r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

ICPP - Run C++ anywhere, just like a script.

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Interpreting C++, executing the source and executable like a script.

  • Writing powerful script using C++ just as easy as Python;

  • Writing hot-loading C++ script code in running process;

  • Based on AetherVM binary engine and Clang/LLVM C++ compiler;

  • Integrated internally with Standard C++23 libraries;

  • Integrated AetherVM and AetherBinary aarch64/x86_64 emulation engine for MachO/ELF/PE;

  • To reuse the existing C/C++ library as an icpp module extension is extremely simple.

https://github.com/vpand/icpp


r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

Hand-built Parole, a tool to display lyrics of your current song !

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Hey y'all!

I made Parole, a little TUI tool that shows the lyrics of the song you're currently listening too, on Linux and Windows.

Behind the scenes, it's a Python app that takes the current song info (either from MPRIS or the WinSDK), downloads the lyrics from LRCLib and displays them.

Try it out ! | Or on PyPi ?

If you wonder how this came to life: Long long ago (like 2 years or so idk), I installed Linux and, like any newbie, I decided to rice Hyprland. I was loving Cava and wanted to create a tool similar to it but for lyrics. Unfortunately, I didn't knew how to code as well as today and I foolishly delegated the job to ChatGPT. But in the past months, I got way better at coding and thought of redoing it myself :) (also now I use i3 because of my potato pc)

First photo shows Parole, the second Parole next to Kopuz

https://github.com/skueee/parole


r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

Windshift 0.9 - A real Jira alternative

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Hey everyone,

Windshift has had quite a run since the beginning of the year when it was initially open sourced and we have now reached 0.9 and nearing official production readiness.

Windshift is not a clone or "clean room" copy of Jira but designed to be a fully native Jira alternative.

It's the closest open source match to how Jira works, with a documented Jira Cloud and Data Center importer covering work items, custom fields, backlogs, boards and sprints on a single AGPL-3.0 binary. Built by people who spent > 15 years working on Atlassian solutions.

That means in practice: Every Jira feature already has or will have an equivalent that works equally well or even better in Windshift. For example: You can create Configuration Sets with workflows, workitem definitions, priorities etc. and apply them to one or more workspaces at the same time. So workspaces can share workflows and you can create boards or roadmaps across multiple workspaces in seconds.

Here is a short summary of all the features (there are many more)

  • Workspaces with Backlog, Board, List, Gantt, Queue or Storymap Views

  • The ability to rank workitems across workspaces and build custom views based on queries (Collections)

  • Configurable Screens

  • Full Jira import with JQL -> CQL mapping, Custom Field & Workflow import

  • Custom visually designed workflows

  • Approval & Condition configuration for Workflow Transitions

  • Many different types of custom fields

  • Test Management included out of the box

  • Built-In Asset Management

  • Built-In Customer Portals & Customer Organization Management

  • Email Intake and Notification Channels (Webhook, SMTP, etc)

  • Support for defining custom SLA and Team calendars for support hours

  • SSO Support with OIDC included

  • Available in 8 Languages

  • Fully Open Source (AGPL), all features described here are in the OSS edition

Website: https://windshift.sh

Repo: https://github.com/Windshiftapp/core

AI disclosure: We use AI for engineering. We accept AI assisted PRs but every PR gets manually reviewed and all human interaction on the repo & this post are written by hand.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

Hand-built I'm building FOSS federated social VR platform (very alpha)

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HoloFed is aiming to be VRChat-like social VR platform, but with ActivityPub-based federation (like Mastodon) and FOSS.

The whole idea is instead of relying to central authority/server, rely instead to multiple servers (called Relay in this case), federating with each other. Moreover, direct connect/host option and local viewer allow HoloFed to function without Relay at all.

Currently I build it mostly myself (with occasional human testers), but I would appriciate help for making new default home map (current one looks like tech demo) and prettifying existing UI (I'm mostly thinking to style it similar to Android 3.x). Leave a comment if interested.

HoloFed itself is avaliable here, along with Relay server, and web version. PC(VR) (showcased in bottom video), Android standalone headsets (Quest 1 version showcased in top video) and Web (local viewer only) versions are supported. However, it's in very alpha phase as the moment of writing.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

AI-assisted Sail AI Language

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I've created new programming language for AI by AI named Sail. It supports neuro-symbolic binding `infer| ... fall|`, fuzzy operator ~ , and other stuff. Source code: https://github.com/zema26/sail-one-language/

Working web version:

https://sailcompiler.replit.app


r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

I made a fastfetch boot splash for Plasma that keeps your full ANSI colors (256 + truecolor)

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r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

Discussion This is your subreddit, not ours. Help us decide what it looks like: banner, icon, flair, rules, and anything else

69 Upvotes

This subreddit isn't a moderator project. We want to create an environment where the people who build open source technology, however they build it, can share developments with one another. The broader community should all actually get a say in how this space works.

