Product Impossible
The best new tools, apps, and services you almost missed.
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This Week's Finds
Oct 19–25, 2026
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A free web page from Ed Jefferson, the London journalist and maker of data interactives, that rebuilds Wikipedia's main page for wherever you are, using only geotagged articles within about a half-hour walk. You type a UK postcode, a town, street or landmark, or coordinates, or let the browser find you, and it asks Wikipedia's geosearch for articles within 2,414 metres in a straight line, about 1.5 miles, falling back to the nearest 25 out to about 10 km where there are fewer and stopping at 500. The page copies Wikipedia's own layout, with a featured article picked daily from the most-read long articles nearby, a Did You Know section built from the opening sentences of nearby articles, nearest and further-afield lists, an OpenStreetMap map, A to Z and by-distance indexes and a random article, and article pages in which only links to other nearby articles stay clickable. Nine Wikipedia languages - English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Swedish - arrived the day after launch, and distances show in miles or kilometres. Your place stays out of shared links and out of the site's self-hosted GoatCounter analytics, and the page names the ward and outcode rather than the full postcode so a screenshot does not give your address away, though searches still go to Wikipedia, postcodes.io and Komoot's Photon geocoder. Free, with no account or ads; it is not affiliated with Wikipedia, its own code is not published, and the article text is CC BY-SA 4.0
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The October major release of OBS Studio, the free, open-source program for recording, compositing and live-streaming video, published on 23 October. The browser engine behind browser sources and docks jumps from a July 2024 Chromium base to September 2026's; plugins move to a new folder structure, with first-party plugins in a core folder and third-party plugins in the old locations marked Legacy in the plugin manager and, per the release notes, loading until 34.0; sources snap along the whole axis with a visual guide and never to hidden sources; number fields commit on Enter; audio monitoring gets hotkeys; NVENC is enabled on Arm64; Safe Mode no longer starts the WebSocket server or loads third-party plugins; and profiles are checked for missing encoders when they load. Plugins that use OBS's image-file loader need rebuilding for the libnsgif 1.0 update, and Ubuntu 24.04 support ends, with the official deb now built for 26.04. Windows 10 and 11 on x64 and Arm64, macOS 13 or later with separate Apple silicon and Intel builds, Linux through Flathub and the Ubuntu PPA, plus Steam and the Microsoft Store; as of 26 October Flathub has 33.0 while the download page and the PPA still offer 32.2. The project's contribution rules require human-written code and text. GPL-2.0 or later, free, funded through Open Collective, Patreon and corporate sponsors including YouTube, Twitch, Logitech, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. 78.2k stars as of 26 October 2026
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The second major version of DuckDB, the analytical SQL database that runs inside your program, released on 21 October as a long-term-support version with community support until at least October 2027. Quack, its client-server protocol, gains a CONNECT statement that also attaches PostgreSQL and MySQL and pushes queries down to them, and the command line can now serve and connect; reads of Parquet, CSV and DuckDB files from S3 and other object storage become asynchronous; the VARIANT type is fully integrated, shredded VARIANT in Parquet included; and a new PEG parser replaces the PostgreSQL-derived one used since 2018, so extensions can add their own SQL syntax. Also new are triggers, data-modifying CTEs, NEAREST joins for top-k similarity search, nested schemas, JSON editing functions, signed self-hosted extension repositories and an agent mode in the CLI that detects Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and answers in compact Markdown tables, which cut output on TPC-H by 59 percent, while ICU gives way to native time zone and collation support and DuckLake reaches 1.1. Databases created by 2.0 cannot be read by older versions, though existing files stay compatible both ways; single-arrow lambdas are off by default and go away in 2.1; and Intel Mac builds are being phased out. The announcement suggests that mission-critical users test on a shadow system first or wait for 2.0.1 in November. Clients for Python, R, Java, Node.js, Go, Rust, C, ODBC and WebAssembly among others. MIT and free; the code and trademarks belong to the non-profit DuckDB Foundation in Amsterdam, and core development comes from DuckLabs, formerly DuckDB Labs, a subsidiary of Amazon Web Services since August. 42.6k stars as of 26 October 2026
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An alpha compatibility layer from Kaleb Simpson of Voltare in South Carolina that runs Android apps on Apple silicon Macs as ordinary Mac apps, with no emulator, virtual machine or Linux kernel, in the spirit of Wine. App code is converted from Android's DEX format to Java bytecode on first launch and runs on a bundled OpenJDK runtime against Mac.apk's own reimplementation of the Android framework; 64-bit ARM native libraries run as they are, with 32-bit ones recompiled ahead of time; and OpenGL ES and Vulkan reach Metal through ANGLE and MoltenVK. Dropping in an APK, split APK or XAPK makes it a separate app in the Applications folder, F-Droid, Aurora Store and the Epic Games Store work inside it, with Touch ID or a password for every install, and each app's data now lives in Application Support rather than inside the app bundle, a change made after launch feedback. Its own stand-in for Google Play Services handles Google sign-in and licence checks but not Play Billing, Play Integrity or apps that need Google-signed services, ads served through its AdMob stand-in never fill, and its compatibility list counts 58 of 71 tested apps working and 10 partly. Game controllers, right- and middle-click and trackpad gestures work. It is not a sandbox, so apps run with your user's permissions, and the README says to install only APKs you trust. Needs macOS 26.4 or later and takes about 280 MB on disk; the notarized download checks GitHub for updates and has no analytics. AGPL-3.0 since the source opened on 19 October, with commercial licences on request, free, with donations through GitHub Sponsors and PayPal; version 1.0.2303 shipped on 21 October. 3.3k stars as of 26 October 2026
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A free high-precision scientific calculator for Windows, macOS and Linux, developed by volunteers since 2004 and led by Helder Correia, which came back this year after 0.12 in 2016, with 1.0 and now 1.1 on 20 October from a new official home on GitHub. It works to up to 50 digits with complex numbers, vectors and matrices, more than 140 functions, units and constants, and your own variables, functions and units, in a keyboard-driven, syntax-highlighted display with autocompletion, a formula book, editable history and sessions in tabs, panes or windows. Version 1.1 adds an nth-root function, constant search by name or unit, private tabs that are discarded on close, options to switch off automatic input adjustments and to trim trailing zeroes, and a compact Classic layout beside the default Modern one with a classic keypad, and restores digit grouping while typing, free copying of results and the function-key notation shortcuts, while restoring sessions at startup gets faster. Windows installer and portable ZIP, an Apple silicon DMG and portable ZIP for macOS 14.4 or later that are not notarized, and Flathub or distribution packages on Linux; the Homebrew cask still points at 0.12. Official builds check speedcrunch.org for updates at most once a day. GPL-2.0 or later, free, funded by donations through Revolut, PayPal and Bitcoin
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