I built my own color-scheme for VS Code

I’ve been messing around with color palettes for a while, and I finally put together something I’m proud of: Eclipse Dawn (softer dark) and Eclipse Midnight (deeper dark).

The idea was to take some inspiration from Eclipse’s vibe but modernize it — better contrast, softer on the eyes, and consistent syntax highlighting that feels balanced for long "starring" sessions.

If anyone wants to give it a shot it's **here**, and as the time goes I'm adding more themes to the stuff I use.

https://redd.it/1nn2jyz
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CS student & open source contributor – seeking advice and connections

Hi everyone,

I’m Aniket, a third year CS student with a focus on AI/ML, and I love working on open source.
I’ve contributed to projects such as :)

Pandas

Python

JAX-ml

TensorFlow Quantum

Statsmodels

Academic Software Foundation

GitHub: https://github.com/Aniketsy

While I’ve gained valuable experience, I’m looking forward to connecting with seasoned contributors to learn and grow :-

Understand how to make more impactful contributions.

Seek advice on career growth through open source.

Learn how open source involvement can align with industry roles (internships, research, or full-time).

If you've been on this journey, I'd appreciate your insights. I'm also open to connecting with other students and contributors exploring similar paths.

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to hearing from you!

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CodeRabbit Commits 1 Million to Open Source Software Sponsorships.
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/coderabbit-commits-1-million-to-open-source

https://redd.it/1nnglco
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Looking for testers: Self-Hosted File Converter, OCR, Transcriber, TTS

Hey, I've been spending the last few days building a self-hosted file converter with some added support for ocr, tts, and stt. This is not revolutionary, since it just wraps many tools into a webui but I couldn't find any alternatives (ConvertX is nice but fails a lot and has clunky ui).
It comes with OIDC support and pre-built Docker images!

https://github.com/LoredCast/filewizard
https://hub.docker.com/r/loredcast/filewizard

Please check it out, it's still early development and I need people testing functionality since there are A LOT of formats to potentially test out.




https://redd.it/1nnitni
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How to responsibly hand over maintainership of my open-source project?

Hi everyone,

I’m the maintainer of QRCoder, a .NET library for generating QR codes. After several years, I’ve reached a point where I can no longer properly maintain the project:

I haven’t developed in C# for years, so I’ve lost touch with the ecosystem. (In my main job I switched to Python in 2021)
I’ve become frustrated with the increasingly harsh tone and high expectations from some users.

Because of this, I’d like to step down and hand the project over to someone who has the motivation and technical expertise to continue it. However, I’m unsure how to best approach the transition. Some options I’ve thought about:

1. Adding a new maintainer to my repo – but would someone really want to maintain it if I’m still technically the “owner”?
2. Transferring the repo to a new owner – but I worry about trust: someone could misuse it (e.g., distributing malicious code or rewriting history to claim the work as theirs).
3. Letting someone fork it – and then I’d archive my repo and link to the fork.

I also don’t know the best way to find a trustworthy new maintainer. Would simply putting a note in the README and issues be enough? Should I try to "vet" the new maintainer somehow?

Has anyone here gone through this before? How did you responsibly hand over your project without it being abused?

Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

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AutoCommit bash noscript
https://autocommit.skedia.io/

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Join the Parkinson Helper Phone App Project!

Hi Devs,

I’m not a Swift expert—my background is mainly in Python—and I’ve leaned heavily on CLI AI tools to develop Parkinson Helper into a functional MVP for Parkinson’s patients. I rely on a spec driven approach, with a progressive build, test, and next step methodology. I do apologize if the code or structure doesn’t yet meet typical mobile app standards; this was a "figure it out" effort driven by necessity.

Did searched the App Store for a tool to support Parkinson’s patients but found none that fully addressed their needs for complex tasks like dynamic medication scheduling, task management, and blood pressure monitoring. Thus, the decision to built Parkinson Helper..

This open-source iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) MVP currently offers: dynamic medication schedules, daily task checklists, adaptive UI, blood pressure tracking with graphs, historical data, text-to-speech, and on-device privacy via Core Data. It’s localized in English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, with plans to support more languages.

