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Finally a way to run executables without installing them! NO Admin needed!

Howdy %Name%,

Last week I was asking Claude to create a Rust application and it said something that caught my eye.

Claude: “We’ve already done that in another tool when we created a WASM“

I did remember seeing the term a few times before when creating a Progressive Web App but I was busy at the time and didn’t ask it to explain the term.

Turns out that was a HUGE mistake❗

WebAssembly (WASM) is compiled code that runs full speed right in the browser, without installing anything❗

You just open a link and it works

No restrictions with Admin Rights, no Anti-Virus

It does this because (even though it is compiled code) it is sandboxed by the browser.

Don’t get me wrong, there are limitations to what you can do, however this opens a LOT of doors for us here at the-Automator❗

For instance, I created WASM versions of our Effortless Video Reducer and Quick Raw Edit

Another HUGE benefit is they are OS independent! Our WASM tools will run in Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, iPad, etc. Anything that supports a modern browser.

So suddenly we can truly create a tool that virtually ANYONE can run❗

You can learn more about WASM here.

Now on with the show…

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Creating an App based off a Picture

I had so much fun with my first Restaurant App based from a picture I thought I’d try another (this time recording it).

So, in this video, I show you how I use a few online pictures to build an App for a restaurant.

After creating it my friend Joey showed it to the business owner and they really got excited!

They wanted to know if we could also include a “rewards” aspect so we are building that in as well as in-app notifications.

AI Turns Menu Photo Into App in Minutes 🤖

Easily Creating Virtual drives

One of my oldest scripts is still one of my favorites.

Our tool, Drive Creator, for creating “fake” / virtual drives to quickly access projects is an enormous time saver! I like it so much we added it to our AHK Explorer.

We still sell it as a stand-alone tool and you can see how it works in this video.

BTW – we’ve added more to the tool. Now you can create a label and icon associated with the new “drive”. It also comes with a script to automatically navigate you to the “real” folder.

Creating Fake Drives for easy access & Identical paths across computers

Understanding Claude Skills

If you’re not using Skills with your AI you should be!

In this video NotebookLM explains why Claude Skills are important, how they customize AI to YOU and how to build them.

Claude Skills Explained in Minutes 🎯

Improving People’s Lives: Story #112

Today I was chatting with someone at a local Chamber of Commerce meeting.

She’s feeling overwhelmed working on a project she volunteered on.

Too many things are “in her head” and she needs a simple, flexible way to let all involved know the plan (and be able to make changes).

I told her this sounded like a “fun” AI project where we can create an App to let people see what is planned and make updates.

The relief on her face said it all! So great to easily provide tools that, just 2 years ago, would not have been possible w/o a 4 figure budget!

📚 What we’re reading

Galaxy Watch app transforms your smartwatch into a Bluetooth mouse
Why pushing your router’s power button isn’t a real reboot
How Windows File History helps protect your work

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

Activepieces is an open-source Zapier alternative
Documenso is an open-source DocuSign alternative
Google’s new dev tool automatically converts iPhone apps into Android apps

⚡️Productivity tips: To move your active window…

Win+Shift+Left Arrow :Moves the active window to the monitor to the Left
Win+Shift+Right Arrow :Moves the active window to the monitor to the Right
Win+Shift+Up Arrow :Maximizes the active window vertically (keeps its width)
Win+Shift+Down Arrow :Restores the window from a maximized state, or minimizes it

🤣 A spot of Humor: I love this guy!

King of One-Liners | Andy Huggins | Stand Up Comedy

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #146

This week I turned a radiologist’s report shuffling into a screen capture, AI prompt, and paste-it-exactly pipeline, and spent a long session with Carol getting two speech engines to handle verbatim and diarized transcripts at the same time.

I also fed a two hour call into my AI segmenter and got back 11 clips, rebuilt Automate My Task in Rust so image based UI automation actually flies, and got the Effortless Video Reducer, Quick Raw Edit, and MP3 ripper running straight in a browser with WebAssembly.

In this week’s video I walk you through all of it, plus ClipShare for copy/pasting between devices over Tailscale without installing a thing.

