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This isn't my sub-field of astronomy, but someone needs to give this conference 1000 internet bonus points for the best, most geographically relevant acronym, plus their logo is ADORABLE

uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-cent…

GEESE-ON: Galaxy Evolution and Environment in Southern and Eastern Ontario

a cartoon canada goose standing in front of a circle of stars with a cartoon galaxy over its shoulder, and the acronym GEESE-ON over the top of the circle

Galaxy Evolution and Environment in Southern and Eastern Ontario (GEESE-ON) | Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics | University of Waterloo

An upcoming workshop for Ontario-based astronomers to discuss ongoing and future research in galaxy evolution, hosted by the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics.
uwaterloo.ca

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I'm writing this post here today in hopes to bring some attention to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that's an update to the current situation with Nova Launcher, that I worked for and with for nine years up until August of 2024.

For those that haven't seen the news, Kevin Barry, the founder and developer of Nova has left Branch which in turn means he's now no longer involved with Nova Launcher in any way going forward.

teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.…

For the past year or so Kevin has stated that he was working on the open source version of Nova Launcher so that if/when this time came, it would be out in the open and the community could take it over and contribute to it and have it continue being developed.

However, it seems that Harish Thimmappa and others at Branch had told him to stop working on that effort as they didn't want him to continue doing that for unknown reasons. This is sad news because this was something that former CEO, Alex Austin, had promised both via a contract and publicly that if Kevin were to ever leave Branch, Nova Launcher would become open source. You can find that quote here:

reddit.com/r/Android/comments/…

and another very similar quote with similar conversation here:

reddit.com/r/Android/comments/…

The reason for this post is to try and draw some attention to the folks at Branch, specifically folks like Harish Thimmappa to do the right thing and honor these promises and any writings in the contracts from 2022 and to fully focus on releasing Nova Launcher as an open source app.

The community deserves this more than anything, since that was something that Kevin was very adamant about when he allowed Branch to acquire Nova Launcher back in 2022. Plus, this is just something that Branch should do since it is something that has been promised.

There is currently a petition on Change.org to try and get Branch to do this as well. After only 3 days of it being posted to Change.org, it sits at almost 1,500 signatures, and that's with very little to no press coverage at this time, which is something that would be super useful to bring full attention to this situation. You can find the petition here:

change.org/p/make-nova-launche…

I ask that everyone who sees this post can share it with their followers as I would love to see Branch do the right thing and follow through with their promises that were made back in 2022 when they acquired Nova Launcher and release it fully as an open source app now that Kevin is no longer working for Branch and not involved in Nova Launcher.

I'm going to tag some folks below that I worked with at Branch in hopes of getting this post seen by as many folks there as possible.

#NovaLauncher #Nova #Branch #BranchMetrics #OpenSource #OpenSourceNova #Petition #Android #Apps #Google

A banner image for the Android app Nova Launcher.

Make Nova Launcher Open Source, Let the Community Continue Its Development!

Jack Moreland (Change.org)
#android #google #opensource #apps #petition #novalauncher #nova #branch #branchmetrics #opensourcenova

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Zkrátka a dobře, kombinace Kotlety a Ježkové funguje báječně, text je zábavně zvrhlý, přesto dokáže podnítit posluchače k mnoha úvahám, které nemusejí být úplně plytké. Jestli chcete nějakou radu na závěr, tady je: Kupte si to. naposlech.cz/recenze/hrdinka-z…

Hrdinka z maskulinního světa

Kyberpunková swingers party přináší čtyři delší povídky a v nich očekávatelný děj, jaký si kterýkoli čtenář série s doktorem Koskem nejspíš umí dobře představit.
marek (Audiolibrix s.r.o.)

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JEWS, PLEASE READ THIS
NON-JEWS, PLEASE READ THIS!

Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from ‘traumatic invalidation’ after Oct. 7

"They call it traumatic invalidation, a condition first studied a decade ago for victims of other traumas such as sexual assault who are told it's their fault or they should get over it. For Jews, the same label should apply, the authors found, because it involves what they describe as a stunning mix of silence, denial, blame, gaslighting, whataboutism, and exclusion, such as documenting many cases of Jews being told their grief does not matter because of what's happening in Gaza"

youtube.com/watch?v=JX4dFaIEEw…

Transcript here:

thecjn.ca/news/harvard-experts…

#Podcast #Antisemitism #MentalHealth #Jews #Abuse


Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from 'traumatic invalidation' after Oct. 7

The two therapists' worrying study was published in an academic publication in May 2025.
North Star (The Canadian Jewish News)
#podcast #MentalHealth #antisemitism #abuse #jews
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Ik zat vanochtend net een halve poging te doen om dochterlief naar Linux te helpen. Haar leptop is stuk dus dit is een mooi moment voor verandering.

