Reposted by Joe FinneyMorten Nielsen @dotmorten.xaml.dev · 20hWindows App SDK 2.5.4-experimental just landed: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... New controls: TableView, Charting, more Inking, and programmatic data templates and theme resource bindingslearn.microsoft.comWindows App SDK 2.0 release notes - Windows appsRelease notes for Windows App SDK 2.0 across the Stable, Preview, and Experimental channels, with feature highlights, bug fixes, and API changes. 161
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 27/09/2026If @blowdart.me is going to make a fix the least I can do is make a minor release with the fix and some more polish! github.com/TheJoeFin/traysky/releas… #systrayapp #windev #windows 100
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 25/09/2026My Snapdragon Surface Laptop NPU is currently cookin’ at a nice 100% utilization running Qwen 3.8 locally via Geniex Thanks to @bdsams.com for the tip! 110
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 25/09/2026Release 1.0 of TraySky is out! It is a Bluesky app for Windows that lives in your tray so you can check your feed without using a half a gig of RAM and designed to be small and disappear! github.com/TheJoeFin/traysky/releas… #windev #indiedev #windows #trayapp 061
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 24/09/2026New app in progress! Again much thanks to @dotmorten.xaml.dev 140
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 22/09/2026Guess what Hendrik had to say about Traydio (my systray radio app). He said "Very easy to use" if you want a 'very easy to use' radio app that respects your computers resources, then you will appreciate Traydio apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nxt4tgjv… #windev 010
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 21/09/2026The first beta of Traysky has been released. Save your ram, don't stop posting! github.com/TheJoeFin/traysky/releas… #windev #nativeApps #SysTrayApp #IndieDev 142
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 21/09/2026I love posting and not spending half a gig of ram to do it 😊 #nativeApps #windev 000
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 20/09/2026built with bluesky.idunno.dev from @blowdart.mebluesky.idunno.devGet started | idunno.Bluesky Documentation 110
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 20/09/2026Hello from Traysky! testing the compose box with a #hashtag and a link thejoefin.com 100
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 19/09/2026Just released a beta of Text Grab which brings a few new features and lots of small improvements! github.com/TheJoeFin/Te... #indieDev #WinDev #Productivitygithub.comRelease v4.16.0 Beta 1 · TheJoeFin/Text-GrabAudio transcription Live from microphone or system audio Drop an audio file onto the Edit Text Window to transcribe Improved local AI capabilities More robust translation and summarization Bett... 081
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 17/09/2026Playing the latest Sylvan Esso album via local mp3 files I bought and streaming to my Sonos all with Traydio! I love building small delightful software! github.com/TheJoeFin/Tr... #IndieDev #OpenSource #WinDevgithub.comGitHub - TheJoeFin/Traydio: A tiny simple, elegant, internet radio player for Windows which lives completely in the tray.A tiny simple, elegant, internet radio player for Windows which lives completely in the tray. - TheJoeFin/Traydio 030
Reposted by Joe FinneyMorten Nielsen @dotmorten.xaml.dev · 15/09/2026Use #WinUI 3 and got two minutes? Please share your experience with the Microsoft.UI.Xaml/WinUI repository: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...forms.cloud.microsoftMicrosoft Forms 045
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 15/09/2026I’m loving the revolutionary new Siri waitlist feature of iOS27! 000
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 13/09/2026Testing Traydio with improvements to the Track metadata handling and better album art smarts! Also some hidden new features 🤫 github.com/TheJoeFin/Tr... #Indiedev #WinDev #OpenSourcegithub.comRelease v2.1 Metadata and Album art · TheJoeFin/TraydioFixed the issue with the VLC engine not parsing the metadata correctly More robust album art pulling and displaying New option for debugging A few new hard to find features 060
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 12/09/2026One more star, you could be the 5Kth stargazer!!! github.com/TheJoeFin/Te... 000