What we Automated this week #146

Clients say…

Holy shit❗ This is amazing — Dr. Kamran J. (Radiologist)

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 605 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that are exclusive to Hero members❗

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

Help Hero Members with their Questions & Code
AHK Tools
- OpenRouter Provisioning API tokens
- Updates to TextUnderMouse
- Borrowing Firefox Cookies
- Removing Mark of Internet flag with AHK and PowerShell
- AutoHotkey.dll
- XPLorer (AHKExplorer & XP search)
  - Adjust Tree Width
  - Use same position for XP Search
  - Improve speed/reliability
- WatchFolders example
Rust Tools
- Virtual Camera
- Rust DLL
- FocusGuard (Prevent focus being stolen)
- AutomateMyTask – image search benchmark
- AnyDoc

Progressive Web Apps
- Now ClipShare works with Files, not just pictures and text
- Accessing Claude via CLI from my Phone
- Effortless Video Reducer & Quick Raw Edit – Also caching
- Song Sync
- Burgers and more / HenHouse – in-app notifications
- Google maps – photo and review driver

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 2 hours a week where we help people with their automation issues

🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes

Stop arguing — John Carlton
The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach — Benjamin E. Mays
Take responsibility for your actions. This simple habit has profound consequences you will learn to enjoy. Fix what you break, clean up your mess, watch your buddy’s back — John Carlton

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P.S. If you cannot install programs, you really should look into WebAssembly!

It’s a total game changer for us❗

AHK News 2026-02-19 You can’t afford to hire just anyone❗

Howdy %Name%,

When I was getting my Undergraduate degree I supported myself by painting homes.

One of my clients told me about a story where the tenant, who was a “little off” had offered to repaint some bedrooms in her house if he’d buy the paint.

He agreed and didn’t think anything of it.

A few months later he had some maintenance to do in the house.

The second he opened the door he knew he’d made an enormous mistake

Apparently the woman was a bipolar manic depressive and had painted EVERYTHING in the apartment BLACK.

He said “Joe, when I say everything, I mean literally everything. From the walls and ceiling to the stove and refrigerator.

Even the inside of the refrigerator (down to the ice cube trays) were all black.

So, just remember, when you’re hiring a consultant from Fiverr, you may end up with something you didn’t expect.

When you hire us you get professionals that are (mostly) sane❗

Now on with the show…

5 Git commands that feel like Magic

During last Friday’s AHK Hero call Isaias walked us through a great article about 5 git commands that feel like magic.

You check out the extract in this video.

🔥 5 Git Commands That Will Make You Look Like a Coding Wizard! | AHK Hero Extract

Where did those files come from anyway❓

I was testing some of the new functionality in AHK Script Maker when the following thought occurred to me:

After dragging files from Windows Explorer to a window, how do I know which files I dragged❓

This got me thinking: What if we copied the path of the files dragged to the clipboard so, if we cared to, we could look at our clipboard history and be able to see what files were dragged.

This morning Irfan added that very functionality to AHK Script Maker!

I also realized we should add our v1 to v2 Script converter to ASM (which Irfan will do soon).

Still switching to v2?

In the below video we give you an intro to V2. If you prefer short lessons you should check out our course to help you make the switch

🚀 Make the switch to AutoHotkey v2! 🚀 Here’s what you need to know 💡

The Dark Side of AI

The majority of people agree AI is making them more productive however, could is also be slowing us down❓

This video discusses how AI is changing our workload and expectations of our managers.

The Dark Side of AI: How It’s Secretly Increasing Your Workload 📈

Quick way to Check your Stock Portfolio

Our tool for quickly Checking Stock Prices was greatly improved by using SetTimers to make it feel like it is multi-threaded. (If you’re new to SetTimers, we cover them in our Intermediate AHK course)

In this video you can see how now it just “blinks” and you get your whole portfolio.

⏰ From Slow to Lightning Fast: AI’s Amazing Code Transformation | AHK Hero Extract

Improving People’s Lives: Story #82

We met earlier today with Connie, a Hero member, to build a custom tool to help process his “meeting minutes”. We’re building a custom GUI that will let him choose from meetings, attendees, and locations, then sending it all off for transcription and summary.

The results are being returned in markdown format, which he’ll pop into MS word, manually review, then send off!