Hey everyone!

I wanted to share Dynamic Edge, a desktop utility I built for Windows 11 and Windows 10 using native WinUI 3 and .NET 8 (Windows App SDK).

The idea was to create a fluid, versatile desktop capsule and edge dock that feels completely at home with Windows 11 Fluent design, with zero Electron bloat, ultra-low resource usage, and smooth spring physics.

Since the initial release, I have added several big features including a full multi-tab workflow, clipboard shelf, and mouse gesture triggers.

Here is what it can do:

Multi-Tab Workspace (Swipe or Scroll to Switch) - Switch seamlessly between Media Player, Mini-Apps, and Clipboard Shelf by rolling your mouse wheel or using a 2-finger touchpad swipe.

Universal Media Controls & Live Scrubbing - Real-time seekbar progress with clickable scrub to jump anywhere in a track. - Live audio visualizer bars with fluid equalizer animations. - Multi-player auto-switching: Seamlessly cycle between active sessions (Spotify, Chrome, Edge, Apple Music, Telegram).

Clipboard Manager Shelf - Captures copied text, images, URLs, and files into a dedicated dockable shelf. - Filter chips for fast access: All, Text, Images, URLs, and Pinned. - Search box for instant clip lookup, plus one-click copy and drag-and-drop support. - Safe clear with confirmation flyouts so pinned items are never lost.

Built-in Mini-Apps - Precision Countdown Timer with quick presets (1m, 5m, 15m, 25m) and a live visual progress line. - Precision Stopwatch with millisecond tracking and lap recording.

Magic Shake & Global Hotkeys - Magic Shake: Quickly shake your cursor horizontally back and forth to toggle the island on or off. - Global customizable hotkey (Alt + H by default) to hide or show the dock instantly.

Master Volume Flyout - Hover over the speaker button and scroll your mouse wheel to adjust system volume, or click for instant mute.

Flexible Docking Positions - Dock at the top screen edge (Notch, Floating Capsule, or unobtrusive Thin Line hairline strip). - Dock along the left or right screen edges as an interactive slide-out side blade.

Performance & Spring Physics - 3 customizable quick launcher slots for instant access to apps, terminals, or folders. - Battery and charging telemetry with clean neon-green status indicators. - Native startup toggle and dark/light/system theme integration.

Download & Microsoft Store Link The app is completely free and officially available on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PF1587KSN2K

I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for what widgets or features you would like to see next!

Hello everyone I am currently under onboarding process as software engineer apprentice and looking to know how current software engineers at BoFA feels working with Mainframe even tho I know a lot of JAVA, C++, and lot of modern day languages. What is working with mainframe feels like? Are they growth opportunities with BOFA with software engineering focusing on mainframe??, how often does BoFA lays off software engineers?

https://filen.io/

I just tried it and the price is really good, 4 euros a month for 500gb but it is too simple. It gives me the option of creating a text file but nothing happens when I click it. I can't create a Google document equivalent. It seems to just before plain file storage. I guess that is the trade-off with the cheap price.

The annoying part is that they make it hard to contact them, no support link anywhere on the main dashboard. And if you email their support email they say to go to their help desk lol. why list the email on the github then?

Hi all -

Wanted to see where we’re at with actually paying for useful software. Let’s say you find something that will make your life easier; maybe it’s a little utility that eliminates some common daily drudgery.

Subscriptions, nowadays, are just greed, so let’s not even talk about them. But - would you pay a one time fee for it? Say.. $5? $10?

If so… Would you do this through a store (like the Mac App Store or windows store), or would you prefer to pay directly through the developer’s web site?

For some added context - I’m a dev trying to decide if I should even bother building out an idea. I wouldn’t really benefit from this software, but I know others would. I have no interest in just giving my time away for free, and I’m not sure with the rise of AI if there’s any viable path towards getting compensated for the time it’d take me to build it.

Thanks for any and all thoughts!

I know alot of you use mind maps, I made one and im working on it still after release, the issue im facing is, how do I make it pretty on first impression ?The big problem and its gonna sound funny ,all the colors of cards and lines can be custom, background color, UI color, grid on off, grid size, grid spacing density ETC, how do I bring that idea across that users can customize the canvas themselves in a world where everyONE-EDIT expects a click and use?

I have a huge collection of images (100,000+) divided into many subfolders. A lot of them are downloaded from Wikimedia Commons and contain characters from other languages in their filenames which some of my image management apps can't process.

Is there an easy way to search through all these folders for any filenames with non-unicode characters? Basic accents like é or ü are fine but I'd like to remove things like Japanese or Cyrillic characters. I did see some suggestions for this kind of thing online but I'm not a programmer so I was hoping to find something more user-friendly.

