SerpApi MCP Server for Google and other search engine results
https://github.com/serpapi/serpapi-mcp

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Not good at understanding licences - Can I include flac.exe along with my compiled freeware?

Hello,

I have made a free Windows desktop utility that can use flac.exe (which I think is open source) (it may someday use a library but for now it's flac.exe ). I think it's approximately a decade old now.

I do not plan to make my own project open-source. On one hand I admire open-source, on the other hand I'm not comfortable sharing my source code/this code to the public. Though, it will remain free, not collect any user data or such. It does accept donations but I don't receive any for this particular project. I'm not even sure if it has actual users other than myself and I don't really care.

I have various understandings of open-source licences:

I think that sometimes you cannot include an open-source tool along with your project if you project itself it not open source (I think that FLAC falls into this category)
I think that sometimes you can include an open-source tool if the user is free to replace with another version of that tool, that might have been recompiled from the tool's original source code. (That would work for my project... but I think that's something I read about C++ Qt license and not FLAC.)

flac.exe is currently not include along with the project file, it's up to the user to point to their version of flac.exe .

Can someone who understands these better explain me if I could legally include flac.exe along with a freeware?

(Also, I do not want to share the project publicly.)

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OpenQuestCapture - an open source, MIT licensed Meta Quest 3D Reconstruction pipeline

Hey all! I just released OpenQuestCapture, an MIT licensed Quest 3 app and pipeline for capturing spatial data from Meta Quest sensors for use for 3D reconstruction.

Why:

Meta recently launched Horizon Hyperscape, which produces impressive 3D reconstructions from Quest 3 sensor data. But all your data stays locked in their ecosystem. You don't control it, can't export it, and can't process it yourself. In fact, just 2 weeks ago they significantly reduced the quality of peoples' reconstructions without any notice.

I think that's the wrong approach. Spatial data should belong to the user.

What it does:

OpenQuestCapture captures Quest 3 depth maps, RGB images, and pose data to generate point clouds. While you're capturing, it shows you a live 3D point cloud visualization so you can see what areas (and from which angles) you've covered.

Then, the repo also has a helper noscript that converts that raw data into to COLMAP format for Gaussian Splatting or whatever 3D reconstruction pipeline you prefer. You can run everything locally.

Here's the GitHub repo: [https://github.com/samuelm2/OpenQuestCapture](https://github.com/samuelm2/OpenQuestCapture)

It's still pretty new and barebones, and the raw capture files are quite large. The quality isn't quite as good as HyperScape yet, but I'm hoping this might push them to be more open with Hyperscape data. At minimum, it's something the community can build on and improve.

There's still a lot to improve upon for the app. Here are some of the things that are top of mind for me:

* An intermediary step of the reconstruction post-process is a high quality, Matterport-like triangulated colored 3D mesh. That itself could be very valuable as an artifact for users. So maybe there could be more pipeline development around extracting and exporting that.
* Also, the visualization UX could be improved. I haven't found a UX that does an amazing job at showing you exactly what (and from what angles) you've captured. So if anyone has any ideas or wants to contribute, please feel free to submit a PR!
* The raw quest sensor data files are massive right now. So, I'm considering doing some more advanced Quest-side compression of the raw data. I'm probably going to add QOI compression to the raw RGB data at capture time, which should be able to losslessly compress the raw data by 50% or so.

If anyone wants to take on one of these (or any other cool idea!), would love to collaborate. And, if you decide to try it out, let me know if you have any questions or run into issues. Or file a Github issue. Always happy to hear feedback!

https://redd.it/1phj040
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Need honest opinion

Hi there! I’d love your honest opinion, roast me if you want, but I really want to know what you think about my open source framework:

https://github.com/entropy-flux/TorchSystem

And the documentation:

https://entropy-flux.github.io/TorchSystem/

(https://entropy-flux.github.io/TorchSystem/)

The idea of this idea of creating event driven IA training systems, and build big and complex pipelines in a modular style, using proper programming principles.

