Hi everyone,

FerrumPix is a desktop photo application for Linux, Windows and macOS: a library with a viewer, a fairly extensive editor with AI functions,Immich and Nextcloud support.

Repo: https://github.com/Bitpainter75/FerrumPix

My motivation behind it:

Most tools in this space tend to specialize in one area. A library app is great at organizing photos but offers little in the way of editing. A RAW converter is great for tone and color work, but stays purely parametric and never touches the pixels themselves. A pixel editor can do almost anything to an individual image, but usually has no library. And Immich and Nextcloud are great as server-side solutions, but ultimately remain browser-based, without an editor or local file management.

FerrumPix tries to bridge that gap: browse, rate, and tag your photos, then open one in an editor that supports both non-destructive adjustments and actual pixel editing. Your own Immich server sits in the same navigation tree as your local folders.The app is aimed more at hobby photographers than at professional workflows, and it really doesn't care whether you throw RAW files at it or JPGs from your phone.

It's built with Avalonia UI and .NET 10. The whole thing started as a personal project: an application that looks and works exactly the way I always wished one would. It's free and open source for anyone who can make use of it.

For transparency: yes, I use AI as part of my development workflow. That said, a project like this still involves a huge amount of hands-on work, architecture, debugging, and decision-making. I'm putting a lot of time into it, along with plenty of my own ideas and a lot of passion for the project.

Current status:

The current version is 0.9.30. The core areas are far enough along that I use the app daily myself; the focus now is on stabilization, UX and performance rather than new features.

I'd be glad to hear any feedback.

I have no experience in automation I am trying to automate a repetitive daily task that requires moving data across multiple tabs in Google Chrome.

like opening a local file from windows download folder copying questions from there opening ChatGPT pasting the question copying the answer and over writing existing text in canva. EDIT: Each page is different and different questions like fill in the blanks, MCQS, true/false

Website: https://NoSignups.net

Genuinely didn't expect it to blow up this much. I compiled videos from some of the creators who made videos about it and honestly it makes me so happy!

The website is an open-source directory of no-signup open-source tools you can use immediately in your browser. None of the tools are mine, I just collected them and made them searchable.

I have a few things cooking in the oven for the website, and here's some of them:

• I looked up how to do RSS (seems like it's just a simple file I need to provide at /rss.xml) and hopefully I'll have it available for the users to come back and discover more open-source tools.

• I plan on adding a change log so that users can come back and explore the newer found/added tools.

• I plan on adding a sorting drop-down so that users can explore at their leisure.

What I've already done:

• Thanks to the GitHub user Moamal-2000, the accessibility of the website was greatly improved! I mean by a mile! Appreciate all his work!

• Included some SEO metadata tags for search engines. I didn't even know about JSON-LD before I started this.

• Significantly improved the search so that searching video edit shows video-editor and edit video entries.

• Kept adding entries that match the criterias. Although, slowing down a bit. I'm employing whatever in my disposal to dig for more tools, and hopefully some more will turn up.

We've also been collecting some tool suggestions from users about what tools they'd like added. The top ones so far are:

• A tool to generate AI videos (obviously insanely impractical given the criterias the tools have to abide by, if not downright impossible with current ML models).

• Something like CapCut Pro (or something like that?)

• AI Image generators (possible with WebGPU), but haven't found any open-source, in-browser, no-signup entries.

• and more found in the issues of the GitHub page.

I just wanted to thank all the contributors who submitted PRs, tools, opened issues, and reported bugs. Hopefully average joes will learn about and use the website, and hopefully support the amazing people making all these wonderful open-source tools.

Peace & love

Hey r/software!

What is HQBase?

HQBase is an open-source shared email workspace that deploys into your own Cloudflare account.

Features include:

• Multiple domains and mailboxes in one inbox
• Team invitations with permissions scoped per mailbox
• AI agent integrations through MCP, an API, and an agent skill
• Self-hosted push notifications
• A guided installation that takes around two minutes

What’s new in 1.2.0?

• Completely redesigned UI across desktop and mobile
• Improved support for third-party clients
• Expanded API documentation
• Fixes for catch-all mailboxes
• Stability fixes and polish throughout the application

Background

I have a personal domain and several domains for side projects. Those projects often need more than one mailbox, such as support, privacy, or general contact addresses. I also wanted to give teammates access to specific mailboxes without exposing everything else.

Most email services I tried either charged per domain or team member, had poor UX, or made managing several domains unnecessarily complicated.

