I tend to get incredibly crippling imposter syndrome (which as far as I understand is very common!) which has stopped me from really contributing in fear of just "making something worse". That, and a lot of health issues recently has not helped that either...

However, I have been trying to get my toes wet again by making some small contributions to Jerboa though. I am hoping to learn more about Jetpack Compose so that I can contribute even more!

I'd also love to contribute to the backend for Lemmy, but my knowledge of Rust is very very small so that is quite daunting. My strongest knowledge is in Java, but I have been wanting to get a better grip on Rust as well... 🤔

A music playout system. I put on an internet radio-like show each week and I needed a way to play music. The only solutions I could find were for Windows but my desktops are all Linux so I wrote my own.

It differs a bit from the more usual "music player". I need to know how long until the track ends and how long until it starts to fade out. I also want to add lots of comments so that I can talk about the tracks I'm playing.

Over time I've added other features - tabbed playlists, automatic lookup of titles on Wikipedia, estimated start/end times for tracks I've yet to play, ability to edit mp3 tags and - well, quite a lot more. It's just grown over time as I've needed things.

I call it MusicMuster, but I haven't actually open sourced it yet. I mean to, but imposter syndrome keeps popping up. I'll just make the code a bit better, remove that hack, etc. Maybe you know how it is.

I'm actually looking for an open source project to get involved in. Started teaching myself Python and Javascript last year, picked up some C and Linux-adjacent skills at some point, now studying CS part time as a mature student. I'd love to get involved with something free and open and I'd be happy to learn a new language to do it. Anyone desperate? 😂

Honestly not working on it at the moment but been meaning to for a long time: lapce.dev I'm tired of every application being another Elextron wrapper with outdated versions having issues. VSCodium for me literally takes hundreds of MBs for just a small like ~20 files project and the native Wayland support is still lacking big time. It's time we go back to native applications!

I contribute to Umbraco every so often because we use it at work and think they should get some help because it's been really useful for us. The community is very friendly and the devs are appreciative of good quality pull requests.

Some projects are kind of underwhelming. You can watch your PR you spent multiple nights on go completely unnoticed, without even a "thanks, we're getting around to checking this." I don't mind when it's some guy with a hobby project but I'm talking about projects run by companies.

I might look at Lemmy soon. I've been looking to help with something I actually have some personal stake in. It's hard to put effort in when you don't use it.