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 10/09/2026What is the point of having awesome installer tech if you don't use it for one of the most key experiences (email) on your platform? Is there something broken with MSIX that the Outlook team cannot use it? I never see messages like this on any of the electron apps I use. It is hard to understand. 130
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 06/09/2026In my experience, big long running tasks given to AI agents do not pan out. They require so much more guidance. Here is an example of asking GPT-6 Astra to build a MAUI version of my WinUI app, Simple QR Code Maker. For the record it had full source reference and WinUI and MAUI Skills... results: 110
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 05/09/2026Tradio is an app designed to be small and provide background music without taking a gig of ram. v2 just released today and has a ton of polish making the app a great tool for every Windows user. github.com/TheJoeFin/Tr... #indiedev #windev #windows 080
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 04/09/2026Traydio 2.0 will be rolling out shortly! Such a great little internet radio player that I use every day! 010
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 31/08/2026Getting ready to release the latest Outfit update with graphs! I don’t looking at graphs to be the quickest way of deciding when to go run. How do you choose when to go out for a run or ride? Check it out here: outfitapp.co/get #fitness #outfit #indiedev #reactnative 060
Reposted by Joe FinneyAlvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 31/08/2026Microsoft Moves WinUI/WASDK Development to GitHub www.thurrott.com/dev/340841/m... #windowsdev #microsoft #winui #windowsappsdk #github #ossthurrott.comMicrosoft Moves WinUI/WASDK Development to GitHubAs part of a years-long effort to open up its Windows developer technologies, Microsoft has moved WinUI development to GitHub. 052
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 29/08/2026Traydio (previous Trdo) v2 release candidate is on GitHub! If you like to stream internet radio while you work you will love this app! Try the RC test it out an please give feedback! github.com/TheJoeFin/Tr... #WinDev #Windows #IndieDev #Productivity #OpenSourcegithub.comRelease v2.0 Release Candidate! · TheJoeFin/TrdoThis is the release candidate for v2 of Traydio! updates since 2.0.5 beta. Translated into many languages! Added a universal delay mechanism for track changes Added animations fixed window positi... 070
Reposted by Joe FinneyMorten Nielsen @dotmorten.xaml.dev · 28/08/2026WinUI is finally truly open sourced! github.com/microsoft/mi... 063
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 25/08/2026New WinAppSDK experimental with Inking support!! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...learn.microsoft.comWindows App SDK 2.0 release notes - Windows appsRelease notes for Windows App SDK 2.0 across the Stable, Preview, and Experimental channels, with feature highlights, bug fixes, and API changes. 021
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 23/08/2026Weezer’s gold album is excellent! Really enjoying it so far 000
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 22/08/2026I gave up on using Winget to install Claude Code. The product changes too fast and the approval process can take more than a week. Which can seriously impact my experience with CC. 🤷♂️ 000
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 20/08/2026What is the best approach to set up a coding agent to discover the APIs of a Nuget package? I bet @dotmorten.xaml.dev has an opinion on this 110
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 20/08/2026Why can MS Copilot not see my tasks in MS To Do? Is that app getting killed? Can’t access when testing in M365 work account either. 🤔 010
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 19/08/2026This is an amazing video talking about the real scary parts of ad tracking. People think phones are listening... but really they are buying your credit card purchases, watching your network traffic, and tracking your location. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0-8...youtube.comWhy we're so sure our phones are listeningYouTube video by Christophe 000
Reposted by Joe FinneyAlvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 19/08/2026Announcing AppxManifest IntelliSense Support in the WinApp VS Code Extension devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef-window... #windowsdev #vscode #winapp #appxmanifest #appdev #xaml #csharp #cpp #dotnet #windevdevblogs.microsoft.comAnnouncing AppxManifest IntelliSense Support in the WinApp VS Code Extension - #ifdef WindowsEnhance your app development with AppxManifest IntelliSense in the WinApp VS Code extension. Get started today! 011