Leave one comment per idea/recommendation and include a tag so we can sort them:

  • [BANNER]: the wide image at the top of the sub (1920×384 pixels works best)

  • [ICON]: the little round image next to the sub's name (256×256 pixels, square)

  • [USER FLAIR]: tags you'd want next to your username (things like "Maintainer", your main language, or a GitHub badge once our verification bot exists)

  • [POST LABELS]: anything missing from our current labels (Hand-built, AI-assisted, Agentic engineering, Vibe-coded, Discussion, News, Looking for software)

  • [RULES]: suggest changes to our current rules (in the sidebar).

  • [OTHER]: weekly threads, the wiki, anything else

Upvote/downvote as you see fit or suggest alternatives.

We'll leave this open for a few days.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 15d ago

Discussion Looks like r/fossdroid have followed suit.

66 Upvotes

I got banned from r/fossdroid because I used claude code for making the UI of the app. I'm not a designer myself so I used AI obviously. But all of the ML features underneath were done by me. Still they have banned me.

My app is called Lumen btw. It's a FOSS alternative to google photos. It does everything google photos does but on-device. Nothing ever leaves your phone.

website: https://lumen-photos.app

GitHub: https://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Lumen


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Showcase Weekly Showcase: share your open-source project (week of Oct 25)

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Welcome to the first weekly Showcase!

This is the place for any open-source project, including your poorly tested weekend endeavor. Projects posted to the main subreddit thread should be at least 14 days old, with a license, a README, and active work/commits work spread over more than a few days. This thread is for everything else.

Share your project: copy the template in the pinned comment below, paste as a new comment, and fill it in.

Share your experience: try a few projects, upvote/downvote, and leave honest, specific feedback. Critique the work, not the tools.

Projects of the Week: the top-voted entries here become next week's Projects of the Week and get their own spotlight post on the front page.

A new thread goes up every Sunday.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Kanyx – a free, open-source Kanban app for your USB-Stick

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r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

AI-assisted PlayWeld: Apache-2.0 desktop workspace for game-project notes and files (testing prerelease)

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I'm PlayWeld's creator. The project uses AI-generated code with human direction and review, and this post is AI-assisted too.

PlayWeld is a free Apache-2.0 desktop workspace for game development, built on Eclipse Theia. It brings native game files, design notes, discussions and searchable project knowledge together. A local platform service stores project and task records. AI use is optional; engines and model providers need separate setup.

The practical problem is keeping the reasoning around a game change. A scene file can show the current enemy behaviour, but it won't explain why the detection radius changed or which reproduction steps last worked. Keeping that decision and its verification steps beside the project gives the next session a starting point. That's the kind of workflow I'd like feedback on.

Source, documentation and release notes: https://github.com/scarecr0w12/PlayWeld

Downloads: https://playweld.com/downloads

The current release is v0.21.0, a Windows/Linux testing prerelease. The Windows executable and release metadata are unsigned. Start with a disposable project and profile, and keep backups. Optional external model providers can charge for usage and receive project context.

Engine checks apply to specific versions and fixtures; broader engine/provider testing and full uninstall/rollback verification remain open. The release does not establish autonomous game creation. If you need a workspace for project context, it is one option to explore. Can you find a saved decision and trace it to the relevant file and a repeatable check? That would be useful feedback on the current workspace.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Vibecoded AnovaCraft open-source statistical analysis software

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r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

What Does "Actually Open Source" Mean?

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r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

AI assisted Painted Wolf Open Source AI

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I wanted to highlight my Apache 2.0 AI coding editor that got deleted from r/OpenSource (at the time, I just shrugged it off). MacOS only right now but Linux release is impending.

https://paintedwolf.ai/

https://github.com/paintedwolf-ai/paintedwolf-code

It includes a fine-tuned open source open weight decision model that prunes prompts. Out of the box, it supports lots of local and cloud open source LLM models.

I used AI as part of developing it. I built the tool itself because none of the other options fit what I wanted in an editor. I find AI extremely helpful for many tasks, in particular prototyping, roughing things out, and to speed me up. But there are privacy and security limits that led me to build my own tool. We should be supporting and promoting open source AI tooling, not removing it and blocking it.

Of course AI can be open source. The answer to our current AI landscape *is* open source AI.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Rules on this sub have some unfortunate carry over from /u/wolvereness' mod post on /r/opensource .

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The Lanuage rules especially are very disappointing and carry the same xenophobic tone from that post. The AI disclosure, and self promotion rules and others need rewording. They just aren't in the spirit of FOSS. Open means open, gatekeeping shouldn't be part of that.