I’m looking for feedback to help improve it, make the documentation easier to understand, and make the framework more useful for common use cases. I’d love to hear what you really think , what you like, and more importantly, what you don’t.

https://redd.it/1phiiru
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OpsOrch – Unified API for Incidents, Logs, Metrics, and Tickets
https://www.opsorch.com

https://redd.it/1phom73
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Beliarg is a dark, gamified productivity and finance management ecosystem.

This is an open source project - free to use, modify, and distribute. It has been reforged into a Full-Stack Web Application (PWA). It combines a React 19 frontend (built with Vite) with a Node.js & PostgreSQL backend to ensure your data survives even the apocalypse)). It features a unique "Hellish" aesthetic, turning daily tasks into "Chains", expenses into "Sacrifices", and habits into "Rituals". https://github.com/D371L/beliarg feel free to leave any feedback

https://redd.it/1phplp9
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RANDEVU - Universal Probabilistic Daily Reminder Coordination System for Anything
https://github.com/TypicalHog/randevu

https://redd.it/1phrmw4
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merox-erudite – MIT-licensed Astro blogging theme with newsletter, comments, analytics & AdSense built-in

I just published an open-source Astro blogging theme that’s now part of the official Astro themes directory:
https://astro.build/themes/details/merox-erudite/

It’s a fork of the excellent astro-erudite, but with a lot of the “real-world” stuff already implemented and ready to use:

Brevo/Sendinblue newsletter integration
Lazy-loaded Disqus comments
Google Analytics + Umami support
Structured data (FAQPage, HowTo, etc.)
Google AdSense ready
Enhanced homepage (experience timeline + skills showcase)

100% free and open-source under the MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/meroxdotdev/merox-erudite
Live example (my own blog): https://merox-erudite.vercel.app/ and https://merox.dev

https://redd.it/1pi1sib
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Built a tool to catch package.json/package-lock.json inconsistencies before npm ci fails

Hey everyone! I just published a new npm package that I've been working on, and I'd love to get some feedback from the community.

What it does:

The tool analyzes your package.json and package-lock.json files to detect inconsistencies before you run `npm ci`. If you've ever had `npm ci` fail because of mismatches between these files, this is designed to catch those issues early and explain exactly what's wrong.

Current features:

* Compares package.json and package-lock.json for inconsistencies
* Provides detailed warnings about what doesn't match
* Checks for Git installation in your project
* Verifies npm version compatibility with package-lock.json's version

Planned features:

* Automatic fixes for detected inconsistencies (suggestions/PRs welcome!)

Why I built this:

`npm ci` is great for reproducible builds, but the error messages when it fails aren't always clear about *why* your lock file doesn't match your package.json. I wanted something that could be run as a pre-CI check or git hook to catch these issues locally.

This also can be added to your CI/CD workflow, and prevent from deploying in case of an error.

Installation:

npm install npm-ci-guard

GitHub: [https://github.com/yaronpen/npm-ci-guard](https://github.com/yaronpen/npm-ci-guard)

I'm still early in development and would really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or contributions. What features would make this more useful for your workflow?

https://redd.it/1pi1qvo
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Wrapper tool for Google Drive seamless integration into Linux

rclone4gdrive is an open-source tool for seamless, automated, and transparent two-way Google Drive backup on Linux.

rclone4gdrive eliminates the hassle of configuring and maintaining routinely cloud syncs by providing true "set-and-forget" synchronization directly from your Linux filesystem to your personal Google Drive.

GitHub: https://github.com/thisisnotgcsar/rclone4gdrive

This is a project I built in my free time, and it’s one of my first contributions to the open-source community. If you notice anything that can be improved or corrected, feel free to let me know or open a pull request. Any help you give to improve this tool also helps me grow as a developer, so your contributions are truly appreciated!

https://redd.it/1pi2dva
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I built a distributed key-value store in Rust (Raft + 2PC + custom storage engine)
https://github.com/whispem/minikv

https://redd.it/1pi3rtr
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Built a container management + logs viewer that finally feels right to me

hi everyone, i have been doing lots of self-hosting and running things off a vps, the most difficult thing i had to live with was all the time having to ssh into a server to debug things going on, read logs or restart containers.