Maar eigenlijk weet ik niks van Linux. Net zo min als de dochter heb ik veel zin in systeembeheren.

Ik zou wel tips willen welke tweedehands laptop geschikt zou zijn voor een verse Linux-installatie waar een eh, normaal mens ook mee kan werken.

#linux

Dochterlief schreef: "Geen gekke suggestie, maar ik heb altijd het idee gehad dat een linux os het leven van de gebruiker zo’n 15% lastiger maakt en ik heb niet per se aanleg voor troubleshooten. Heb jij dr ervaring mee?" Ik: "Wat moet je er minimaal mee kunnen doen?" Dochter: "Mijn minimale eisen heb ik niet in specs gekwantificeerd voor me maar opzich als zo’n ding 100 tabbladen firefox, een statistiekprogramma en zes worddocumenten tegelijk aankan zit ik goed. Op mn oude kon ik ook spelletjes spelen maar daar heb ik in geen jaren gebruik van gemaakt"
#linux
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Hein Ragas

Ik draai al jaren Ubuntu op mijn desktop, en mijn ervaring is dat de hoeveelheid systeembeheren ongeveer net zo veel is als bij Windows. Met als voordeel bij Ubuntu dat iemand het al voor je heeft uitgezocht en je een paar commando's in de commandline plakt die het in orde maken.

Grootste issue zal de software zijn -- als je Windows-only programma's gebruikt dan is het wel echt pielen geblazen. Maar Firefox (en dus ook alles wat via een browser kan) gaat prima.

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A new version of MapComplete is out on mapcomplete.org

It has:
- a brand new theme was created by @RLin about infrastructure. If you like power lines, pipelines, street cabinets, then this map will be for you: mapcomplete.org/infrastructure
- More support for offline use (and even more is in the pipeline)
- various bugfixes


MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.
mapcomplete.org
@Robin van der Linde 🏳️‍🌈

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1 October @oscl examines open source and data as the foundation for Digital Sovereignty. A great opportunity to engage with the open source community in Luxembourg!

Register here: conference.opensource.lu/

View the agenda here: conference.opensource.lu/agend…

Open Source Conference Luxembourg

conference.opensource.lu
@Open Source Conference LU
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#Mastobada Green Day, Boulevard of broken dreams
« I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one, and I walk alone »
youtu.be/Soa3gO7tL-c

Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams [Official Music Video] [4K Upgrade]

Watch the official music video for Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day from the album American Idiot.🔔 Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com...
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#mastobada

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LibreOffice 25.8 is our new major release – but we're maintaining the previous branch for a few more months. And today we're releasing #LibreOffice 25.2.6: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.6 - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 8 September 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.2.6, the sixth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 25.2 family, available for download at www.libreoffice.org/download [1]. LibreOffice 25.2.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice

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Changes in September temperatures in the #Arctic by decade. The largest warming is co-located with areas of melting sea ice, such as the along the Eurasian coast.

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

Four polar stereographic maps showing Arctic near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of September in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest at the edges of the Arctic Ocean on the Atlantic and Pacific facing marginal seas.

ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1940 to present

ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather for the past 8 decades. Data is available from 1940 onwards. ERA5 replaces the ERA-Interim reanalysis.
doi.org
#arctic

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For your next coffee break listen : @bagder Keynote from #OpenSourceSummit hosted by The Linux Foundation is now available!

Listen to his key note now : youtube.com/watch?v=YEBBPj7pIK…

What will you gain from the keynote speech :

🔹insight into the growing challenges for Open Source maintainers, including lack of funding, questions of sustainability and AI race

🔹how can these challenges can be tackled while developing Open Source solutions

Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...
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#opensourcesummit @daniel:// stenberg://

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Hi everyone,

The NVDA 2025.3 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We encourage all users to download this RC and provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3 release.

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

Full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3r…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #FOSS #Update #News #Accessibility

NVDA logo and text in white on purple with grey sunbursts around the edge.

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3rc1 available for testing

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #screenreader #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #newversion #prerelease

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For number lovers: during the past 31 days, the #IzzyOnDroid repo saw almost 800,000 APK downloads – which roughly corresponds to 18 APKs/minute, or 1 APK every 3 seconds. And that's only from our main server, not counting the mirrors (coming soon™).