We need your help to scale this community-driven project! Priorities include:

1. **Critical** | Upgrading the Medication Profile system to Core Data for multiple profiles, with a workflow to securely download profiles in CSV format to the device.
2. Expanding support to Android and other OS ecosystems.
3. Adding more language localizations.
4. Integrating onboard AI for data summaries (e.g., task completion rates, BP trends).
5. Implementing computer vision to auto-capture blood pressure readings (replacing manual input).

Join us on GitHub: https://github.com/parkinsonhelper/parkinson-helper/blob/main/README.md
Check out our intro video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES8kmNoG8FQ.
Let’s empower Parkinson’s patients worldwide together!

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Getting Started Advice

Hey everybody,

I'm looking for advice on how to get started with my open-source project. I have professional SDE experience and some experience contributing to open-source projects. However, this is the first open-source project I'll be managing, so I just want to make sure I don't screw up anything too badly. Some concrete questions I have are:

* What are the *must-have files* (e.g., LICENSE, README, [CONTRIBUTING.md](http://CONTRIBUTING.md), CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT.md) that make a repo contributor-friendly?
* How do you keep track of features/general project management? Is just using GitHub good enough, or should I also use something else like Trello?

* How do I encourage the first few contributors to join and stick around?

* How much structure (roles, rules, decision-making) should I add early on vs. letting it evolve naturally?
* How do you decide the appropriate license, or does it not matter very much?
* What are some mistakes y'all made that I could possibly learn from?
* Any other advice?

It's an open-source app that helps you stay connected by reminding you to reach out to friends. It's basically just one of those personal CRM apps, but I think all the apps suck right now, and the idea is so simple it's not even worth monetizing. I just want a good app that helps people stay in touch, that is free for everyone. I won't post the link since I don't want it to seem like I'm promoting too hard, but if you're interested, just HMU :)



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Elasticsearch Was Never a Database
https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database

https://redd.it/1nnvpwb
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I built an open-source UI library because every other one looks the same.

If you don't want to put much effort and time into designing your websites, It's hard to build something unique looking these days. Most of the UI libraries out here are very generic and hard to distinguish from each other.

So when I started getting into Retro/Neobrutalist design system, I wanted to build my personal website with this design. But I couldn't find a UI library that fit what I was looking for, So I start building my own!

Welcome to RetroUI, The UI library that let's you build unique and playful websites.

Github Repository: https://github.com/Logging-Stuff/retroui



https://redd.it/1nnxaxy
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Free open source prediction market platform: v0.0.4 just released
https://github.com/openpredictionmarkets/socialpredict

https://redd.it/1nny495
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I thought I understood the appeal of open source -- but I don't.

My biggest problem is the license and everyone's weird dogma around it. If I spent years working on a beautiful powerful piece of software (not just some random npm package), but still wanted to distribute it for free for the community to use, I should be able to do so, yes. Nobody stops you there. But the problem is commercial use and this is where I start to disagree with most of the open source community. I need some arguments to help win me back here because I just don't understand it lol.


Here's my problem: If I make a really great piece of software, and distribute it under Apache or MIT for example, who's to stop Google or Microsoft or some other company take my software, strip the UI and write their own branded UI wrapper around it and call it their own? Now everyone uses what's really software and loves the company for it, and all the blood sweat and tears and YEARS worth of work that went into it now goes basically unnoticed in that domain. I don't mind people using my software for commercial purposes. Even using it under the hood / behind the scenes is fine like an internal tool to help their operations, totally cool. But when you brand the software as your own and start acting like it's your product, that's when I have a problem.

It's not about money. I don't care about making money. All I ask is for RECOGNITION of my work. I don't understand how people can be so weird about this. Like it's like asking for artists to publish all of their work for free with no credits to their work? I don't get it? Why would anyone want this? I understand wanting free software, I understand wanting software more accessible, I understand wanting to see the code of what you are running to make sure it respects your privacy and isn't doing shady stuff. TOTALLY GET IT. But the commercial parts are where I start to disconnect from you guys lol.

https://redd.it/1no2hrg
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Check my booking app build with supabase

I build booking app with supabase 1 year before you can check it out here
https://github.com/boyhax/manazl.site

Supabase is amazing backend but currently I shifted to convex because of more control of every thing from flow of data to security and all logic is in backend instead of client side like when using supabase .