So I built LogDeck. It's fast (handles 10k+ logs without breaking a sweat), supports multi-host management from one UI, has auth built in, streaming, log downloads, etc


Would love to have your feedback.

github.com/AmoabaKelvin/logdeck

logdeck.dev

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DataKit: your all in browser data studio is open source now

Hello all. I'm super happy to announce DataKit https://datakit.page/ is open source from today! 
https://github.com/Datakitpage/Datakit

DataKit is a browser-based data analysis platform that processes multi-gigabyte files (Parquet, CSV, JSON, etc) locally (with the help of duckdb-wasm). All processing happens in the browser - no data is sent to external servers. You can also connect to remote sources like Motherduck and Postgres with a datakit server in the middle.
I've been making this over the past couple of months on my side job and finally decided its the time to get the help of others on this. I would love to get your thoughts, see your stars and chat around it!

https://redd.it/1pi4zul
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Recommendation for privacy friendly open source software to create a (stolen) bike register?

Bike registers such as bikeindex (US) bikeregister (UK), bicycode (FR) or mybike (BE) prevent bike theft, increase chances of recovering stolen bikes and help to identify thieves. But they are not interoperable and custom solutions.

I wonder which open source privacy friendly solution could be used to create a similar 'open' register to be used by every country (or entrepreneur, bike theft insurance) which wants to use it. User would upload photo and denoscription (frame number, brand and model, colour etc., presumably in structured format), user could declare a bike 'stolen, and everybody (or just authorised users) could search/filter the list of stolen bikes by brand, frame number (fuzzy search) and then have an anonymous way to send a message to the owner of the stolen bike.

The solution should have a decent interface, not just a spreadsheet, and ideally not be easy to scrape/spam. And of course top protection of the private data.

Any sugggestions what would work best, and how much work would be needed to adapt it to the denoscription above?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

https://redd.it/1pi7ycs
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My Android opensource project: DayExam

A powerful Android application designed to help you efficiently parse your school paper and store in your phone, then you can study anywhere
It is simple but useful.
opensource at github, link: https://github.com/newerZGQ/day\_exam

or you can download it at fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.gorden.dayexam/

https://redd.it/1pi3n2g
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polluSensWeb - webhook support added

polluSensWeb is a lightweight web-based serial interface and charting tool for visualizing and logging data from UART pollution sensors (PM2.5, VOC, etc). 

No installs, no drivers — just plug it in and open the page.

As for now, by default, JSON  configuration supports the following sensors already (in the drop-down list in the web interface):

1. Panasonic SN-GCJA5
2. Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX
3. Air Master AM7 Plus
4. Plantower PMSA003-S
5. Plantower PS3003A
6. Plantower PMS1003
7. Plantower PMS5003
8. Plantower PMS7003
9. Plantower PMS6003
10. Plantower PMS9103
11. Plantower PMS3003
12. Nova PM SDS011
13. Sensirion SPS30
14. SHUYI SY210
15. TERA NextPM
16. SenseAir S8 004-0-0053
17. SenseAir S88 Residential
18. SenseAir S88 LP
19. SenseAir S88 GH
20. SenseAir K30
21. SenseAir K33
22. SenseAir eSENSE
23. SenseAir S8 004-0-0017
24. SenseAir K33 ICB
25. Sensirion SCD30
26. More coming soon...

PolluSensWeb just gained a powerful new feature - HTTP webhook support.

The app can now push every parsed sensor frame directly to any endpoint you choose, using customizable headers and JSON body templates.

The coolest part: both headers and body support placeholders (e.g., {{field:PM2_5}}, {{ts}}, or full field loops), letting you map sensor data into any API format without touching the code. This makes it dead-simple to forward PM readings into home automation systems, databases, online dashboards, or your own custom server.