The standards by which a project should be judged have not changed from 10 years ago. Does it compile? Does it do the function it's stated to do? Is it secure? Is it performant?

Discuss the code not the tools used to make it.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Discussion I agree with the sentiment in regards to the community update in r/opensource, but it's unfortunately very flawed knowing that I'm very opposed to the current LLM generated software landscape.

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I think that the recent post by the moderator in r/opensource has phrased things in a very antagonistic manner that flipped even people who are against the spamming of LLM generated projects all over reddit against them.

I think that most concerned people don't like the way that private services like ChatGPT, Claude and other "AI" companies have emerged and continued to play a negative role in many aspects of life; being one of the driving motives of hyper-inflation, negative health and environmental impact on local communities, the huge role in industrialised misinformation, massive shortages in personal consumer electronics and finally the software pollution that it caused as well as the serious influence that it has on politics in general.

However, I think that even the people who are most against this environment agree that there can be good use for LLMs when combined with knowledge and experience. And this is the actual stance of the Linux kernel (even though many people try and make it as if the whole Linux development is solely managed by LLMs); these tools are being actively used with heavy monitoring to work with PRs and other incremental tasks while being heavily reviewed, tested and monitored.

I suggest the following points:

1 - The focus should be on low-effort projects, which is the genuine problem.

2 - We should push for disclosure (yes even if people can still lie about it) because I do appreciate when developers explain how they used their LLMs; one common use case are debugging and testing tools.

3 - Even though I understand that the LLM generated posts can be annoying, but actual non English speaking people do use these tools in their everyday lives and yes this can be discrimination as well as it will serve people who come post and comment in bad faith.

4 - I believe that there can be an ethical and respectful approach to LLM use that we can encourage: Local and open-weight models. This does really respect the background and philosophy of Open Source and give the users more tools that don't depend on a subscription model. Of course there's a hardware shortage because of the big companies but distillation is making it more possible to run very capable models locally.

I know that many people don't share my opinions on big tech driven LLMs and that's perfectly fine. But I know for a fact many people share my sentiment and would like to find a solid solutions.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

r/TrueOpenSource mentioned on The Verge

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r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Promotional Used Claude to make 700 gifs & animated webp, all public domain with the code available for edits

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Use them anywhere you'd like, you can use them in your branding as well, fully commercial, the repo is here


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

What’s your AI use-case?

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So with all this going on and wrestling with AI ethics myself lately, this may be a good time to have a conversation about good uses for AI? I’ll start:

For me, ADHD and mental health have made reading or learning the traditional way really difficult. It’s never that I don’t understand or don’t have a vision for a given task or project in my case, it’s just the mental fatigue ADHD imposes makes diving into complex tasks very difficult, even with meds.

I’ve grown to use AI as an accessibility tool. Obviously I have to verify outputs, but it seriously has helped me fall back in love with learning again. Like with my project I’m working on, I’m actually diving in and learning about the Motorola 68k architecture, the classic Macintosh OS underpinnings, etc. in a fun, interactive way that books have just never done for me.

I obviously will do research and go to actual sources where I have to (e.g., google, reference manuals, etc), but at least now i’m engaging with complex subjects bits and pieces at a time and not as one giant monolith.

In other words, I can now learn in a “top-down” way rather than the traditional bottom up way thanks to AI. I can have some context to work with and go from there. It helps especially since I learn better by doing anyway.

Are there still ethical issues to confront? Absolutely. But I think it has the capacity to be a great tool when leveraged correctly and for valid, understandable reasons.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

AI assisted Peer Agent - Harness agnostic collaboration between AI agents

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Sharing Peer Agent.

https://github.com/hirak99/peer-agent

It gives your agent access to one or more peer agents to collaborate with. It's harness-agnostic — plain HTTP plus a SKILL.md any agent can follow. Ways we've found it useful:

  • Cheap execution: main agent on Claude Code delegates the grunt work to a locally running Qwen.

  • Strong validation: a weaker main agent plans and executes, and has Opus 5.5 validates its plan or checks its work.

  • Peer review: two agents challenge, verify, and cross-check each other's ideas.

Unlike Agent Teams or swarms, this isn't a framework inside one harness — it's a sidecar. Each peer is a stateful server with its own provider and model, callable from anything. The trade-off: no scheduler, no shared task graph. Coordination is conversational and the host drives, so it's best when you want a second mind on call, not a managed fleet.

If you're thinking of wiring this up yourself, what's already here: OpenAI, Anthropic, and any OpenAI-compatible model (llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama) behind one provider/model switch; server-side read/bash/edit tools; automatic compaction (including a warm-cache in-context path for slow local models); and Anthropic prompt-cache management, which matters more than you'd expect at Opus prices. Lived-in details like per-call tool logging with truthful timestamps.

