What open source project(s) are you working on?

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.

Oooooh, that sounds and looks promising! Any public repo I could follow yet? :)
- Soon! :)
- As promised. I'll do a proper announcement tomorrow, just wanted to get it out the door today.
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.
That's an awesome idea, hopefully some reddit apps devs can get onboard.
- Now with threaded comments:

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 ^^
Oh my god you're foosil? I've never met a celebrity before!!!
- Yep, foosel aka Gina Häußge, that's me ^^
  I’ve never met a celebrity before!!!
  I wouldn't say you have now, because I don't consider myself one, but if it makes you happy, I won't judge 😂
OctoPrint is good stuff. I don't always have it set up as I usually just use SD cards with my Ender 3, but I appreciate the work that's gone into OctoPrint. It is a nice interface for 3D printing and the plugin system is great, especially the bed leveling plugin.
- Thanks! 😊 I consider the plugin system one of my best ideas - it's causing me a ton of grey hair, but it also has allowed people to implement stuff that I'd never could have dreamed of and/or been able to merge in core. And I don't have to maintain all of that either 😂
Oooh that's awesome, I use OctoPrint all the time! Great work!
- Glad to hear it 😊
Oh nice, I still have my OctoPrint server set up on my Raspberry Pi attached to the other side of my Ender-3 (which has sat neglected for a couple of years I'm sad to say). Was really happy when I discovered it as it made using the printer so much better than constantly running back and forth with my USB stick.
I even made a remix of an OctoPrint monitor so I could keep an eye on progress - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4055922
- Hah, that is awesome! I originally wrote it because I was annoyed of having to keep the printer tethered to my PC and pray that a Windows update would not kill my print job - that was before SD cards let alone USB sticks became the norm, so it was even worse 😅 It has since taken over my life 😬
I loved OctoPrint when I used it. Unfortunately, I switched to SLA printers and their support for anything open source really sucks.
- SLA printing sucks I agree, the software on the SLA side is absolute trash. The only exception is PrusaSlicer which does have SLA support, but only for Prusa's official machines. However, there is a workaround - customize the Prusa machine profile to fit your machine and then convert the output file with UVTools (the other great FOSS SLA printing tool). These two tools make SLA printing tolerable.
Thank you for OctoPrint! I love it!

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.

https://openrgb.org

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.
- Thank you, will check this out later.
Tagging off OpenStreetMap to say I also contribute to Organic Maps, the best mobile app for OSM in my opinion.
- Organic Maps is my main navigation app past approx 3 years now. Have all my places bookmarked within it. It's not the best navigation app, but i am optimistic because the dev team are doing plentiful. Meanwhile the progress can be followed at their GitHub page.
  Soon it will work with Android Auto.

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!

I use Rocky! Thanks a lot @Leigh ! Great work. I wish Rocky/Alma wouldn't go in the way of redhat with dropping support of rpm for libreoffice but I know it's a pipedream.
- I’m glad you enjoy it :) They’re following what Red Hat is doing because they’re intended to mimic precisely RHEL. We used to say that Rocky is a “bug for bug” mirror of RHEL. So they have no choice but to follow suit.
Well thank you! Also congratulations on being the only distro that I first heard about in a corporate environment. It's usually me trying to pitch Linux, not the other way around.

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.

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'd love to be working on one, but I'm a messed up decaying byproduct of depression who lost all the will and skills.

I feel you man .. tbmnaoseiquemsou

I maintain and develop many GTK themes for Linux, currently working on making them work properly in GTK4 and (hopefully) libadwaita

Here's a preview of what they look like

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

Got a link? That sounds amazing!
- Of course! Documentation and build guides/BOMs are what I am working on now. I never realized how much of a pain a full assembly guide is 😂
  https://github.com/JustEnoughDucks/LibreMiG-S

I am the owner of repository called swizzin -- it's a collection of shell scripts aimed primarily at installing applications in the "seedbox" category on Debian and Ubuntu servers.

