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• Post #718488

  BrailleNote Evolve impressions: very, very nice. Incredibly light-weight, very fast, built pretty well, and it is a very rare type of notetaker that doesn't become e-waste as soon as you laeve education, because it runs regular Office apps and Windows 11 Pro. The BrailleSense 7 also seems like a pretty nice device, although I do miss the mini form factor, they've yet to do that for the 20, and running Android still means that your bespoke software and hardware will be utterly wor...

• Post #715362

  I got super tired of Microsoft seemingly being determined to make the app you turn to when your computer locks up and is laggy laggy itself with screen readers, so I wrote my own task manager. It's pure C ,not even linking against a CRT, meaning the current binary is around 20 KB including a complete, sortable process list. You can also customize what columns the list shows and how often you want it to refresh, if at all. I personally keep auto refresh off and just manually refresh with...

• Post #682236

  CMD is such a great shell, because I can type cd ../foldername, but I can't tab complete if I use slashes, it has to be backslashes. #YouHadOneJob

• Post #619975

  PDF is such a cursed goddamn format. I've just recently learned of a particular type of PDF file that doesn't actually include spaces in the text stream, but instead uses a bunch of fancy tricks to move the cursor to the right visually! This totally breaks Paperback, which is great. Might end up switching back to the tried and true pdfium.

• Post #561726

  wxWidgets 3.3.2 has now officially been released, which means dark mode will work properly in my desktop apps again soon thanks to my little pR! https://wxwidgets.org/news/2026/03/wxwidgets-3.2.10-and-3.3.2-released/

• Post #561724

  Second ever wxWidgets PR submitted, this time fixing all checkboxes having a label of "check", as horrifying as that is. Hoping for a hotfix.

• Post #505179

  Version 0.2.0 of Fedra, the blazing fast and fully native Rust Mastodon client by @Aryan and I just got a new update to version 0.2.0. Changelog: Added a webview-based dialog for viewing the raw contents of a post. #18. Added a new option, checked by default, to remove tracking parameters from URLs. Added an option to check for development builds upon update, not new stable releases. Added timeline templates, allowing you to customize everything about how Fedra's timeline entries are display...

• Post #458398

  Paperback version 0.8.0 is out! For those that don't know, Paperback is a fully accessible and blazing fast ebook/document reader that supports an insane number of formats. Changelog: Added Japanese, simplified Chinese, and Vietnamese translations! #300, #326, #335. Added an automatic updater that will now replace your currently installed version of Paperback instead of just downloading the new version! #323. Added optional sound feedback for reaching a bookmark or a note, thanks Andre Louis...

• Post #331865

  Okay, so can someone please explain to me why keepandroidopen.com is suddenly trending all of a sudden again? The site claims that the only statement made about allowing users to sideload was an obscure tweet, but I think this official Google blog post from November 12 of 2025 would disagree. It's a lot of generic corprit BS, talking about why they want to implement it, but it explicitly mentions implementing a solution for hobbiests and smaller devs, so...what exactly is the problem her...

• Post #331862

  I've just received the following email from Selvas BLV. I'm going to CSUN this year, and if one of the new products is a modernized/upgraded SensePlayer, I will be spending a lot of money that I meant to save. Hello valued Selvas BLV community! In preparation for CSUN, Selvas BLV would like to announce that we have a new - well, four new - products coming your way! While specific details will be announced within the next two weeks, we wanted to give you a heads up. Built on w...

• Post #294813

  I now officially have code in wxWidgets! There was a really dumb bug where enabling dark mode for apps would cause your check boxes and radio buttons to show up as just raw buttons to screen readers. I got tired of this, sent in a quick PR, got some feedback from the wxWidgets maintainers, cleaned everything up, and it's now merged! This is the beauty of open source. https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/commit/b5ea9cfe86cedc095adbfd23cff7ea32a2a43a4b

• Post #280024

  If you use Foobar2000 on Windows and are tired of not being able to jump to a specific time in your currently loaded track, this teeny Foobar component I wrote over the weekend will help you out. It gives you a new assignable keyboard shortcut that, when pressed, brings up a dialog asking you to enter a time to jump to. It accepts `H:MM:SS`, `M:SS`, or bare seconds. It also supports decimal fractions (e.g. `1:30.500`). Currently, you have to build it from source and copy the DLL in manually, but...

• Post #152403

  @techsinger@tweesecake.social I can't reproduce the problem here. In and out of input help mode, alt ctrl shift h works. What exactly breaks here?