Detail lovers can head over to stats.izzyondroid.org/ and dig in 😉

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#izzyondroid

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 8. September, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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#blind #inklusion #make

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My keynote from Open Source Summit Europe 2025 is now up. 13 pretty packed minutes.

youtu.be/YEBBPj7pIKo?si=DBxSCF…


Keynote: Giants, Standing on the Shoulders Of - Daniel Stenberg, Founder of the Curl Project

Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...
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Working on a way to have #curl -w able to output the contents of all headers with a set name even from a redirect-"chain":

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1849…


write-out: make %header{} able to output *all* occurances of a header by bagder · Pull Request #18491 · curl/curl

By appending :all:[separator] to the header name. The [separator] string is output between each header value if there are more than one to output. Test 764 verifies Idea-by: kapsiR on github Ref: #...
GitHub
#curl

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Contact with Europeans in the 19th century first provided the Yapese at Palau with iron tools, that made the cutting and shaping of the stones much easier. Not much later, the Yapese made deals with Europeans to use their ships to transport the stones back to Yap. These arrangements enabled the manufacture of much larger and heavier rai stones, up to 4 meters in diameter, as well of a larger number of them. However, these "modern" stones were less valuable than more ancient ones.


Even stone money suffers from inflation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_ston…


former Micronesian currency of Yap Islands and Palau Islands; national symbol the the Federated States of Micronedia

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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That paired with this would be perfect for me

mokerlink.com/index.php?route=…


MokerLink Store - MokerLink 4-Port 2.5G Web Managed PoE Switch with 2-Port 10G SFP+

4 x 2.5G Ethernet Ports, compliant IEEE802.3bz (2.5G) standard, support 10/100/1000M/2.5G adaptive. 2 x 10G SFP Port(compatible 1G/2.5G Module, not include SFP Module). 45Gbps backplane bandwidth, Port 1-4 support IEEE 802.
www.mokerlink.com

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This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…

#uspol #censorship #bannedbooks


Wat je in Florida niet mag lezen, wordt nu tentoongesteld in de OBA

www.at5.nl
#censorship #uspol #bannedbooks

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in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.

- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment / straps experiments easier
- same ecopak material as my frame bag
- cordura on the bottom for durability

overall: an improvement, attachment to the rack is simpler and faster. could be slightly taller, and maybe all ecopak

side view of the new bag
3/4 view of the new bag
#2

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“Unlike a typical mesh, which stores per-vertex 3D positions, a mescher stores per-vertex 2D screen-space positions and a per-edge depth difference. Whereas differences in depth across edges must sum up to zero as we travel around a standard mesh, this is not necessarily the case for a mescher. It is a mathematical way of describing the perceptual impossibility.” anadodik.github.io/publication…
Rendered computer images of three impossible tori

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects

anadodik.github.io

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Thank you to everyone who attended the World Blindness Summit & WBU General Assembly last week in São Paulo, Brazil. It was an honour for NV Access to attend, and to have NV Access General Manager, James Boreham and NV Access director Emma Bennison present. It was an informative and uplifting week and a chance to meet many new people and hear people's hopes for the future!

#WBUSummit #WBU25 #Blindness #Blind #Accessibility #NVDA #NVAccess #NVDAsr #Brazil #SaoPaulo

Photo of presenters and moderators for the session: "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces". From left to right, Octavio Carreno and Mariana Pinheiro, Marc Workman, Flavio Correia, Simone Freire, James Boreham, and Emma Bennison. All are standing side by side, smiling, in front of the World Blindness Summit backdrop in São Paulo.
Image of the rear part of the room which is quite full with 8 rows of people seated and clapping during the "Digital Access for All – Creating Inclusive Information Spaces"
#Accessibility #blind #nvdasr #brazil #blindness #nvda #nvaccess #wbusummit #wbu25 #saopaulo

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For anyone who thinks Wayland compositors are being overly restrictive by not allowing applications to set absolute positions for their windows, as I did, there are good reasons for this restriction. canonical-mir.readthedocs-host…

Window positions under Wayland

Preamble: Design is all about balance, and the design of graphical user interfaces has a lot of interests to be balanced. In the context of Wayland, the principle interested parties are the designe...
Mir

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Bug Hunter (1990) is one of those rare puzzle platformers written exclusively for the Acorn 32-bit machines.

Whenever I stumble on an Archimedes title, I perk up. These machines—descendants of Acorn’s BBC line—were the first computers powered by ARM CPUs. Think about that: ARM, the chipset now running your phone, your tablet, your Nintendo Switch, even your M-series Mac.

Back in 1990, ARM wasn’t about pocket gadgets. It was pitched as the next big leap in desktop computing. Only problem was the Acorn Archimedes barely left the UK, and outside of classrooms, almost nobody touched one.

