Joe Finney
@thejoefin.com
Making apps which help you get to the stuff you love. WinDev MVP
www.JoeFinApps.com
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🦙📢 #WindowsDev the #WindowsCommunityToolkit just released v8.2.251219! An incremental update with a bunch of great fixes from our community! Update today! #WinUI #dotnet #XAML #UnoPlatform #WinAppSDK github.com/CommunityToo...
Release v8.2.251219 · CommunityToolkit/Windows
What's Changed An incremental update of various fixes atop the 8.2 release: 8.2.251219. For changes since 8.1, see the full 8.2 release notes here. Below are changes since 8.2.250402. Bug Fixes Fi...
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December 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
🦙📢 #WindowsDev the #WindowsCommunityToolkit just released v8.2.251219! An incremental update with a bunch of great fixes from our community! Update today! #WinUI #dotnet #XAML #UnoPlatform #WinAppSDK github.com/CommunityToo...
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 14: A look back at 2025. Have a listen:
Episode 14: A look back at 2025
Joe and Tamás look back at what happened in 2025, and where we are...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 14: A look back at 2025. Have a listen:
Text Grab v4.11 is out on GitHub! Major features in this release are the Calculations Pane and the RegEx manager!
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Release v4.11 Calc Pane and RegEx Manager · TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
v4.11 brings several new major features to Text Grab!
Calculation Pane in Edit Text Window
Perform calculations in the Edit Text Window
Between a calculator and Excel
RegEx manager in Find ...
github.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Text Grab v4.11 is out on GitHub! Major features in this release are the Calculations Pane and the RegEx manager!
github.com/TheJoeFin/Te...
github.com/TheJoeFin/Te...
Always cool new things coming to the Windows Community Toolkit Labs! Adorners on items on a canvas in XAML!
#WinDev
#WinDev
🦙📢 #WinUI #XAML Adorners packages from #WindowsCommunityToolkitLabs now available on NuGet to try out! 🎉🎉🎉
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Always cool new things coming to the Windows Community Toolkit Labs! Adorners on items on a canvas in XAML!
#WinDev
#WinDev
Trdo 1.5 brings the ability to favorite songs and view a list of the favorited songs! I love making tiny yet powerful apps!
December 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Trdo 1.5 brings the ability to favorite songs and view a list of the favorited songs! I love making tiny yet powerful apps!
Reoccurring and planned activities in the Latest Outfit!
Do you go on regular runs or rides? I run every Tuesday evening and now Outfit makes it easy to plan your outfits for those regular activities! Tap the "Later" button Pick the date and time Tap "Reoccurring" to have it repeating or "Plan" as…
Do you go on regular runs or rides? I run every Tuesday evening and now Outfit makes it easy to plan your outfits for those regular activities! Tap the "Later" button Pick the date and time Tap "Reoccurring" to have it repeating or "Plan" as…
Reoccurring and planned activities in the Latest Outfit!
Do you go on regular runs or rides? I run every Tuesday evening and now Outfit makes it easy to plan your outfits for those regular activities! Tap the "Later" button Pick the date and time Tap "Reoccurring" to have it repeating or "Plan" as a one off. Pick the frequency of the activity, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Tap "Save" when you're happy with it! Get Outfit HERE: Happy Outdoor Fitness!! Joe
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December 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Reoccurring and planned activities in the Latest Outfit!
Do you go on regular runs or rides? I run every Tuesday evening and now Outfit makes it easy to plan your outfits for those regular activities! Tap the "Later" button Pick the date and time Tap "Reoccurring" to have it repeating or "Plan" as…
Do you go on regular runs or rides? I run every Tuesday evening and now Outfit makes it easy to plan your outfits for those regular activities! Tap the "Later" button Pick the date and time Tap "Reoccurring" to have it repeating or "Plan" as…
Playing around with using Figma Sites to have simple sites for my apps: trdo.net
Trdo - A simple internet radio player for Windows
Created with Figma
trdo.net
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Playing around with using Figma Sites to have simple sites for my apps: trdo.net
Released another preview build of Text Grab 4.11
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A lot of big enhancements coming in this version and preview 2 brings .NET 10!
github.com/TheJoeFin/Te...
A lot of big enhancements coming in this version and preview 2 brings .NET 10!
Release v4.11.0 Preview 2 · TheJoeFin/Text-Grab
New big features
Calculation Pane in Edit Text Window
Regex manager in Find & Replace
Regex in Edit Text Window bottom bar
Zoom in Fullscreen Grab with scroll
Pan zoomed Fullscreen Grab by moving ...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Released another preview build of Text Grab 4.11
github.com/TheJoeFin/Te...
A lot of big enhancements coming in this version and preview 2 brings .NET 10!
github.com/TheJoeFin/Te...
A lot of big enhancements coming in this version and preview 2 brings .NET 10!