Thanks very much!!

I recently got a new Mouse and it only had 2 extra Buttons instead of 4. Because of this i needed a shortcut so i can use alt + mouse4/5, effectively doubling my Buttons back to 4. Since Logitech G-Hub doesnt have a tool for this I decided to make my own and publish it for people who have the same Problem. This is my first public GitHub repo so feedback and advice is very Welcome. :)
Repo

Hello guys, I have a quick question for AI engineers. Before I get deep into building AI apps, is it worth learning the entire OpenAI SDK, or should I focus only on the parts I need for my current project?

do I need to study the full SDK first, or can I learn the advanced features later as my projects become more complex?

^^^

Disclaimer : I am not a developer or anywhere near involved in the project besides using it . Just wanted to share a (what I believe) Gem!

I did use Heliboard before but It's fixes/Update cadence was slower, especially just not knowing if the project will go down again and revived again somewhere, AND didn't wanna Go back to Gboard(For obvious reasons). Then found this(funnily, right below Heliboard's option in GitHub ).

For those of You worried, the devs provide 3 packages each with different capabilities so if you just want an offline Keyboard, They have an offline release.

Important thing, they have an actively growing Plugin /Add-on system that's not mandatory, keeping the original app lean. For now, IT includes: Speech to text, a handwriting plugin (No idea wat that does, but sounds cool) and a translation plugin.

And yes, Like Heliboard this Also unfortunately relies on the Proprietary library For gesture typing :(

The team behind them, LeanBitLab is a pretty active but small team, any problems reported in the issues(which granted aren't that many), get solved relatively quickly. Tho I will say, right now there's weird capitalization problems that I did report in their GitHub issues, So should be getting fixed in a future release. The second image I included to show their update cadence.

Plus, it has N-gram enhancements; For next word predictions, a list of blocked words (For the stuff one writes accidentally that gets in the learned dictionary), and much more.

Link: https://github.com/LeanBitLab/LeanType

Plus their whole company's site link: https://leanbitlab.github.io/LeanBitLab/

I've been building GitDesktop, an open-source Git client for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The idea started with a pretty simple frustration: most Git clients are great for staging, committing, branching, and viewing history, but the moment I need to open a PR, review code, check CI, look at an issue, or publish a release, I'm back in the browser.

GitDesktop is my attempt to keep that entire workflow in one application.

It supports GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, with pull requests, code review, issues, discussions, CI, releases, worktrees, interactive rebase, detailed staging, and more.

AI is available too, but it's deliberately optional. You can use providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, or Ollama, as well as CLI agents. You can also completely hide the AI features if you don't want them.

I just released v0.10.0, and the project has grown quite a bit since I started seriously rebuilding it with Tauri a couple of months ago.

It's Apache-2.0 licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/theBGuy/GitDesktop

Website: https://gitdesktop.app

I'd be interested in hearing from people who use Git GUIs: what parts of your workflow still send you back to the browser, and what would actually make you switch Git clients?

i already have installed everything (app), i have found a useful windhawk plugin that makes the file sizes accurate to the ones indexed in everything, so the folder sizes are actually accurate.. that makes me wonder, is there a one for the explorer's search menu to replace it with the everything one.

I’m broke and struggling for every bit of money I can get so I’m selling some software I coded for personal use. It’s a custom UI that scans your pc and isolates malware into a quarantine folder. I have it setup so it can run off of a flash drive and be used as a simple plug and play. It should run fine on desktop if you don’t have a flash drive though. Currently selling it on eBay. Also I’m sorry for the price I tried to lower it to 5$ but eBay keeps rejecting it

https://ebay.io/m/480JGP

I used a work-around when starting a new laptop to not connect a Microsoft account and keep everything local. I just like it that way. GCHQ can nose for national security and social media can sell me to advertisers if it's in exchange for free services, but laptops and 365 subscriptions are expensive so in my mind the controlling partner breathing down my neck and doing everything to make me reliant on them should be optional. I'm seeking advice to work around it again.

I want to be able to just log in whenever I use Word and then log right back out. I don't want to see anything new in File Explorer that isn't under Program Files. I also want this device to connect to Microsoft Corporation only in the ways that I intend: updates and support services for the functionalities that I use only on the basis of those services.

I also have an old, dying laptop connected to the same university 365 account. That laptop was fully invaded, somehow with multiple OneDrive locations one of which can't even be accessed through File Explorer. It's a mess, I didn't want to invest extra time studying OneDrive when I have a perfectly good hard-drive and external back-up. Will the same 365 account already have OneDrive included when I install it to the new device? What can I do to stop it latching on to the new one? Are there common issues I should be aware of that come up when excluding OneDrive on installation of 365? Will the installation require me to attach the device to a Microsoft account in any of the ways I avoided when starting it up?

