SoftwareOct 27MeshLive, an open-source Android app, livestreams video phone to phone over Bluetooth with no internet, each phone passing it on about 20 metres
SoftwareOct 27Charlie Gerard's Overgrown, a Chrome extension, grows vines over tabs you ignore, and past 5% overgrowth you can't click the page until you hack them back with a machete, chainsaw or flamethrower
SoftwareOct 27Kristian Duske Built TrenchBroom So He Could Make Quake Maps Again. He Never Made Another One.
SoftwareOct 26A Systems Academic Called Marc Brooker's Garbage-Collection Death Spiral a Fantasy. He Animated Real etcd Traces Stuck in It.
SoftwareOct 26Debut rebuilds macOS Command-Tab around Spaces, and lets you switch desktops without the slide
SoftwareOct 26Goose, a Programming Language With No Heap, Was Designed by FlatBuffers' Creator and Built by Claude Fable
SoftwareOct 25HatchZip extracts archives from the end and cuts off each finished part, so a 180 GB game unpacks on a nearly full disk
SoftwareOct 25Bottles creator Mirko Brombin's Raven plays the Windows kernel on Linux, so Windows installers run as they are
SoftwareOct 25Snapintosh boots Apple's own macOS 27 kernel on an ASUS Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop, with a Metal driver written from scratch
SoftwareOct 25ZacOS 9 redraws the whole Mac OS 9 desktop for Debian Linux, with a SheepShaver for the real classic apps
SoftwareOct 25A Line-by-Line C# Port of VLC's Gaussian Blur Ran 23% Slower Than the C, Then Both Got 30 Times Faster
SoftwareOct 24Death Plan Switch emails solo devs once a week, and after 144 hours of silence it sends their pre-written messages
SoftwareOct 23Concat, a free open-source CapCut replacement, ships an MCP server so Claude can cut your video on your own machine
SoftwareOct 23OnKey learns a song's melody from one play in Spotify or YouTube, then scores your singing on a Mac
SoftwareOct 23HLS Radio Converter turns a Raspberry Pi into the MP3 translator old Frontier Silicon Wi-Fi radios need
SoftwareOct 22Somebody got Android apps running on a Mac with no emulator, and they show up in the Dock
SoftwareOct 22The leap second is over, and the world's clocks may now drift up to an hour from the sky
SoftwareOct 16Intel documented a CPU instruction its own chip refuses to run, then dropped it from the manual
