I’ve been working on Tabularis, an open-source desktop database client for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite.

It’s meant to be two things at once: a comfortable everyday SQL app (editor, notebooks, charts, visual tools) and a safe bridge for AI agents that want to read your schema or run queries, without you having to paste credentials into a chat.

Free, open source, runs locally. Would love your thoughts.

→ https://github.com/TabularisDB/tabularis

→ https://tabularis.dev

The repository is growing, and I'd like to get more of the community involved.

If you know a privacy-focused, open-source, self-hostable, or otherwise interesting tool that deserves to be listed, suggest it or contribute directly.

If you find the directory useful, a ⭐ on GitHub also helps it reach more people and attract contributors.

https://github.com/abdomk1998/awesome-digital-escape-tools

What should we add next?

PMs, designers, and backend engineers on our team often needed to check a staging build. Sometimes they wanted to verify a layout, sometimes reproduce a bug, or just confirm that an API change behaved the way they expected.

Sending the build wasn't the hard part.

Actually running it was.

Most people didn't have Xcode or Android Studio set up, and asking them to install everything just to check one build wasn't realistic. The alternative was usually asking a mobile developer to install the app or share their screen, which happened more often than we'd have liked.

We looked at services like Appetize and BrowserStack, but they didn't really fit how we work. We already had Macs available internally, and we weren't comfortable uploading app binaries to an external service just so teammates could review a staging build.

So I started building an open-source tool that runs iOS simulators and Android emulators on a Mac and streams them to the browser.

The idea wasn't to replace TestFlight or Appetize. I just wanted an easier way for teammates to review staging builds without needing a mobile development setup.

It's still early (v0.x), but building it has taken me into a lot of areas I hadn't worked on before—video streaming, low-latency input forwarding, simulator orchestration, and React Native QA workflows.

I'm curious how other React Native teams handle this.

How do non-mobile developers on your team review staging builds?

• TestFlight?
• Internal APKs?
• BrowserStack or Appetize?
• Something else?

If you're interested, here's the project:

https://github.com/jo-duchan/tapflow

Every time tracker wants an account, a subscription and your data on someone else's server. I just wanted: click start, click stop, and a PDF at the end of the month. So I built my own.

>Live demo: https://winnicodes.github.io/pocketwatch/
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GitHub: https://github.com/winnicodes/pocketwatch

Platform: Docker (Linux, Windows, NAS, Raspberry Pi):

• One-click start/stop, live timer
• PDF and CSV export
• Fully self-hosted - no account, no cloud, no tracking

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I know Fastfetch already does the job really well, so I wasn't planning to make another fetch tool at first.

I just wanted to see if I could build one myself, from the ground up, without relying on external dependencies.

That turned into nourfetch.

It's written entirely in Rust, with zero external dependencies. The system information is collected using Rust's standard library and native OS APIs.

It's currently around 500KB , starts in under 5ms, and works on Windows, Linux and macOS.

It can show CPU, GPU, VRAM, RAM, disks, battery, display, OS information and more. I also added different layouts, logos, themes and gradients because I wanted it to actually look nice in the terminal.

What matters most to me is that the whole thing is open source. You can look through the code, build it yourself, change whatever you want, or just tell me what I got wrong.

I'm not saying it's going to replace Fastfetch , Fastfetch is way more mature.

But if you use Fastfetch or Neofetch, I'd really like you to try this one and tell me how it compares on your machine.

If you have a minute, give it a shot:

GitHub: https://github.com/itsraynour/nourfetch

Demo: https://itsraynour.github.io/nourfetch/

And if you like it, a star would honestly mean a lot

I kept running into the same problem: screenshots often contain information you didn't realize you were sharing.

An API key. An email address. A phone number. A password field. Customer information.

Usually, you take the screenshot first and then manually look for things to hide.

I built Blackbar to reverse that workflow.

It reads the page before capturing it and automatically detects and redacts sensitive-looking information. The screenshot you get is already the safer version.

The part I cared most about was privacy.

Blackbar runs entirely on the device. It declares connect-src 'none', so Chrome itself blocks the extension from making network connections. It still works with Wi-Fi turned off.

It's also open source, has no account requirement, and is free.

I'd genuinely like feedback from other Chrome extension users/builders, especially on:

• detection accuracy
• false positives/negatives
• the capture workflow
• anything that would make you hesitate to trust it

Chrome Web Store Link

Source

Hey Folks I made the following website full of small tools to use free of charge, no ads , no signups and all source code is available on github.

plus, it created without usign any dependency or ...