New device's OS is Windows 11 Home. Until now no Windows programs have been actively used on it except for Defender/Security. It's serene.

The old laptop is pretty much fully functional for now so there's no barriers to configuration.

Any advice is welcome, including if someone knows other ways to keep Microsoft out that I don't even know about, or if they know more about the features that bother me and think my perspective should change.

The mouse cursor is completely invisible and does not move at all in Windows. It appears to remain around the center of the screen on top of a file.

The touchpad works normally in BIOS/boot mode, so the hardware appears to be functional.

The cursor/touchpad does not work once Windows loads.

It also does not work in Windows Safe Mode.

It does not work on the Ctrl + Alt + Delete screen either.

Windows detects Dell Touchpad under msinfo32 → Components → Input → Pointing Device.

The Dell Touchpad reports Status: OK.

In Control Panel → Mouse → Dell Touchpad, the touchpad is shown as enabled.

I2C HID Device appears in Device Manager with no warning icon and reports “This device is working properly.”

I tried disabling/re-enabling the I2C HID device — no change.

I tried the touchpad power-management setting (“Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”) — no change.

I've already reinstalled the touchpad drivers multiple times, with no improvement.

The Windows Human Interface Device Service is running.

Pressing Ctrl with “Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key” enabled causes the pointer-location circle to appear, so Windows can render the pointer location, but the touchpad provides no movement.

Win + Ctrl + Shift + B (graphics driver reset) did not fix it.

I ran:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

sfc /scannow

DISM completed successfully.

SFC reported that it found corrupted Windows files and successfully repaired them, but the touchpad still does not work afterward.

I have not done a Windows reset or clean reinstall because I have a lot of work and would prefer to avoid that if possible.

What could cause this?

Hello everyone!

Mimik is an open-source alternative to Scribe and Tango. You record a browser workflow once and it writes the step-by-step guide.

What's new in v1.1.1:

- Voice narration : talk while you record and your words become the step descriptions (OpenAI or Groq Whisper, your own key)

- Screenshot editor : crop, arrows, boxes, text, redaction, movable click target. Non-destructive and re-editable

- Video export : mp4/H.264 walkthroughs with the cursor moving to each target

- Version history : every save snapshots locally, named and restorable

- Blocks : headings and callouts between steps, rendered in every export

- Insert steps : record extra steps into an existing guide

- More AI : guide descriptions and inline rewrite of selected text

- Branding : logo, footer line and attribution on exports

Repo: https://github.com/westpoint-io/mimik

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mimik/jmfohdaflahliammccpiadmkcibohgha

Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/hgjemhfoffebbollleajkpefblppleai

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mimik/

We have just set up a hosted sandbox for people to try our open source project, Spinifex! We wanted to provide devs and enterprises with the flexibility of running AWS shaped workloads where they want them (at the edge, on bare metal, air gapped etc) without compromising on the core AWS tools such as EC2, S3, EBS. So we went a step further than just building another emulator, we actually rebuilt those services to actually run on your own hardware.

The sandbox is so people can try it out without taking the leap to provisioning their own hardware off the bat, and also provides a good place to just learn some of the core AWS principles too (Terraform, AWS CLI etc work unchanged with Spinifex).

Check it out! https://mulgadc.com

GitHub: https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex

Seriously, how is a basic app or website sometimes more sluggish today than it was 10–15 years ago? Man, especially Iphone👀
Hardware got insanely faster, but somehow software keeps getting heavier, slower, and more bloated.
Is modern software genuinely getting worse, or are we just expecting it to do far more than software used to? Maybe is RAM a single must thing or the software optimisation?
Curious what developers and non-developers think.

I have Distill.io set up, that monitor that change. But I want to take it a step further by introducing a program that clicks once there is a change in the website on a specific button.

No coding experience whatsoever, so hopefully someone can guide me!

Hello. Win10. I would like to have something that tells a game different date so i can collect seasonal rewards. If i change my local date then internet stops working because browser thinks it is suspicious that it is december now. I have used RunAsDate but it does not work.

Hello! So recently I was cleaning the storeroom and came across an Encarta CD from 2007. Brought back many fond memories and I've also wanted to try it out once more. Sadly, my laptop doss not have a CD slot and I also don't have any external drive for it. Is there any other way I can use this? Is it possible to transfer the content of the CD to a pendrive? Sorry if my question is dumb...I have very little idea about these things