Not a good programmer, but I've been writing documentation improvements for a few projects I use in my free time. I'm doing it for kopia currently as the documentation for that project is not great at the moment.
Kopia is a deduplicating backup application similar to BorgBackup and Restic, written in Golang by a former google engineer. It creates infinite incremental backups, has encryption and compression, and works with S3, B2, SSH, or a local filesystem.
You are a hero among men.
An API proxy to allow 3rd party reddit clients to browse Lemmy with only minimal code changes. I've got it showing comments now :) Source isn't uploaded yet, but it will be soon.
You mean I could use boost and browse lemmy?
Since boost isn't open source, the dev would have to allow you to configure the API endpoint (so the app would connect to the proxy instead of reddit.com), or someone would have to hack the app, which would probably be somewhat difficult.
Ah, didn't know that. Which apps would be able to read lemmy, if it's not too much of a hassle?
The reason I want to build this kind of proxy is that any app would be able to use it with minimal changes (configurable API server). For proprietary apps, you're still at the mercy of the devs, but their work is greatly simplified. For open source apps such as e.g. RedReader, Infinity, anyone could make those changes. Another thing that it might be useful for is bots and the like. If I manage to implement support for posting, those could work on Lemmy as well. I personally would like to see the return of kg2bee.
That's an awesome idea, hopefully some reddit apps devs can get onboard.
Now with threaded comments:
I feel like this is a bit of a cop out, but I've contributed to Lemmy's UI and Typescript client for the past couple of months. I also made a Typescript bot library for Lemmy.
I'll demonstrate one of my bots in a reply.
Hi Lemmy!
I make BusKill laptop kill cords that make your computer lock, shutdown, or self-destruct if the device is physically separated from you.
This protects your (encrypted) data from theft, which can be useful for digital nomads and cryptotraders working in cafes/coworking spaces. But our target audience is journalists, activists, and human rights workers in oppressive regimes.
Both the hardware and the software are open-source (CC-BY-SA, GPLv3). We manufacture the hardware with injection molding, but if you have a 3D-printer, then you can take a stab at our 3D-printable prototype.
...And apparently I'm doing (minor) contributions to lemmy these days too
quite interesting. never heard of such project before. are there any other purely software based solutions?
I don't know how BusKill could work without a physical cable.
But there are many similar projects that we list in our documentation that you may be interested in:
What a nice idea!
My claim to fame is probably OctoPrint, a web interface for consumer 3d printers that I created over a decade ago now and have been maintaining ever since, since 2014 full time and since 2016 also 100% crowd funded. It's written in Python (backend) and HTML/JS (frontend) and licensed under AGPLv3.
Oh I was just listening to a podcast where you were a guest in https://pod.fossified.com/2023/04/05/s01e03.html and I had to lough out loud when they asked you what they could do to bring more women into FOSS or what it was and your response was to not invite them to podcasts only to discuss the topic of women in FOSS :D
Yeah, that just had to be said since it's a bit of a pattern indeed ๐ I warned Daniel that I'd drop that if they got me on for that topic ^^
I'm working on osintbuddy, my vision of a Maltego/Palantir alternative :) https://github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy
I'm building midimech. It's an isomorphic musical layout system for midi controllers with a grid layout. It lays out the notes in a way that makes most scales and chords easier to play than other instruments. For example, if you can play the shape of a triangle, you know how to play every major chord. An upside-down triangle is a minor chord. Most scales fit nicely along the fingers since you're running rows of 3 or 4 notes and going to the next one. The layout is closely related to the circle of 5ths, making chord progressions easier too. It's got a lot of features too, including a MIDI visualizer for learning songs, and a scale/mode database. We're just starting out and more controller support is coming soon.
That sounds so cool!! Such an awesome idea
Currently on Finamp and some projects build by my self.
Awesome! Howdy from one of the Jellyfin Roku programmers.
RudderStack, a headless customer data platform. With RudderStack, you can bring all your customer data/events from to a single warehouse in real time. You can then send the unified data to 200+ destination for user anaytics and personalization. You can do so in a privacy-focused manner using data transformation feature to mask/delete PII/sensitive data
Source code : https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server License : AGPLv3
Compactor is my Windows filesystem compression tool, good for clawing back space wasted by poorly-compressed games without having to faff about with the command line. I have a full rewrite in the pipeline that I'm procrastinating on.
ioztat is basically what zfs iostat would be if it existed โ an iostat for ZFS datasets, rather than ZFS vdevs. It was born out of a script from Reddit's /r/zfs and in a slightly obsessive period I rewrote and expanded it into a pretty capable tool I'm quite proud of.
If you have any experience packaging software for your favourite Linux distribution โ well, I'm a FreeBSD user, so please knock yourself out. I'm begging you.
num_threads is a tiny foundational Rust crate, most notably used by time in order to determine if it's safe to make certain syscalls. I have implementations for Open, Net, and DragonFlyBSD that I've been procrastinating on merging, because blessing unsafe code for platforms I don't use is scary. Moral support is welcomed.