That’s a shame, because games like Bug Hunter show what these machines could do. The hero is Hysteron Proteron—a bioengineered soldier gone wrong. A lab mix-up left him a spineless bug-eyed creature who can’t actually fight. So the army threw him on pest control duty.

His gimmick: suckered feet that let him scuttle along floors, ceilings, and walls, and the ability to pick up objects and drop them on unsuspecting insects. Kill them all, move to the next room, repeat. Simple, but clever.

Graphically, it’s impressive for 1990. Crisp sprites, fluid enough movement, and backgrounds that look every bit as solid as what you’d see on the Amiga or Genesis. The SNES wasn’t even out yet, and here’s Acorn pushing visuals in that league.

Sound, though, is the usual British compromise: no music, just effects. Still, compared to the PC speaker squawks of DOS games, those crunchy bug-splat noises were fine.

What makes Bug Hunter stand out isn’t just the gameplay—it’s the personality. One room even has a parody movie poster on the wall: Schwarzenegger in Decorator, with the tagline “They picked the wrong man…” It’s little details like that which make it feel less like a generic extermination game and more like someone’s sly passion project. Which it was.

Ian Richardson, a solo dev at the time, built this thing himself. He’d later go on to Gremlin and Ocean before becoming a respected figure in UK game development. He passed away in 2021, but Bug Hunter remains a testament to his early craft.

The sequel, Bug Hunter in Space, came out the same year, expanding the concept to alien ships and teleports. And Bug Hunter & Moon Dash was even sold together on a single disk, though everyone agrees Moon Dash was the weaker half. Bug Hunter’s the one people remember—the one schoolkids used to sneak onto Archimedes machines in British classrooms.

So if you ever find an Acorn 32-bit, don’t pass this up. Bug Hunter is charming, tough, and a reminder that the ARM revolution didn’t start with iPhones. It started with a bug-eyed mutant wandering the walls on a forgotten British computer.

@videogames

Retro video game screenshot from Bug Hunter. The scene shows a green-walled room with red brick borders. At the top, the title “BUG HUNTER” is displayed in bold red and white text, alongside the player’s score of 652. On the left, there’s a brown shelf stacked with random objects like a beach ball, bottles, and food. Below the shelf, a spiky black creature waits on the floor. A conveyor belt runs across the room, carrying a large insect. Two hanging fluorescent lights dangle from chains above. The back wall features two posters: one blue sign reads “Archimedes — more power to your fingertips,” while another is a parody movie poster showing a muscular figure with sunglasses and a paint roller, with the caption “SCHWARZENEGGER: They picked the wrong man… DECORATOR.”
@Video Games

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FYI trichloroethylene causes Parkinson's

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes | Environmental Working Group ewg.org/news-insights/news/dry…

Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes

If you've ever dry cleaned your clothes (you have, right?), you've likely wondered how the "dry" part happens. And it may even have crossed your mind that it's a chemical process. Of course you'd be right.
Environmental Working Group

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For anyone interested in that AudioScreen add-on we just shared, the link posted by the vOICe was not the right one to download it, you need to follow that one through another post to it, or go direct to: github.com/nvaccess/audioScree…

This is a great example of an add-on where the original author didn't have capacity to continue developing it, and has passed it on to someone else. This is a healthy part of our ecosystem and one which should be encouraged.


GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.

An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen
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NV Access

@GamingWithEars @vick21 @alexhall You can explore an image on a touch screen and get audible feedback (pitch) of it. On the GitHub page - github.com/nvaccess/audioScree… - there is a link to an audio demonstration by Mick Curran "where he demonstrates the various modes, and uses it to explore a map of Australia, a rainbow, the earth from space, a cartoon house, and a sun set."

GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.

An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen
GitHub
@Alex Hall @victor tsaran @James Dean (has moved)
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@kev Thanks Kevan! We did write some tips on filing issues with GitHub here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

Also, have you tried our new "form" based template? The same questions, but in edit boxes you can tab between.

You can find the test templates here: github.com/nvaccess/nvda-issue…

Please note, these are currently only for testing - we are not monitoring issues submitted using those forms.

Once you test the form, please head to this discussion to leave feedback: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…


GitHub

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
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@Kevan

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If you use Claude Coe, you may be interested in the project I have been contributing the #accessibility features to. It's called Opcode. It's basically a GUI version of the Claude Code CLI.
Check out my branch at github.com/vick08/opcode.
There is an outstanding PR against the main repo, but I am not sure when the author decides to incorporate my changes. There are other 40 PRs in the queue! :)
Enjoy!

GitHub - vick08/opcode: A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.

A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more. - vick08/opcode
GitHub
#Accessibility

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