WhatSnap genuinely shocked me, because it deliberately thought about things so many accessible clients for messengers - read: EasyGram - do not. For instance, link notification actions to conversations. It's a little slow on my Windows 10 Ryzen 3900XT for reasons I suspect have more to do with Windows 10, but I like it enough that I actually uninstalled regular WhatsAppp, something WinZapp never made me do. Well done @Aryan.
Well, that was a big fail and made Beep RS 1.0.5 necessary, so it's here. The installer spelled its own name with a spare closing brace. Freshen looked up the name it was given and found no registration. Installed copies of 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 have to download this installer and run it. Update will not carry them.
Install this please? Version 1.0.6 will be out later today to add more deaths.
https://github.com/Nick6489/BeepRS/releases/download/v1.0.5/BeepRS-1.0.5.exe
Right. Beep RS version 1.0.4 has just shown up and sat down. update from 1.0.3. Here's what I'm noticing, but i need confirmation of this.
It appears the installer update refuses to execute, then errors in a very strange way - changing the update button to a close button. Zip works. Please confirm for me those who have the installer builds
OK. Beep RS 1.0.3 is out with two new death noises. 1.0.2 will not update to this one successfully, it throws Checking for an update.
unknown variant `inno`, expected `files` or `mac_bundle` at line 109 column 20.
Please download 1.0.3 manually. There's now an installer. Freshen does different things depending on whether the installer or the zip file is used. I need testers for both, 1.0.4 comes out tomorrow.
Installer: https://github.com/Nick6489/BeepRS/releases/download/v1.0.3/BeepRS-1.0.3.exe
Zip: https://github.com/Nick6489/BeepRS/releases/download/v1.0.3/beeprs-1.0.3-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip
Here's how this is going to work. I'm going to release a new version of BeepRS probably tonight. I'm going to need a lot of people to install it with an actual installer. Play the game. Then, I'll push a new version and we'll find out if Freshen does its job at scale. Honestly? If it does, I will consider Freshen largely complete on Windows.
Major Freshen work on tap. I just saw Freshen update a demonstration app using Inno setup, and you never even see the inno installer, you get the same progress regardless. In a way, it actually looks even nicer than conventional, extant Freshen. All you Beepers are going to get to see this very soon.
Kind request for the @jaybird110127 types who like to archive streams. If you're doing it locally anyway while you listen, I highly suggest Blindradio, developed by @serrebi which, alone out of every single player that has this feature, gets it right. I've verified that it saves the stream, in its original format, *without* opening a second connection to do it. Fantastic job, Brandon.
Also ICYMI: The future of Eloquence64RS depends on what happens to OpenEVV. I have been made a contributor to Eloquence64 by @fastfinge and I can already tell you that he's implemented the presence contours you love. The 16 KHZ contours, however, will need to be redesigned as OpenEVV spits out different consonants and frigatives than the hot patched 16 KHZ mode in RS. However, if OpenEVV gets into a usable, read; Eloquence 6.1-like state, RS goes byebye.
ICYMI: Eloquence64RS 19.5.1 is out, and it may very well be the final release of this addon as OpenEVV development is getting really interesting. New in this is another Audio Contour called Presence Trebel, which is a bite for bite copy of what @HOzosch did in his Eloquence64 19.1, which ought to make the likes of @JamminJerry happy. It also is the first Eloquence to feature my longterm solution to the audio contours. Try it!
Petzold-style Windows apps are the Gold standard for accessibility and speed. ...Not for appearance. WinUI, Microsoft's latest, can be made responsive in my limited testing, but WinUI is RAM hungry. 38 MB for a Window with one element and nothing else, programmed in Rust.
By the way, some news. @fastfinge just invited me to contribute to Eloquence64, and I have accepted, so that integration work on contours can move forward with me. I just tested OpenEVV and it is remarkable how far it's come for English. As a result, effective immediately, Eloquence64RS is maintanence mode only.
Right, here we go. I just pushed Eloquence64RS 19.5.1-RS which does exactly this, we're now loading your contours from a new DLL, again, in preparation for a future without this addon. ...I couldn't help myself, I added a new one under 11 KHZ called 'Presence treble' which I believe will make @JamminJerry very happy and @HOzosch laugh very hard.
Yes, while I am aware of other Eloquence reimplementations, I am emphatically backing OpenEVV. I genuinely believe that project has a better understanding of what needs to be done to allow us to have Eloquence on any platform for the next 20 years. Fantastic work, @Mudb0y. Maybe this time next year we can reimplement all of Delta as a new language and be able to ship zero IBM code, eh?
I have ChatGPT doing a summary of what is happening with OpenEVV every week. Pretty significant week on that front. We're not at Eloquence 6.1 parity yet, but we're close enough to it that I can confidently say that, if things keep at this pace, Eloquence64RS will not be necessary for NVDA 2027. To that end, this morning I'm going to ship a version of RS that separates the presence contour into a module. For you users, there should be absolutely no functional changes what so ever.
RSS memory usage:
Caddy, 34484
hkc-archives: 10308
...That's less than one PHP worker might be. I could get that down even further by using nginx, but that would mean configuration files I don't love.
Systemd, Caddy, SQLite, Rust. @matt had the idea...
Minuter 0.2: RUNGUI replaces WXDragon, cutting the binary size in half. Tradeoff is that this is a window, not a dialogue, so NVDA doesn't speak that introductory text. Nothing changes other than cosmetics and a smaller binary and less usage of RAM.
https://github.com/Nick6489/minuter-rs/releases/download/v0.2.0/Minuter.exe
I'll say that Rust might not have been optimal for this, the executable's size is 10 MB and requires a C library to compile WXWidgets. This might be the first thing I've ever released that might be a touch bloated. I realized, too late, that Zig and Capy exist and that Minuter might have been an excellent test case for both.
I use Minuter by @FreakyFwoof every week so that I start my shows on the second almost every time. I love it so much I feel like more people than just NVDA users should be able to use it. ...So I changed that. Minuter For Windows is here, with a Mac version coming soon. The experience is very much Andre's vision, just...screen reader agnostic. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace shows or hides it to the tray.
https://github.com/Nick6489/minuter-rs/releases/download/v0.1.0/Minuter.exe
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@jaybird110127/117403766782203519
This is my childhood clock.
Nightly 2026-10-06 of PortkeyDrop has been released, having moved uss off the old generated Prism wrapper onto Prismer. Update in app or grab Portable or installed copies here:
https://github.com/Nick6489/PortkeyDrop/releases/tag/nightly-20261006