Let me know your opinion .



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New Open Source Project: Complete Admin Dashboard Template for Modern Web Apps
https://github.com/silicondeck/shadcn-dashboard-landing-template

https://redd.it/1nodsdv
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I made yet another docker registry UI
https://github.com/eznix86/docker-registry-ui

https://redd.it/1nofaek
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Blogr v0.2.0: Added Obsidian Theme Support (Thanks Reddit!)

I've added Obsidian theme support to Blogr, a Rust-based static site generator. You can now use any Obsidian community theme CSS to style your blog.

# How it works

It's pretty straightforward:

# Switch to the Obsidian theme
blogr theme set obsidian

# Grab any Obsidian community theme (example: the popular Minimal theme)
curl -o static/obsidian.css https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal/HEAD/obsidian.css

# Build and deploy
blogr build && blogr deploy

# About Blogr

Blogr is a fast static site generator written in Rust that focuses on simplicity and developer experience. It builds quickly, includes a terminal editor with live preview, and deploys to GitHub Pages with a single command.

Project: https://github.com/bahdotsh/blogr

Install: cargo install blogr-cli

The theme system is designed to be extensible, so additional theme integrations are possible based on interest.

https://redd.it/1nof98j
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I want alternative of vlc.

To play all kind of video files and support all high resolution, inbuilt subnoscripts download for movies, and all the basic features I tried mvp but it doesn't have inbuilt subnoscripts downloader.
Edit: windows 11

https://redd.it/1noiew2
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Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship

https://redd.it/1noiij1
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My opensource sms gateway just crossed 10k users

About a year ago, I shared a small project here: an open-source SMS gateway that lets you send/receive texts using any android phone.

Today, it just passed **10,000 users**

Some fun stats:

* \~5 million SMS sent & received so far
* Users across 90+ countries
* 2k+ github stars and counting

I built this because I wanted a cost-effective alternative to twillio or other sms APIs. Turns out a lot of people here wanted the same thing.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you can check it out here:

site: [https://textbee.dev](https://textbee.dev)
github: [https://github.com/vernu/textbee](https://github.com/vernu/textbee)

https://redd.it/1nommo8
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Open Source Vetters: Audit my E2EE location sharing app?

Hi /opensource

So we're a two person team behind a FOSS app called Grid, offering private and E2EE location sharing on Google and Apple stores (with self hosting also available - our website here). For our backend, we're currently using Matrix Synapse. Little background: We created the app in response to growing personal anger watching our privacy and data being increasingly exploited and infringed upon. We wanted to start contributing to ethical tech that aims to preserve and protect our rights vs being exploitative for profit.

We're open source (github here) and looking to find some folks who have some spare time who would want to audit us! We're fully transparent and want this project to be a tool that provides genuine value to the folks who use it by making it the best version possible.

Some things we have on the docket of our upcoming roadmap: Twilio alternative/remove need for phone number altogether, SOS features, Aurora store compatible version, more testing with GrapheneOS for improved compatibility, and more.

If you're someone reading this and you don't have time or don't want to audit us, please do check us out and let us know what you think! We welcome all questions and suggestions!!




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Termo - SSH Client for Windows

Hey folks 👋

I’ve been working on a side project called Termo, and I think some of you might relate to why I built it.

At work, I often have to manage a ton of different connections, and believe it or not, many of them still rely on plain old passwords 😅. The existing Windows (MobaXterm,mRemoteNG...) tools out there just weren’t cutting it for me — they feel outdated, packed with features I don’t need.

So I decided to build something that matched what I was looking for:

⚡ Fast and simple — I just want to connect quickly without 10 extra steps

🎨 Modern user experience — closer to today’s software standards

🖥️ Lightweight but reliable — no unnecessary bloat, just what’s needed

🔓 Open source — built with Tauri (Rust backend, Vue + Tailwind frontend), so you can dig in or contribute

For me, the main goal was making connections easy, fast.

If that sounds useful to you, check it out here 👉 https://github.com/seon22break/Termo

Would love to hear what you think — whether it’s feedback, ideas, or just “hey this works/this sucks.” Any contribution helps!


This is a alternative to mRemoteNG,MobaXterm...

https://redd.it/1noonrl
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