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 13: UWP Apps with Daniel Paulino. Have a listen:
Episode 13: UWP Apps with Daniel Paulino
This week our guest is Daniel Paulino, builder of multiple popular UWP...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 13: UWP Apps with Daniel Paulino. Have a listen:
For some reason Text Grab is behaving like Win+Shift+F is now is reserved hotkey... when did that happen? Did I miss a blog post? @jenmsft.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For some reason Text Grab is behaving like Win+Shift+F is now is reserved hotkey... when did that happen? Did I miss a blog post? @jenmsft.bsky.social
Finally got around to updating the MagickCrop logo and adding Trdo on my website joefinapps.com
JoeFin Apps
Apps enabling you to focus on the important things
joefinapps.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Finally got around to updating the MagickCrop logo and adding Trdo on my website joefinapps.com
Lil rainy in Seattle this weekend, who would’ve guessed
November 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Lil rainy in Seattle this weekend, who would’ve guessed
The Surface Flex keyboard really does enable different more flexible ways of working.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The Surface Flex keyboard really does enable different more flexible ways of working.
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INotifyPodcastChanged Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey and hosts Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme
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#podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz
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#podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz
INotifyPodcastChanged | Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey
This week our guest is Ginny Caughey, a Microsoft MVP of 22 years and an expert on enterprise application development. You can find Ginny on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/gcaughey.bsky.social an...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
INotifyPodcastChanged Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey and hosts Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme
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#podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz
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#podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz
@bdsams.com you mentioned on the Sams Report that you made an app, is this app in the world or still in development?
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
@bdsams.com you mentioned on the Sams Report that you made an app, is this app in the world or still in development?
Reposted by Joe Finney
🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey. Have a listen:
Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey
This week our guest is Ginny Caughey, a Microsoft MVP of 22 years and an...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🎙️ Just published a new episode of INotifyPodcastChanged: Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey. Have a listen:
When coding with LLMs in Agent mode they tend to make a bunch of extra files which can be helpful for communicating cross threads, but also for debugging... but now the question arises, should these files be kept or discarded?
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
When coding with LLMs in Agent mode they tend to make a bunch of extra files which can be helpful for communicating cross threads, but also for debugging... but now the question arises, should these files be kept or discarded?
I know I'm biased, but Trdo is my new favorite app. Now it is super easy to search for internet radios and the whole thing feels so simple and clean. Also remember 100% in the tray, as minimal as minimal can be!
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October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I know I'm biased, but Trdo is my new favorite app. Now it is super easy to search for internet radios and the whole thing feels so simple and clean. Also remember 100% in the tray, as minimal as minimal can be!
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nxt4...
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nxt4...
I finally have an iPhone with a programmable action button, so I did the obvious thing and programmed it to open Bixby
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I finally have an iPhone with a programmable action button, so I did the obvious thing and programmed it to open Bixby
Super interesting post by @filipw.strathweb.com about how to use expensive Cloud LLMs to coordinate the work of less expensive local LLMs. I might try to recreate a similar demo using WinAI APIs and see if I get similarly good results!
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
LLM and SLM collaboration using the Minions pattern (with Phi-4-mini and Azure OpenAI) | Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Super interesting post by @filipw.strathweb.com about how to use expensive Cloud LLMs to coordinate the work of less expensive local LLMs. I might try to recreate a similar demo using WinAI APIs and see if I get similarly good results!
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
www.strathweb.com/2025/10/llm-...
The Shriek of the Window
In the year of dread—two thousand twenty-five,
A whisper stirred where code did strive.
The system woke with update dire,
Its breath a chill, its heart a wire.
...
In the year of dread—two thousand twenty-five,
A whisper stirred where code did strive.
The system woke with update dire,
Its breath a chill, its heart a wire.
...
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The Shriek of the Window
In the year of dread—two thousand twenty-five,
A whisper stirred where code did strive.
The system woke with update dire,
Its breath a chill, its heart a wire.
...
In the year of dread—two thousand twenty-five,
A whisper stirred where code did strive.
The system woke with update dire,
Its breath a chill, its heart a wire.
...
New App Announcement – Trdo: a minimal Tray Radio
In keeping with the theme of minimal, I'll keep this short. The experience i was trying to reproduce is that of getting into your car and turning on the radio with one push of a button. Jumping between stations was simple and easy too. Play / Pause…
In keeping with the theme of minimal, I'll keep this short. The experience i was trying to reproduce is that of getting into your car and turning on the radio with one push of a button. Jumping between stations was simple and easy too. Play / Pause…
New App Announcement – Trdo: a minimal Tray Radio
In keeping with the theme of minimal, I'll keep this short. The experience i was trying to reproduce is that of getting into your car and turning on the radio with one push of a button. Jumping between stations was simple and easy too. Play / Pause the radio by clicking the radio icon in the tray Right click to get a flyout with more options…
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October 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
New App Announcement – Trdo: a minimal Tray Radio
In keeping with the theme of minimal, I'll keep this short. The experience i was trying to reproduce is that of getting into your car and turning on the radio with one push of a button. Jumping between stations was simple and easy too. Play / Pause…
In keeping with the theme of minimal, I'll keep this short. The experience i was trying to reproduce is that of getting into your car and turning on the radio with one push of a button. Jumping between stations was simple and easy too. Play / Pause…
The new WinUIEx logo is looking niiiiiiice!!
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The new WinUIEx logo is looking niiiiiiice!!
I feel like I've been hearing about git integration into File Explorer for a long time now... did I miss something? When is that coming out? @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I feel like I've been hearing about git integration into File Explorer for a long time now... did I miss something? When is that coming out? @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social