u/Surreal_Wit

Every time friends came over to watch something, we'd end up fighting over speaker volume — too loud for the neighbors, too quiet to hear from the couch, and using one pair of headphones meant everyone else was left out.

Windows only lets you play audio to one output device at a time, so I built PairUp — it captures whatever's playing on your PC and streams it to every Bluetooth headphone, wired headset, and speaker you connect, simultaneously and in sync. Everyone gets their own volume, their own delay correction for laggy Bluetooth codecs, even their own EQ.

A few things:

• No virtual audio driver. Every other tool I found for this needed Voicemeeter or a virtual cable setup. PairUp just listens to your current default device — nothing to configure, nothing that breaks your normal audio setup.
• Guests can control their own volume from their phone. Scan a QR code, get a PIN, and adjust your own headphones' volume/EQ from a simple web page — no app install.
• Tap-to-sync calibration. Instead of guessing at a delay slider, it plays a click track and you tap along — it works out your headphones' actual lag automatically.

It's free, open source (MIT), and there's a proper installer (no admin rights needed). Built solo, so bug reports/feature requests genuinely welcome.

• Landing page / screenshots: https://jamimmehdi.github.io/pair-up-audio/
• GitHub: https://github.com/jamimmehdi/pair-up-audio

Happy to answer questions about how the audio sync works if anyone's curious — it was the most interesting part to get right.

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I run a free service which has a map on the website. I've got a location auto complete powered by MapBox. At my current scale, I'm spending $150/mo on that location search box.

It looks like long term, hosting a Photon server myself might be the best option as I keep scaling, but that's going to cost me $300/mo on Hetzner plus require management.

In the meantime, any suggestions for cheaper location autocomplete services?

So I've been running a WP agency since 2003. Love it. I am, however, learning how to create sites using Claude with Supabase. Let me tell you all something, this is nothing....nothing a client's ever going to learn or figure out. If a client wants an instant site, that's Wix/Square which have been around for more than a decade.

But to think AI is going to harm WP, as in client using AI to create their own sites, laughably false. If you don't know the right prompts, don't use the right tool, oh and pay for tokens you're nowhere - not even talking deploying the site live along with a database to manage things like contact form submissions and bookings.

The biggest issue? A client's ability to go in an edit anything themselves, which will always favor WP. Other issue? No plugin environment.

Paste any public URL and it opens the page in Chrome, explores its interactions, then checks the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for things that browsers can now handle natively.

It catches patterns such as custom accordions, popovers, dialogs, scroll reveals, JavaScript sticky elements, and older CSS workarounds.

The report includes the code it found, a proposed replacement, browser support, what to verify before changing anything, and a small example towards a codepen to implement it.

It scans ONE page, so it is not a performance, accessibility, security, or full-site audit.

It is free (10 url/day/human) and requires no account.

Don't hesitate to tell me if you find a bug, an UI/UX issue, or any other thing you find weird

Maybe I am just getting old, but I miss when software solved one problem really well and then got out of the way.

These days, even many open source and freemium apps feel like they are trying to become all in one platforms. The work behind them is impressive, but I often end up using only a small fraction of the features. It feels like many applications are becoming platforms instead of tools.

I still have a soft spot for software like Winamp, VLC, IrfanView, Notepad++, 7-Zip, and SumatraPDF. They were fast, focused, and never felt like they were asking for my attention.

Maybe expectations have simply changed, but I wonder if there is still a place for small, focused software that does one thing really well.

What older application (released before at least 20years) do you still use today, and what keeps you coming back to it?

ok so this happened to me with Trello a while back, remember when it was just clean simple boards and now it's got like 15 power-ups shoved in your face and half the UI feels like an upsell screen

anyway made me think about how many apps do this. you use something for years, it's perfect, then one update later it's unrecognizable and somehow worse even though it has "more features"

what's yours? bonus points if you remember the exact version/update where it went downhill

I’m looking or an online free pdf editor that I can edit a resume with. Reading it out doesn’t seem like a big ask. But let’s click export and oh shit 20-70 dollar subscription fee. Suck my dick imma just get a repack of adobe ffs. How do you even justify a price like that? Server space don’t cost that much and neither does maintaining a fuckass domain fame like “free pdfeditor.com”. Sorry about the rant but I just used around 12 free pdf editors in the past hour that said fuck you pays us for ur shit last minute.