It's not a particularly glamorous project, being written in the majority of bash, but over the 8 years of me maintaining this script and keeping up with the intricacies of linux, my skills as a Linux Sysadmin went from amateur hobbyist to self-employed-entrepreneur to gainfully-employed. It's been a crazy ride altogether and never would have imagined that starting to work on a hobbyist project could have landed me an actual career.

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

I work on Apache Superset for my day job, it's a BI tool for data exploration and visualization. It's a big project with 100+ committers, so a lot of the challenges are about managing people and communicating effectively.

DJ is a "metrics platform that allows users to define metrics and the data models behind them using SQL, serving as a semantic layer on top of a physical data warehouse." The project is still in its infancy but growing fast.

My favorite project is shillelagh, a Python library that lets you query APIs using SQL, eg:

    
SELECT *
FROM "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_rN3lm0R_bU3NemO0s9pbFkY5LQPcuy1pscv8ZXPtg8/edit#gid=0"

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... 🤔

I'm practicing making projects with a game I made in Godot called Moody City. It's a race-against-the-timer game inspired by my first car that overheated to death and you drive around collecting jugs of coolant. My goal is to make it modular and moddable, and to throw in a little bit of (almost) everything as far as features in Godot goes, stuff like save data, accessing external folders for stuff like user-generated maps, etc. So far I have the main menu working which displays basic save game stats and a levels screen that scans the maps folder and creates a button for each one, a self-contained player controller that can be placed in any scene and contains the player itself plus GUI, and one basic level. The whole project is on Github (linked above) with credits to the assets I didn't make myself and code contributions. Once I get occlusion culling and an external map loading feature done I'm going to make an official release!

I'm one of the maintainers of Task and have been working on it for the last year or so. It's an alternative to task runner/build tools like Make, but written in Go.

Ooooh, thank you SO much for your work! I discovered Task a few months ago and it has been a tremendous help! In fact I just fired off an image build through it ^^
- Glad you're enjoying it! Always good to see new users discovering the project
I love Task! Thanks for your work! I've recently been attempting to add a feature to it related to this issue. It's looking good so far, but still needs a bit of polish. I regularly use Task, and this is the only thing that I feel Task is missing to become the ideal self-descriptive task runner.
- Glad you're enjoying it! It's been a really rewarding project to work on and comments like this really help motivate me. There is definitely still a lot of work to do to refine the project, including the issue you mentioned. Hopefully the recent breaking changes proposal that we published will help us to fix some of the bigger pain points. Blog post on this coming soon!

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.

Not long ago I merged a PR in ratbag, a mouse configuration tool, adding support for the mouse I own. Currently, I'm adding IPv6 support to Concourse, a Continuous Integration server, and adding some features to Taskfile, a Makefile alternative.

Hey 👋🏾 I use ratbag and it's pretty amazing so thank you :)
- Thanks, although I haven't contributed much to the core of ratbag. I only added drivers for the Mars Gaming MM4 mouse, which you're unlikely to have heard of. Thanks should be given to the maintainers, which did a great job in mentoring and reviewing my PR!

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.

https://buskill.in/

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.

https://www.buskill.in/3d-print-2023-04/

...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:
  https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/attribution.html#similar-projects

To make a start I'm currently part of the Pulsar Edit team which is a community of like minded people that came together after the sunset of the Atom text editor to fork and improve it and get it up to date.

The project is almost a year old now as we are are just a few days off the anniversary of the above sunsetting blog post.

In what feels like a much shorter amount of time that it has been, we managed to get the entire (closed source) package backend re-implemented, get a website and documentation site up and running, get a whole bunch of improvements to the neglected Atom project going and generally having a great time interacting with the community who came together in the spirit of open source.

I love Pulsar, you're doing great (and quick!) work
I used atom a lot. It nice to see the alternativea emerging, so we don't have to rely on vs code / vscodium. I will for sure check this out

Most recent coding open source work was for OpenLibrary.org, which is a super inviting place to jump in and contribute.

