I switched to an open-source notes app for 2 weeks, and I wish I had done it sooner

Looking for an open-source notes app you'll actually enjoy using? I recently tried Notesnook, and I've been pleasantly ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features

Plummer is the man who claims to have created some major Windows features, including the original Task Manager application. Now, the YouTuber and retired developer shared ...

Want Notepad to be like it was in the Windows XP era? Meet TinyRetroPad

Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.
GitHub

Speech To Speech: Build voice agents with open-source models

This starts an OpenAI Realtime-compatible server at ws://localhost:8765/v1/realtime using Parakeet TDT for local STT, an OpenAI-compatible LLM, and Qwen3-TTS for ...