Anyone know of any beautiful e-commerce sites?

It may look nice on a video or a presentation but when you go to actual website UX is just terrible. I am aware many of those websites are literally works of art made by talented people and I don't want to discredit their effort but that's the reality.

I’ve become really tired of the bloat with Elementor. The speed of building with Claude Code is making Elementor feel way less efficient, especially for clients who don’t really need or want the drag and drop / full edit control on their site. I feel like if Elementor doesn’t adapt to AI (beyond their near useless built in AI) page builders are going to get phased out almost entirely by AI. This is just the next thing.

I get it that Elementor and page builders get a shit ton of hate here. I know. Main reason we have used it for years is speed and clients feeling comfortable and able to update fully on their own without code if needed. Now the speed is not really an edge anymore.

I’ve dabbled a bit with other CMS platforms like Sanity. Our agency is so WordPress focused though that it would be a really hard pivot to move to a new CMS entirely.

Looking for advice on any setups for WordPress FSE and Claude Code. Is it best to just build off Twenty Twenty Five, or use another theme like Kadence?
I’ll admit I’ve never been a huge fan of Gutenberg / the block editor, it’s always felt clunky. Is there a good middle ground to start with? It’s okay if it’s not fully friendly to non devs, but non dev users should still be able to add new blocks/sections and edit content without entirely guessing what it’ll look like on the front end.

We typically use Hello Elementor as our theme for Elementor builds, so we’re looking for something similarly reliable for whatever we end up building with going forward.

I feel like losing some of the freedom to edit quickly or build without code is much less of a loss compared to the time and efficiency gained from having Claude Code do the majority of the driving when it comes to creating blocks and patterns.
What is everyone using?

Anyone else coming from Elementor who can relate and has had a good experience making the change?

TIA!

I know over the years, I've scoffed at quite a few things. SPAs. TypeScript. Tailwind. Serverless. AI coding assistants.

Most of the huge trends in web development went through a phase where people swore they were overhyped.

Some deserved the criticism. Some evolved and became genuinely useful.

Lately I'm seeing similar debates around AI agents and agent tooling. Claude Code, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, Lyzr(Control Plane) and a bunch of newer projects all seem to be pushing toward a different way of building software. Maybe we're still early, maybe most of it won't matter, but it does remind me of how people talked about TypeScript or serverless a few years ago.

What's something being dismissed today that you think will become a normal part of every developer's workflow in the next 3-5 years?

Hi,

first of all, thanks for this sub and all the information I got, which sometimes helped and or entertained me.

This time, I need some advice about my webprojects and the way how they are hosted. Everything started very small and as time goes on, I faced with the following setup:

• 1 vServer (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 200GB SSD, Debian 11)
• 8 Webprojects (php, nodejs, ruby | postgresql, mariadb, mongodb, sqlite) ; 3 of which are public available websites; 5 have a limited user pool
• nginx as reverse proxy
• daily backup (with transfer to different server) of databases and uploaded files

As EOL of Debian 11 approaches, for a upgrade to Debian 13 my hoster recommends me to buy a new Hosting Solution and install everything from scratch.

>‘If your server is on an OS that is no longer supported, we strongly recommend you take this opportunity to open a new server with the latest OS and proactively migrate yourself to the new server.

I’m concerned having multiple projects running on just one machine, so this is a good opportunity to think about the way everything is hosted. I was thinking about splitting up projects and having at least two vServers. one for public available sites and one for intern projects.

I think one disadvantage will be the multiple setup expense.

What experiences do you have? Is one server just fine?

Thanks for any information and or advice!
Luc

^(Note: I know containerization, e.g.: docker is a thing, but I willingly tried to avoid it; I told myself, I want to be in control of everything, but basically its about not adapting to new tech. So for everyone just writing, “do docker”, please explain why and outlining a possible solution.)

For me it's newer Outlook, Word, and Excel. They feel worse than the older versions, slower, with features buried or missing, and a lot more pushed toward cloud defaults instead of just working the way they used to. And Windows 11 is a total disaster. Curious what other apps or sites people feel got worse after an update or redesign.

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For the first time in awhile I felt like Claude was ahead of Codex again..

Hello, I'm looking for a software that would auto put files into a folder of the same name.