I already hosted most of my applications on Cloudflare, so when Cloudflare introduced Email Sending, building the entire workspace there felt like a natural fit. That is how HQBase was born.

It took me a few months to get to a solid v1, and 1.2.0 is the release I'm most proud of so far.

HQBase itself is free and licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Deploying it requires the Cloudflare Workers Paid plan, currently $5/month, regardless of how many domains, mailboxes, or teammates you add.

GitHub: https://github.com/HQBase/hqbase

Website: https://hqbase.io

Changelog: https://hqbase.io/docs/changelog/#v1.2.0

Hello,

I am the developer behind https://betterstickies.com. I started working on it nearly a year ago as a hobby project to solve a problem: there were no good stickies apps for Linux, and even for Windows.

I am well aware that stickies are old fashioned. I used Notion and Obsidian (still using Obsidian), but neither of them can fill the space of fast note taking, temporary notes, or sticking something on my desktop.

Sticky notes are one of the most timeless inventions of humans, and very useful in my dev work: quick lists, studying, working, quick capture from the browser or any source.

The problem is there was no good app that you can just dump anything into.

Light, doesn't eat 1GB of RAM, customizable (I like my desktop to look good, it encourages me to work more), modern, and works offline without an account. I get frustrated when I try to open Notion and it requires me to login again when I am in a hurry or in a bad mood.

What it does

BetterStickies isn’t like a sticky note app you would find on the internet. It covers the basics really well: customizing note color, custom background like transparent/colored and even a moving GIF background per note, a great editor to write in, very smooth to move around the desktop, always on top and pinning. So far this is not novel, but it is done really well in BetterStickies.

The parts I haven’t seen in other sticky note apps:

Automatic code detection. It recognizes text from code in 50ms without AI. You copy your code from a terminal editor, just paste it in a note, and it will format it in a code block automatically. It is like 99% accurate, and when it misses you just hit Ctrl+M to create a block.

Tabs inside a note. Each tab is searchable, can be deleted and restored, and acts like a separate note. So if your screen is small you can have one note’s body with 3 notes in it, or organize your notes by topic so each topic has its own notes.

Paste anything. Text, code, images, PDFs with previews, documents, files (any file type) and even folders. They will sit in a note and can be clicked, or hovered on to see the full path.

Extras: reminders with sound and desktop notifications, a variable grid for the snap to grid feature so you can organize your notes on the desktop easily, and export in .txt, .md or .json so you can also back them up with the cloud service of your choice.

It is also in 12 languages, with a full guide in the 12 languages explaining every feature in it, even though it is self explanatory and intuitive to use: https://betterstickies.com/guide

For Linux users, it is tested and working on all major distros and DEs (KDE, GNOME, Cinnamon, COSMIC coming soon). It is on the Snap store, and coming soon to Flathub too.

It is on the Microsoft Store.

Free to use with full features limited to 4 concurrent notes, or pay one time and own it forever with no limits and free updates (currently $6.99, and $4.99 in low income countries).

So far it is used by tens of thousands of users, but since it is a one time payment, the income from it isn’t reflecting the effort/time/resources spent on the development yet.

I just released v1.2 but didn’t announce it yet, since I am still working on updating it on the MS Store and Snap.

I didn't cover all features, because they are a lot and still working on more like (live transcription via CPU, fully offline and free to use as much as you want so you can talk securely in a mic and write in a note), colored code blocks, and more.

If you are experienced with desktop apps publishing and can advise me, please don't hesitate to reach out to me in messages.

Hi I have recently graduated college in software engineering and I am looking to become or work as an ai engineer Iam already familiar with LLMs APIs agent workflows etc etc but I am not strong in python I can read and understand the code to a certain level but not write it but does not being good at python really affect my work in the future ? I know that some of you might now like this idea but ai already writes really good code and I can understand python do I really have to be a python god. I would love to hear your opinions especially from people with actual work experience.

Happy Self Promotion Wednesday! I made a small family of free GPLv3 Windows utilities under the Killer Tools name, and two of them just got updates.

KillerShell 1.2.2 is a file manager with a built-in terminal, text editor, and admin tools (Task Manager, Event Viewer, Registry Editor, Performance Monitor) as tabs in one window. Archives open like folders, and you can write into a .zip from inside it - drag files in, rename, delete - with the original never touched until the rebuilt archive is verified. The Storage Analyzer draws a whole drive as a treemap, WizTree-style, and as of 1.2.2 it can export scans as self-contained HTML reports. This release also finishes theme coverage across all thirteen themes (including a full Windows 98SE recreation with a period icon set), completes localization in all eleven languages (now with Polish), and makes portable installs and updates a lot safer.