Webhook requests can be triggered on every packet or at a user-defined interval, and a built-in “Test Send” button helps verify output instantly.

https://redd.it/1pibh6e
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Passless — a Virtual FIDO2 / Passkey device and client for Linux
https://github.com/pando85/passless

https://redd.it/1pibsmz
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I decided to open source my social platform project

Over the last few months I have been working on a project that allows you to spin up your own self-hosted social platform, complete with a web interface, iOS/Android client apps, and a robust backend.

https://axionnode.com

It is similar to Reddit in terms of functionality (communities, posts, user accounts, comments, upvote/downvote), except now with it being open source, you can customize it for your personal or corporate use, and then run your own version of a social platform.

The frontend is React Native using Expo, and you can build clients for iOS and Android easily. On the backend it uses Django / Python.

I originally designed it to work seamlessly with Google Cloud Platform (using Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, etc), but I’m hoping that others may assist me to make it cloud agnostic, and add improved video functionality support.

Thanks for checking it out. Fork away and let me know if anyone might want to contribute to it.

It has been a labour of love and a fun project to try and tackle.


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Rant I'm completing my first serious project but looking back it mostly feels a waste of time

I love technology and programming but as I'm approaching the release of my first "grown-up" open source software (a software needed by school in my local community and that probably will be adopted by many other school in my region since they all share that niche need) I wonder if open source programming is a worthy investment of my limited time.

I totally believe in the beauty of having open source software implemented with love (especially in this age of enshittification where even a simple app to split expenses is ad-filled to the brim) and in the importance of digital sovereignty the issue is... people around me (and I'm pretty sure around many of you) don't care about this nerd stuff and its totally okay but at the same time its very hard to stay motivated when people close to you perceives you as a loser who spends many nights each week staring at funny code or an idiot which could "make bank with apps" but wastes his time giving away his work for free.

The other big motivations which pushed me to embark in open source programming were the opportunity to upskill and improve at day job and the sheer fun in building something without the constraints I have at my 9-5 programming job but I'm gradually finding out that in jobs once you get your foot in the door "playing the game" and selling yourself is much more important than actual skills and while I had definitely many fun and creative moments writing my application I'm not sure they're worth the expenditure of mental energy they costed. Even surfing Reddit is fun but unlike programming it doesn't require significant effort so I may as well do that or... use that time and energy to do volunteering that actually benefit people around me in more immediate ways than "free custom school software", both makes much more sense from an utilitarian POV.

Said that even if at the moment I'm pretty demotivated what I'm planning to do is to stay disciplined, complete the project and give it the maintenance and bugfixes it needs (it's not a complex software so I don't expect many bugs), regardless if its going to be fun or unfun. I'm still grateful that I was trusted to do this project and I want to repay the trust with a good job.

I'm just wondering if it makes sense to keep programming as an hobby, I enjoy it and already had many other projects and stuff to learn in the pipeline but considering the negligible job benefits and "negative" social benefits maybe its better to invest that time in:

\- Stuff I still enjoy but takes less effort
\- Stuff which gives me more tangible benefits
\- Stuff which gives other people tangible benefits

https://redd.it/1pif5kv
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I built stay-active - keeps Microsoft Teams showing "Active" on macOS

Problem: Teams marks you "Away" after 5 minutes. No setting to change it.

Solution: A shell noscript that simulates natural activity (mouse + keyboard) at random intervals.

GitHub: https://github.com/sleekhost/stay-active

Tech: Bash + cliclick

Install: One curl command

Size: \~6KB

Would love feedback!

https://redd.it/1pibqzu
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Snapchat now charges for >5GB Memories — so I made a free open-source downloader that actually works

Snapchat now wants you to pay once your Memories exceed 5 GB, and their official export tool is unreliable — some files download, some don’t, and it still shows “100%” even when large parts are missing.
I built an open-source downloader that fixes this by parsing the memories_history.html, reliably fetching every memory, correcting timestamps, adding EXIF metadata, extracting overlays, retrying failed items, and cleaning duplicates.
If your Snapchat export is incomplete or inconsistent, this solves the problem properly.

Repo:
https://github.com/ManuelPuchner/snapchat-memories-downloader

https://redd.it/1pig90p
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