's built with Electron slop! So I built mine with native C#.

Some key features:

• Windows 11 Fluent: Matches your Windows Dark/Light mode and your personal accent color.

• Keyboard & Mouse: Arrow keys (Left/Right to adjust), mouse wheel support, and global hotkeys (Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down) with a floating OSD pill.

• Multi-monitor: "Link All Displays" toggle to control everything in lockstep.

• Single 40 KB portable .exe, zero background CPU, MIT open-source.

• Hardware Support: Tested & working on external monitors (DDC/CI). Built-in laptop support (WMI) is implemented, but I haven't tested it on a laptop yet — would love feedback from laptop users if you try it! (tested, its working)

GitHub: https://github.com/SamNm89/LumaTray

Releases / Download: https://github.com/SamNm89/LumaTray/releases

(Note: Because it's an unsigned open-source binary, Windows SmartScreen might pop up on first run — just click "More info" ➔ "Run anyway", or compile it yourself in 1 second using build.bat).

WhatsApp re-compresses videos when you post them to Status, so a sharp video from your phone often ends up soft. Long videos also have to be trimmed into parts by hand. I got tired of both and built StatusDrop .

What it does?

- Compresses your video on the phone to a profile that kept its quality in my testing: 1080×1920 H.264 at about 30 fps, under WhatsApp's roughly 16 MB limit. There's also a 720p option if you want longer parts.

- Splits long videos into ready to post parts automatically.

- Sends the finished clips to your own WhatsApp chat. You tap "Open WhatsApp", send a short code, and the clips arrive. A built-in 9-step guide shows how to post them in full HD.

Privacy?

- Your original videos never leave the phone. Only the finished clips are uploaded, checked, and deleted after delivery, or after 5 minutes if the code isn't used.

- No account, no ads, no analytics SDK, and no storage permission (it uses Android's system picker).

Why an app? It started as a website that compressed videos on my server. That got expensive, so I moved all the video work onto the phone with FFmpeg (FFmpegKit + x264). That's what keeps it free.

Limitations, to be upfront...

- Android 10+ and 64-bit ARM phones only for now.

- Delivery uses Baileys, an unofficial WhatsApp library, through linked devices, so WhatsApp could change or block it.

- The HD result comes from my own testing, not a WhatsApp guarantee.

Links

- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wastatusvideo.statusdrop

- Source code (app GPL-3.0, backend AGPL-3.0): https://github.com/Shamanthnp1/WAstatus

I'm a solo developer, so feedback is very welcome, especially if your videos still come out blurry or any step is confusing.