When I was sick with Covid in April I built Turbopilot, a weekend hack to get code autocomplete models (like GitHub Autopilot) to run locally on low spec machines using the library behind llama.cpp. The models I used were codegen from salesforce and the idea is that if you're running these models locally it's free and you're not sending your source code back to the microsoft/github mothership.
Since then I've not really had time to work on it very much as my day job has been pretty busy but I really want to carry on development. I've got experimental nvidia acceleration building and I'm working on shipping a windows version at the moment.
BTW If anyone is interested, I'm looking for some help and I'm willing to offer some technical mentoring (I have a background in AI/ML and a dozen years exp doing software engineering professionally)
I'm the creator of Deus Ex Randomizer and I've been working on it a lot. This mod randomizes tons of things in the game like locations of items/keys/goals/enemies/starting locations. It also randomizes passwords that way you actually have to find them just like playing the game for the first time. Stats of weapons, skills, and augmentations are randomized too, and a lot more. We have a trailer video here but it's about a year old now and we've added so much to it since then.
I've also made RollerCoaster Tycoon Randomizer, Build Engine Randomizer (as in Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Ion Fury), and StarCraft 2 Randomizer
I've also done some work on ScummVM (mostly for The 11th Hour and other Trilobyte games).
I just made a collection of communities for my projects https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities
Haha that's amazing! Integrated bingo! Death markers! ๐ And you just gave me an incredibly dumb idea. How about a SCUMM engine randomizer? ๐
Few times a week i do some editing or writing comments within OpenStreetMap. I see the whole task as a game, results being implemented & used for people in need. Good feelings afterwards.
Focus on your neighborhood & community, as it continues to change, if you want to participate. Few weeks later changes are implemented into Organic Maps as example.
I do the same, but through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Helps those in need from natural disasters, getting access to vaccines, or whatever else.
For the last 6 months I have been working on a completely open flight stick design. Just me working on it. DIY hotas sticks is a pretty damn niche hobby.
6 axis, 32 button, based on the MiG31 design, with a front panel on the base (on this design).
Not the most cost efficient vs quality as everything is 3D printed. Honestly it is my second big 3D modeling design and it was a pretty complicated one to get right. Ran into a lot of FreeCAD bugs. First time working with libopenCM3 also, so much less bloated than STM HAL. Plenty of improvements to come once it is released.
Open hardware with the CERN OHL V2 S and the firmware GPL3.0. Edit: forgot to link it - https://github.com/JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S
For the last year I have been contributing to Portmaster. Open source application firewall that focuses on privacy. You can check it here https://safing.io We recently did v1.1.0
I maintain and develop many GTK themes for Linux, currently working on making them work properly in GTK4 and (hopefully) libadwaita
As of recently, I am officially helping Mastodon with developer relations and documentation! I also do some promotion / writing and speaking, and other work with the MicroPython project - and the Awesome MicroPython list. Beyond that, I offer a bunch of drive-by pull requests to smaller projects that I use, when I can!
I'm a supporting member of the EFF, PSF, and OSI (I ran the OSI booth at State of Open this year), and I am an ambassador for OpenUK
None. Though I've been fucking around with FreeCAD a lot and would like to share some designs if I finish anything useful.
I have a few projects I switch between based on how much time I have and where my interests lie.
My most recent is a from-scratch compiler for a made-up language (MIT), Intercept, written in C with no dependencies (apart from libc, of course). I'm really proud of this one, and have even been lucky enough to work with other people on it.
And then there's my text editor (MIT), which is an homage to Emacs. I just have learned so much from Emacs and like it so much that I had to make my own. At this point it's got a working SDL2 and OpenGL backend, as well as tree-sitter syntax highlighting, and, of course, is extensible through LITE LISP, the built-in programming language.
Finally, my pride and joy, LensorOS (GPLv3). I started this project when I first started learning C++, and through it I have learned amazing things about how computers actually work, from hardware to kernels to userspace.
Just wanted to say, this is a really good idea for a thread! I really enjoy seeing all these amazing projects from everybody
Not the more normal FOSS project, but I keep plugging away on Speeduino an open source (hardware and software) Engine Management system (aka ECU). Started it way back in 2013 and it just continues to grow in terms of community and contributors.
We have no way of accurately tracking how many are in use, but there's at least 4000 of these units out there these days, which is a number I'm pretty proud of for a hobby based open hardware project.
Nothing at the moment, but I co-founded Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation. I was Director of Operations there until I had to back away (health/medical reasons forced some pretty seismic shifts in my life). That was a rewarding and challenging experience!
My biggest free/open source project is FreeMazes3D, a puzzle solving game involving procedurally generated mazes. I developed it using various JavaScript technologies (especially Babylon.js and Electron). I feel that most of the core content has already been created, but I do plan to do a few minor update releases down the road...
OpenRGB, it's an open source application to control RGB lighting on PC components and peripherals, smart lights, and more. It started as an attempt to reverse engineer ASUS Aura because I wanted to control my motherboard lighting in Linux and then I went on to add more and more devices and an API to unify them, then the community blew it up into what it is today with effects plugins and third party apps.
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