Let me know what do you think?

https://jsglobe.com/

https://github.com/samalstudios/jsglobe

I'm a builder who got tired of paying monthly for polished demo video tools and every tool I tried either didn't quite fit my workflow or was missing something I needed, like draw-on-screen annotations: a pen, a highlighter, and a way to point directly at what I'm talking about.

So I built Capptivo for myself. Record on macOS, Windows, or Linux, then polish your videos in the editor: follow-cursor zoom, click-based auto-zooms, editor presets, face-cam, on-device captions, and draw-on-screen annotations with pens, highlighters, and shapes that you can place over your screen while recording to highlight exactly what matters.

Create stunning screen recordings in seconds, not hours your demos almost make themselves.

Capptivo isn't a clone of Screen Studio or Cursorful. Every feature was built around my own workflow and the problems I faced. I'm now open-sourcing it under the MIT License so anyone can use it, improve it, customize it, or build on top of it without restrictions. No more paying $29/month just to ship a clean product video.

It's still early, and I'm building it mostly solo, so I'd genuinely love your honest feedback. What would make this more useful for your demos? What am I missing compared to the tools you already use?

Happy to answer any questions, and contributions are always welcome.

Try it now for free : capptivo.com
Leave a star on GitHub: https://github.com/SECHAK-AG/capptivo

Favnyr is a portable file browser for Windows and Linux that runs entirely offline, with no account, telemetry, update checks, or background services.

It supports multiple panels and tabs, saved workspaces, favourites, custom commands, file previews, filtering, drag-and-drop, and more. It's written in Rust and distributed as a single executable with no installer or administrator rights required.

The project is open source under GPLv3+.

The developer also reached out to share the project and has been transparent about using AI assistance during development while manually reviewing and testing changes on both Windows and Linux.

GitHub: https://github.com/GlitchAwakened/Favnyr

Mod Note : The developer has renamed the project from Ranger to Favnyr to avoid confusion.

Also, the original Reddit post title cannot be changed, so it will still show the old name Ranger in the title.

I wanted to share a project I'm working on: git-calendar.org - a privacy-focused calendar that uses a standard Git repository as storage instead of relying on a traditional backend server. It lets users choose where their data is stored. No more google/apple/microslop owning your schedule.

Key features:

• Git-powered - calendar data live in plain Git repo (full history, easy backups, works offline)
• No central server or backend - the client talks directly to any Git remote (GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg...)
• End-to-end encryption so you can host it on untrusted providers
• Slick web UI with keyboard shortcuts and more
• iCalendar compatibility so it's easy to switch

Core is written in Go (compiled to WASM for the web).
The web client uses Vue.js.
It's ready for Android and IOS apps. Feel free to build one!

Try it: https://git-calendar.org
Source: https://github.com/git-calendar

Would love feedback from people who care about Git-based tools and data ownership. Also you can support the project with a star and follow on GitHub, to let me know I should continue working on it!

Hey, I’m the developer of PC Recap.

Most computer-usage trackers answer, “How productive was I?” I wanted something that answered, “What did this part of my life on my PC actually look like?”

PC Recap records active application usage and turns it into visual Today, Week, Month, Year, All-Time, Decade, and On This Day recaps.

Version 1.1 is the biggest update so far:

• Day Replay lets you scrub through a recorded day
• Recap Studio creates stories for years, seasons, decades, or custom dates
• Automatic eras detect phases like a gaming era or coding era
• Memory Pins let you attach your own context to a period
• Historical Recovery can find limited pre-installation clues without pretending they are exact usage time
• ActivityWatch and ManicTime sessions can be imported
• Search, comparisons, time formatting, chart tooltips, and app detection are much clearer
• Tracking is more resilient to crashes, restarts, pauses, and closing the window

PC Recap is now open source under GPL v3. Everything is stored locally in SQLite. There is no account, desktop telemetry, cloud activity storage, or external AI API. A new archive starts empty, with no fake statistics.

ActivityWatch is still the stronger choice if you need Linux/macOS support, browser extensions, editor plugins, or an extensible tracking ecosystem. PC Recap is aimed at a different experience: less productivity dashboard, more personal digital time capsule. It can also import ActivityWatch sessions if you want to use both.

PC Recap is currently a Windows 10/11 x64 beta. The installer is unsigned, so Windows may display a SmartScreen warning.

Website: https://pcrecap.online
Source: https://github.com/TheAgencyMGE/pc-recap
Version 1.1: https://github.com/TheAgencyMGE/pc-recap/releases/tag/v1.1.0

I’d especially appreciate feedback on tracking accuracy, the new Day Replay, and whether the recaps become interesting after a few days of real use.