But I have been maintaining my awesome list about social enterprises: https://github.com/RayBB/awesome-social-enterprise

I also started a community here for it: https://lemmy.ml/c/socialenterprise

I don't think they're like some grand solution or something but I like the way they move us (less dependence on the rich donating money and more emphasis on helping the community). That being said, there is a lot of "green washing" type organizations that try to use the label without living up to it.

I am building a project within the Fediverse. I believe in the fediverse but the gatekeeping and HOA behaviour gets tiring. So, I’m building a project that is open to all kinds of users. Those that want a more comprehensive user experience similar to what they got with big social without all of the ick and those that largely like things they way they are but want a better UI.

What like a Reddit style link aggregator? Or more akin to something else?

I've started contributing to logseq, and I hope to start making contributions to castopod

Both are projects that I'm actively using, and I want to help them improve!

I'm one of the programmers and maintainers of the Jellyfin Roku client.

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.

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.

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.

but my desktops are all Linux so I wrote my own. Isn't this always the way?

So far just contributing to other projects whenever I find something, missing. My main project that I am currently starting to work on is a Wayland Tiling Compositor written in Rust, but so far I am still in very early stages. I really like how Wayland works but so far all the compositors are lacking something I want, closest to what I want is DWL, but it still lacks some things I want.

Since I just started my Lemmy instance and it was a major pain, I'll probably work on some better setup documentation and scripting.

I'm working on osintbuddy, my vision of a Maltego/Palantir alternative :) https://github.com/jerlendds/osintbuddy

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

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 work maintaining Husky at this very moment!

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

https://programming.dev/post/442419

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'm setting myself to contribute to OpenScan, though I've also developed a few little flutter widgets here and there for hobby spaces I participate in.

I'm working to make a FOSS SHAREit alternative, that also has spoofing capability with the said app.

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 — 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 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.

I'm planning on writing a wrapper for Podman and systemd to make it possible to use kubectl commands to deploy and maintain applications. The idea is a middleground between Podman (or Docker) to real Kubernetes like k3s...

Not sure if anyone (even me) would find it interesting or useful. But a good excuse to learn more Go.

Sounds interesting! It could be useful for self hosting apps without the complexity of k8s.
- My thoughts as well. Podman + systemd is a really solid combination for small scale deployments like homelabs, abstracting it a bit would make it even more approachable.

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 do like Lapce and I'm fairly active on the Discord, I was considering using it as my Atom replacement intially before I joined the Pulsar team. Excited to see what Floem ends up bringing to it, lots of UI stuff put on hold because it was just too hard in Druid.
- Definitely, it's already a great code editor, but it still needs some work to be a good ~IDE replacement. But it's looking great and the progress is impressively fast.
I started trying out lapce today and it is awesome. I managed to get the css and html language servers set up and connected which seem to work well. I was wondering how I would go about setting up automatic insertion of corresponding closing tags (I don't know what is the official name of this feature) in lapce like in code?
- Honestly, I don't know if that is a problem yet. It's still very much WIP, but someone might be willing to work on an extension for closing tags if you open an issue! :)

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

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.

Umbraco is a fantastic open source project, as well as a great example of how open source can support a profitable company as well, through support, training, and certification programs.
I don't use it as much these days, as its not part of my day job, and for my hobby projects I'm using static site generators, I appreciate what Umbraco has, and how they do it. It really is great software, for users and developers.
- It set my expectations a little too high I'd say! I really appreciate how they turned it into a profitable product too and it shows they have commitment to service when most of their secret sauce can be used by anyone.
  I think they now have a headless version called Heartcore but, as far as I know, it's a proprietary SaaS solution. Shame, that might have been of interest to you otherwise. I also use static site generators personally, it's less to worry about.

None. Though I've been fucking around with FreeCAD a lot and would like to share some designs if I finish anything useful.

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

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...

https://github.com/neytjs/FreeMazes3D/

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? 😂