i made some small portable windows apps and put them up for free. CC0 - public domain, do whatever you want with them. No accounts, no telemetry, no installers.
- Core Cooldown - break timer
- Whisper Voice - local speech-to-text
- TypoGenie - Markdown to Word docs
- TutorialVault - video tutorial organizer
- OpenPylon - local Kanban board
- Vesper - distraction-free Markdown reader
Source on my self-hosted Gitea.
Core Cooldown v0.2.0 is out - and it's still completely free. This update brings the whole UI up to WCAG 2.2 Level AAA accessibility.
7:1 contrast, 44px hit areas, full keyboard nav, WAI-ARIA 1.2 screen reader support, Windows High Contrast, and reduced-motion support. 42 fixes across 18 components.
A break timer meant to prevent RSI should work for everyone. Portable, no installer, CC0 public domain.
Whisper Voice also got a big accessibility update! The whole UI now meets WCAG 2.2 Level AAA - 7:1+ contrast, full keyboard nav, screen reader roles on every component, reduced motion support, and I/O marks on toggles so nothing relies on color alone.
Still free, still portable, still completely local. Your voice never leaves your machine.
TypoGenie v1.1.0 is out. The app and its document output now target WCAG 2.2 Level AAA.
Full keyboard nav, screen reader support, native dialog modals, high contrast and reduced motion support. All color pairs across 165+ templates auto-validated for AAA contrast.
The Word docs it generates are also more accessible - tagged table headers, heading structure, document metadata.
Free, portable, CC0.
TutorialVault v1.1.0 - completely rewritten from Python to Rust + TypeScript on Tauri v2. Now targets WCAG 2.2 AAA - full keyboard nav, screen reader support, 44px touch targets, 7:1 contrast, reduced motion, and Windows High Contrast support.
It's a local video tutorial library manager with progress tracking, subtitle support, per-video notes, and drag-and-drop playlists. Free, portable, CC0.
OpenPylon v1.1.0 - accessibility update. The whole UI now targets WCAG 2.2 AAA. 7:1 contrast, 3px dual-ring focus indicators, ARIA live regions, dialog focus trapping, skip nav, keyboard-accessible context menus, high contrast mode, and 8-second toasts with pause and dismiss.
It's a local-first Kanban board for Windows with markdown cards, version history, and a command palette. Free, portable, CC0.
Vesper v1.1.0 - accessibility and light theme update. Full keyboard nav, ARIA landmarks, focus traps in modals, skip link, aria-live status messages, reduced motion support, and AAA contrast across both the new light and dark themes.
Also added content zoom and width spinners as non-gesture alternatives to scroll shortcuts.
It's a distraction-free Markdown reader for Windows. Free, portable, CC0.
Made a new thing. Driftwood - an AppImage manager for Linux. Browse 2,000+ apps, one-click install, updates, vulnerability scanning, and desktop menu integration. No root, no accounts, no telemetry.
Built with Rust and GTK 4, runs in userspace, ships as an AppImage itself. Free, CC0 public domain, WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible.
If you use AppImages and want something nicer than the terminal for managing them, give it a look.
New app. Outlay - a personal finance app for Linux. Track what you spend, set budgets, manage subscriptions, and see where your money goes. Everything lives in one file on your machine. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
It's a native GTK 4 app so it fits right in on a GNOME desktop. I put a lot of work into making it look and feel nice.
Free, CC0 public domain. No subscription to track your subscriptions.
New app. PixStrip - batch image processor for Linux. Resize, convert, compress, strip metadata, watermark, and rename. A step-by-step wizard walks you through everything so you don't need to know what you're doing to get good results.
Full CLI for scripting. Fediverse resize presets for Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy built in.
Rust + GTK 4, native on GNOME. WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible. Free, CC0 public domain. Runs locally.
New app. Nomina - a modern bulk file renamer for Windows. Stack rename rules into a pipeline, preview everything live & undo anything, even across sessions. 18 rename operations including regex, EXIF dates, case conversion, and sequential numbering.
Most tools like this look like they haven't been updated since 2004. This one doesn't.
Portable, no installer. WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible. Free, CC0 public domain. No telemetry.
New app. EchoBoard - a self-hosted feedback platform. Your community can submit ideas, report bugs, and vote without ever creating an account. No email, no sign-up wall, no tracking. Just show up and participate.
Self-host with Docker. Plugin system, roadmap, changelog, webhooks. WCAG 2.2 AAA accessible. Free, CC0 public domain. Privacy by design.
https://apps.lashman.live/echoboard/
Running it for real for my own apps here, not a demo:
https://echoboard.lashman.live
@ansiblegames yes, absolutely! :)
@oscherler mostly just really really bored :P haha
but thank you! :)
@lashman out of curiosity, why did you choose CC0 license for these projects? the Creative Commons family of licenses are more targeted at "content" and not code.
CC0-1.0 specifically is not considered "Free and Open Source" by some lawyers due to some of its limitations (for example, it is not an allowed license for "code" in Fedora Linux, it is only allowed for "content")
@lashman @decathorpe Check The Unlicense. It’s like CC0 (public domain) but for code. It’s what the popular yt-dlp (and youtube-dl before it) uses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlicense
Check the “See also” at the bottom for other popular alternatives.
@leadore no, not at all, just a tonne of CSS
but you can check out the gitea page for it directly - should probably fare better: https://git.lashman.live/lashman/driftwood
sorry again
@lashman @leadore It seems to be the JS, not the CSS directly? If I load the site with NoScript or uBO in strict mode which blocks all JS scripts, the page is fluid and uses 63MB of RAM, but with JS enabled it does make things worse
I'm not sure what causes that, probably the 3D animated panes when you hover over them. But I found a different issue:
Consider modifying the HERO - orchestrated entrance section in /driftwood/script.js for the page, because if I have esm.sh blocked, it'll set everything to opacity 0, add a listener to whatever framer-motion or motion includes
I think it's the !animate or some other check you've put in place, because with esm.sh blocked it still logs to the console that motion.dev was loaded successfully, despite it being blocked. It's loading motion/*esm from JSdelivr, but there are other components that appear to be loaded via esm.sh, like framer-motion, motion-utils and motion-dom.
It also loads motion/index.mjs from unpkg as a fallback if esm.sh and jsdeliver are blocked 😄
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