u/MilessEdgeworth

The deed is done. The first app I've developed 100% myself, sent for review for closed testing. Manually. After 9-5 job, few hours here and there at the time. No AI except first logo version and some minor code help and completion.

At first, it was only for myself, a hobby project, but one user on r/budget discussion encouraged me to publish this, as this is the kind of app he was looking for and wasn't able to find.

I wasn't planing to do it, because there are thousands of budgeting apps out there (and I see posts about new ones at least once a week), but there was a reason I've build it. And I lost my job for few months, so I had some extra time to refine the app.

I wanted a 100% offline solution that doesn't require me to enter expenses manually. The only apps like that I found requires internet connection, logging to supported bank accounts etc. My app works for every bank app without any of this.

My personal version was crude and the biggest challenge was improving it to be usable for normal users - intuitive enough UI, onboarding, instructions, translations etc.

The last 10% that is always hardest to do.

So, the next step after review is to invite friends and family to test the app. I'm not asking for anything here. I just wanted to went after 2 years of spending sizable part of my free time building something instead of playing games (I've bought sequel of my favorite game, death stranding, at day 1 and i still didn't finish it).

So that's it. Wish me luck. The app requires some permissions to work that needed video explanation for review, so it might not be a smooth process.

Found a new job recently and I allowed myself to buy a little gift.

Given recent Sony anti consumer behavior, I've decided I want to own some of my favorite stuff, like death stranding soundtrack in case they pull it off too.

Obv I'm not going to carry around a CD player, so I wanted to share how amazing a process of ripping a music cd is in 2026 on Linux.

You put the cd in, open the file explorer where you see, along with original music files, a generated folders with the music in different formats or as a single file. Then you just copy paste and the files are converted on the fly. It's just magical that somebody thought about that.

Then these flacs are synced to my self hosted cloud that I can stream on my phone using Ultrasonic open source app.

On windows, you can play a CD, but you need additional software to manually convert it.

PS. The last picture shows how in 2026 you plug a CD player of old xD

A lot of tech nad gaming sites still provides RSS.

If you don't know, this is is a pretty old tech, basically a xml file with articles any RSS reader app can read.

Like this open source one:

Feeder

Not only it loads all of your feeds, you can search them, load full articles inside the app and use offline after fetching the data.

You only see what you want (if you follow quality websites).

There are also some social media converter feeds, like a open RSS that converts Mastodon feeds to RSS, or hacker news feed you can program yourself like for seeing only entries with above 100 points:

https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=100

Using this I stopped using my phone as much. I read my news for today and that's it. Not only I use it less, I read more quality stuff.

You can also export your feed list and import it on your

PC with cachyOS or fedora Linux (obv), with newsFlash open source desktop app that is pretty similar.

This post was inspired by a discussion on a Wan show about Google news feed. Replace it with RSS. No slop and 100% privacy.