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 19/08/2026I am loving the incremental updates that have been coming to the WinApp CLI! That team just needs to keep cooking! 020
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 18/08/2026Are you a dev working with clipboard content on Windows? Well you might find Clipboard Inspector to be a useful tool, I did! github.com/TheJoeFin/cl... #WinDev #OpenSource #IndieDev #Developer #Productivitygithub.comGitHub - TheJoeFin/clipboard-inspector: A Windows app for inspecting the content of your clipboardA Windows app for inspecting the content of your clipboard - TheJoeFin/clipboard-inspector 060
Reposted by Joe FinneyJen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We've been working on adding more control over what shows in the File Explorer context menu - I hope you like it 😊 blogs.windows.com/windows-insi... 9905
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 17/08/2026Great hire! I am looking forward to WinAppSDK getting even better and the DX to improve as well! 060
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 17/08/2026If you like, listening to Internet radio on your PC while you work you’ll love my app Traydio (previously Trdo)! The 2.0 beta is coming along. It really has become one of my favorite apps that I use every day! #WinDev #IndieDev #OpenSource 150
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 15/08/2026I get why Anthropic set auto-mode to be default. I'm trying out MAI-Code-1.1-Flash in Visual Studio 2026 and gave it a simple prompt and the first command it tried to run 'Get-ChildItem' ... pipe to 'Select-String' and I had to give approval. That is how approval fatigue happens 000
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 12/08/2026It is insane how quickly Text Grab can take a jpeg of a table and get it into Excel. apps.microsoft.com/store/detail... #Productivity #OCR #Data #WinApp #WindowsApps #OpenSource #IndieDev 091
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 11/08/2026What are people saying about Trdo (Soon to be Traydio)? "Great Free Radio App. Love the simplicity and how it "gets out of the way". Very easy to add radio stations as well." -Andrew apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nxt4... #WinDev #WindowsApp #IndieDev #FOSS #OpenSourceapps.microsoft.comTrdo (Soon to be Traydio) - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft StoreYour favorite radio stations, always just a click away. Remember the simplicity of your car radio? A handful of preset buttons, each one perfectly tuned to your favorite stations. News on 1, classic ... 020
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 08/08/2026Real accurate gears for Figma! It is not too often that my mechanical engineering experience and my attention to design details overlap, but it finally happened in the best way! I've released a Figma Plugin called Real Gears to generate accurate gear trains! A detailed tool panel allows the gears…joefinapps.comReal accurate gears for Figma!It is not too often that my mechanical engineering experience and my attention to design details overlap, but it finally happened in the best way! I've released a Figma Plugin called Real Gears to generate accurate gear trains! A detailed tool panel allows the gears to be adjusted but has good defaults! Give it a shot and let me know what you think! Also, the plugin is open source! Happy Gearing! Joe 020
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 06/08/2026I'm running Claude Code in WSL2 and running a Rails server but I'm seeing some odd networking issues, is anyone else having similar issues? 000
Reposted by Joe FinneyCarl Franklin @carlfranklin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Introducing the Open Source Maintenance Fee for Polly thepollyproject.org/2026/07/14/p... 31517
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 01/08/2026The latest version of Text Grab v4.15.0 is hot off the presses! So many awesome features to check out! github.com/TheJoeFin/Te... #WinDev #Windows #IndieDev #Productivity #OpenSourcegithub.comRelease v4.15.0: Smart Patterns, Description, Text to Speech, HDR, Settings Polish · TheJoeFin/Text-GrabSmart patterns Identify patterns in the text such as phone numbers, quantities, emails, etc. Text to Speech Speak the text you capture. Local AI Description Use local on device models to do a tex... 051
Joe Finney @thejoefin.com · 01/08/2026Traydio (previously Trdo) 2.0 is coming along well! I'm adding a new VLC library that can be used along side the native library, changing the UI from a flyout to a window and adding almost all of the open issue requests! 111