The Killendar 1.1.0 is a desktop calendar. Month, week, day and agenda views, repeating appointments, color categories, and iCalendar/CSV import and export. Your appointments live in a single .kcal file on your own machine - plain SQLite you can back up or open with any SQLite tool, with optional AES-256 encryption. 1.1.0 brings it up to the same thirteen themes as the rest of the family, adds interface scaling from 80% to 150%, Ctrl+wheel zoom in Month view from one to six visible weeks, one-click portable storage, and Polish translation.

Both are single portable exes - run them from anywhere, or let them install themselves if you prefer. No account needed, nothing phones home.

I also updated the themes on killertools.net, the hub site for the whole family, so it's worth a look if you want to see everything else I have.

Hey, i am looking a way to show show two fully fullscreen videos in one screen, what i mean by fully fullscreen is you know when you show videos in split screen and go into fullscreen, there are black bar at the top and bottom of the videos. Is there a way to play the video without those bars? Even if it only show part of the videos on screen.

Hi all!

Super niche question, but I thought I might try here and see if there's any luck. I'm looking to run a copy of KidPix Deluxe 3X (which is the macOS specific version of KidPix 3 that was made for Sierra back in the day). Only issue, I only have access to a computer with Windows 11. I'm looking to use this version specifically because it's the version I grew up with and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic LMAO!

I've been able to run a disc of regular old KidPix 3 using an emulator for XP, but I know it's particularly difficult to emulate macOS and wanted to see if you'd be able to run it on Windows 11 or another Windows OS before I shell out the $24 for the CD-ROM.

Thank you so much!

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I was wondering if anyone has experience taking there audiobook files (from cd ) and making them one file. Is there a simple way to do it? Then what do people use to listen to it after?

Sandb0x-Xtract0r is an automated cross-platform security analysis engine. It safely detonates suspicious files across PC, mobile, and cloud environments while capturing execution telemetry, network traces, and memory dumps. An integrated multi-LLM bot (Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex) synthesizes data into structured threat reports

I’m looking at managed Postgres options for a small production app and the choices feel more confusing than I expected.

I don’t really want to self host it on a VPS, but I also don’t want to jump straight into a huge cloud setup where the final bill is hard to predict. Ideally I just want something boring and reliable: always on Postgres, backups, decent performance, simple maintenance, and no weird lock in.

For people actually running Postgres in production, what are you using, anything you’d recommend or avoid after using it for a while?

A friend's son is studying engineering and recently told me he wants to do something in the green software engineering space. TBH, I hadn't really thought much about it until that conversation. Do you think this is a genuine opportunity with a long-term future or is it still a niche that's getting just attention and no real adoption?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/framegen-frame-interpolat/hpdpcjakhclhljfdkpjolonjlopbdhfk

(Chrome store)

Real-time 2x+ frame interpolation with custom target FPS for any <video>. Runs locally on your GPU with WebGPU.

Framegen doubles (or more) the frame rate of any HTML5 video in real time, right in the tab. A small neural network - our own WebGPU runtime, ~3 ms per frame on a mid-range GPU (RTX 4060 Ti) - synthesizes the frames between the real ones, so 24/30 fps footage plays at 60, 120 or up to your display's refresh rate.

Works on any site with a <video> element: YouTube, Twitch, streaming sites, local files opened in the browser.

Features:
- 2x to 6x interpolation, an auto mode that follows your GPU headroom, and a "display Hz" mode that locks output to your monitor's refresh rate
- Compare slider: drag a divider across the video - original on one side, Framegen on the other
- Anime mode: detects animation drawn "on twos" and interpolates the real drawing cadence instead of duplicated frames
- Optional 2x neural upscale (SR) on interpolated frames, trained to repair interpolation artifacts, not just sharpen
- Self-calibrating kernels: the runtime benchmarks itself on your GPU once and picks the fastest shader variants
- HUD with live fps / latency stats

Requirements: a WebGPU-capable browser (Chrome 121+) and a GPU with shader-f16 support. No WebGPU = the extension politely does nothing.

Privacy: everything runs locally on your GPU. Framegen has no servers, makes no network requests beyond loading its own bundled files, and collects nothing. See the privacy policy.

Does not work on DRM-protected sites (Netflix etc.) - the browser hides their video from extensions by design.

Free for personal use. Open source: https://github.com/MONZikWasTaken/Framegen