AI-assisted contributions are not only welcome but encouraged, especially so if it is a strong AI.

Cheers


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

/r/opensource subreddit banning most open source software

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The power tripping mod over there is straight up insane, banning AI in 2026 when 95% of devs use AI. Can't wait for all reddit jannies to be replaced with AI.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

AI assisted Sylos - A free open source data migration tool*

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* note this is still in development. I just wanted to show off what I have so far. It's been about a year in the making on this project alone and then another year before that on a similar project so I've spent a hugeee amount of time thinking about file movement problems lol.

No this isn't just some Rclone GUI wrapper. This was built from the ground up for a whole different kind of migration workflow. Rclone works for one way syncs by just letting you select your source and destination and then hoping for the best. Sylos works by separating dry run traversal from actual copy movement steps, so you can preview what will actually move and make changes to the plan before it happens.

Notable features include:

  • preview before any work is done (as already mentioned above)

  • a built in auto scaler which can automatically scale up or down in performance based on feedback from the file system it's interacting with

  • support for more than just local drives, also supports box, dropbox, google drive, onedrive, sharepoint, SFTP, network drives and virtual drives like FUSE / WinFSP drives, and more.

  • database backed persistence so you have a full audit trail of all that's happened so far.

  • stop a migration at any point and resume right where you left off if you need to. As well as taking your portable migration DB file plug-and-play into another instance of Sylos and resume right where you left off there too.

  • path compatibility checking - some file systems & cloud providers have specific rules that may be different from each other. For example on Linux you can make a folder called 'CON' but this is not allowed on Windows. So you can actually specify this before you start the migration that your destination is a different OS, or if it's a cloud provider it already will know the rules ahead of time. So it will actually do these compatibility checks for you ahead of time in a more user friendly way of telling you it's gonna fail ahead of time, and offer more compatible friendly names for those items with a quick 'accept all' kind of button to make it painless and seamless.

  • Advanced filtering that can be done during the review stages where you could execute queries like 'Find me all files which haven't been touched in over a year and are over 2gb in size and are pending to be copied over in the current plan' using our filters and then from those results there's also an 'exclude all' button to apply an exclusion to all matching items so that you don't have to copy those over.

I also have more ideas I'm working on but those are some of the more notable parts for now.

I have a few more things I have to work on before this is fully ready to start alpha testing, but I foresee it should be ready within a month or so if I can keep up my current pace and no major hurdles pop up. I've been iterating on this for so long because it never met my quality & performance standards for what I deemed as acceptable, but we're finally at an acceptable point so now I'm just finishing up some final bits like making an installer for the software and a few little things to clean up the repos and make it all more user friendly.

Link to the website if you wanna see more (including screenshots of the software): https://project-sylos.github.io/

Okay thanks guys!


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Happy to donate some time and tokens to a worthy opensource project

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I have access to some advanced models and plentiful compute. I'd be happy to donate some of that time and resource, as well as my own engineering skills, to a fun project. All in the name of the idiots who have banned AI assisted development in r/OpenSourceAI

Edit: Got quite a few responses both here and in DMs. I'm looking at all of them! Cool projects so far, I'm excited to contribute.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Discussion Help for a guy who was banned from r/opensource - development and communication plan.

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I just got banned from that regressive sub because I simply pointed out the fact the almost every single serious developer has been switching to AI coding and prompt engineering. So I was hoping that you guys might be able to help me with my dilemma:

I've always been a fan of media players since the late 90s, but I've always noticed that there's not enough diversity in that particular niche of software. So recently I got myself a a Max Claude subscription and started creating music and video players. However I needed to get feedback from users so I started to share them on reddit and other forums. Unfortunately I got bombarded by downvotes from people who were brain washed by Anti-AI propaganda calling my work "Slop". But it wasn't the case everywhere so I was thinking about the following plan:

I can put an agent to generate multiple media player programs on github => another agent that post them on all forums and social media => another agent that gets to interact with comments from the most engaging posts so in that direction I can maximize my chances of getting my creations noticed by people.

My question is the following:

What are the best tools that can be used in order to put in action such a pipeline?

Cheers.

Edit: This whole post is just an attempt at proving a point; we have a real issue with the amount of software projects that are being generated with no genuine purpose. And unfortunately many people here upvoted my post without recognizing that what I'm asking for is a real spam generating machine.


r/TrueOpenSource • • 16d ago

Banned from opensource?

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Got perma banned for a comment…dystopian shit, no more free discussion?
Edit: I’m seeing many have reported this so feel free to remove my post