So in the spirit of this community and not just to focus on the Reddit… issues… I thought it might be nice to get a topical conversation going in here.
Basically, what open source projects are you currently working on or are you heavily involved with?
I think it would be nice to see what projects people have on the go, get some publicity out there and otherwise talk about stuff that we should be discussing here.
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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.
@TranslatorBot@lemmygrad.ml Bulgarian
:::: спойлер Превод Струва ми се, че това е малко изтъркано, но през последните няколко месеца допринесох за потребителския интерфейс на Леми и клиента Typescript. Също така направих библиотека за ботове на Typescript за Lemmy.
Ще демонстрирам един от моите ботове в отговор. :::
Този текст е преведен с помощта на DeepL.
I’m gonna have to do something so it doesn’t mangle the spoiler.
Want to get into Jellyfin development soon too. 🙂
Want to get into Jellyfin development soon too. 🙂
Awesome! We’d love to have ya’ join us.
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:
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 iostatwould be if it existed — 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 — 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
timein 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 blessingunsafecode for platforms I don’t use is scary. Moral support is welcomed.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.
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! 😂 And you just gave me an incredibly dumb idea. How about a SCUMM engine randomizer? 😂
I’ve thought a lot about doing a randomizer for Groovie engine games, mostly The 7th Guest, but I can’t really think of a way to make it fun or interesting, the whole game is video files so it’s not very flexible
a SCUMM game might work, some items could definitely be swapped around, but idk if it would amount to much cause there wouldn’t be a ton of permutations possible
I don’t know enough about the SCUMM engine to know if this even makes any kind of sense, but could you randomize NPCs/connections between locations?
I haven’t looked into how that engine works, but I think it should be possible to move characters around, and change the connections between maps (usually called Entrance Randomization)
but again the games usually keep the scope restricted, not many things are available at any given time, which means not a lot of possibilities for moving things around
but some day I might give it a shot
I maintain and develop many GTK themes for Linux, currently working on making them work properly in GTK4 and (hopefully) libadwaita
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.
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.
Oooooh, that sounds and looks promising! Any public repo I could follow yet? :)
As promised. I’ll do a proper announcement tomorrow, just wanted to get it out the door today.
Perhaps you should make a community for this!
Perhaps I should… There we go: !tafkars@feddit.de
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 😅 I warned Daniel that I’d drop that if they got me on for that topic ^^
Thank you for OctoPrint! I love it!
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
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
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…
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? 😂
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.
