REA and ArtCraft are two projects driving a wave of AI-built clones that attempt to recreate Adobe and Microsoft software, letting developers reverse-engineer and rebuild commercial tools without access to the original source code.

The OSS community started with developers wanting to help each other and create libraries, sdks and tools to improve the way we work and make things easier. Now, everyone can just claim that they are experienced engineers without even knowing what they are talking about. A random guy on GitHub going viral after vibe coding something he doesn't even understand. Take a look at rea author: https://github.com/morluto Never committed a single useful commit before 2026 and without using LLM. People like Jonathan G who literally made openJDK available have little to no presence while lurkers making profit out of trash software. I blame us and everyone that gives attention to such slop. I honestly now understand why many decided to leave the industry for good!

I'd like to share an open-source project I've been working on called Pocket Circle.

It's a browser-based collection of four party games, built for groups sharing a single phone.

One of my main goals was to avoid the usual infrastructure and monetization requirements of mobile games:

• No backend or user accounts
• No advertising, analytics, or tracking
• Local persistence using IndexedDB
• Gameplay without API calls
• Source code under AGPL-3.0-or-later

The implementation uses TypeScript and Vite, with a static deployment on GitHub Pages.

Repository: https://github.com/LucaSforza/ImpostorGame

Playable version: https://lucasforza.github.io/ImpostorGame/

I'd be interested in hearing what other open-source developers think about this kind of fully local-first game architecture.

https://github.com/CharlieGroves/review-load

ReviewLoad is a small browser extension that puts the number of reviews a GitHub user has assigned to them next to each person in the Reviewers menu on a pull request, and next to reviewers already on the PR.

This stops a couple people on the team being a bottleneck for key features because they are flooded with PRs for review.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reviewload/ncokcokbfpbigdoagghpdpncjfhpocol

Firefox is in review.

I'm now using this every day. Hope it's useful to someone else.

Hello [r/opensource](r/opensource)! I am really excited to share a project that is near and dear to my heart: Sill, a free and open source (Apache 2.0) pair of apps, now on the App Store and at getsill.app: any window from your Mac, on your iPhone or iPad, streamed straight between the two with no server anywhere. Swift with Apple frameworks only, no third-party dependencies, and the repo holds the whole history, the design plans and the tests. The two apps together are under 7 MB to download and about 10 MB installed, but pack quite a punch. Now, for the reason I wanted to work on this project, what it does that is unique compared to other remote desktop apps for iOS and Mac, and why I went with a free and open source model.

Apple famously said [no](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYikXbC6Fs) at WWDC 2018: macOS and iOS were going to be kept separate. Mac apps could functionally run on an iPad, but Apple chose to segment their products to protect the experience they wanted, and the dream of using Mac apps on an iPad was never going to be realized, by design. So today, that no turns into a yes.

Sill shows any window from your Mac, or its whole desktop, on your iPhone or iPad, and lets you use it with touch, a keyboard, an on-screen trackpad or Apple Pencil. Unlike remote desktop apps that squeeze a whole screen into a viewport, Sill streams one window at a time, resized to fit your device, with the Mac's windows, apps and menus as native controls on the device. It streams straight from your Mac to your device over your own network, so there is no account to create and no server in between. You pair each device once, and every connection is encrypted. Both parts are free: the Sill app for iPhone and iPad, and Sill for Mac.

Streaming

* Any single Mac window, or the whole desktop, on your iPhone or iPad
* Hardware HEVC video, up to 120 fps on ProMotion screens (60 elsewhere); the rate follows each device
* Seven quality presets, from Low (4 Mbps) to Extreme (150 Mbps), plus Resolution, a frame-rate limit and Prioritize Encoding Speed
* Text size (Aa): resizes the Mac window to fit your screen, so text is the size you want
* Optional virtual display: a window streams from its own HiDPI display, sized to your device, and keeps updating even when covered on the Mac; full-screen video works too

Controls

* Touch: tap to click, drag to scroll with momentum, touch and hold to right-click
* Apple Pencil as the mouse, with hover
* Software and hardware keyboards, with ⌘, ⌃ and ⌥ shortcuts, plus a key row with latching modifiers and a Spotlight key
* Laptop layout when you hold the device upright: the picture on top, a key row and a trackpad (two-finger scroll, two-finger tap, hold then drag, three-finger gestures for Mission Control, App Exposé, switching Spaces, Apps and Show Desktop)
* Dedicated iPhone and iPad layouts, and it's made for iPhone Duo: open it flat and your Mac fills the inner display; half open, it's a laptop with the picture above the fold and the trackpad and keys below; closed, Sill runs on the cover display. Nothing you touch sits on the fold.
* Each Mac app's menus (File, Edit, View, etc.) on your device: in the iPad's own menu bar on iPadOS 26, or behind a Menus button
* Window thumbnails: switch with a tap; hold one for close, minimize and full screen; drag to reorder
* An Apps drawer: open windows and every installed app, with search, and it launches apps

Connecting

* Finds your Mac automatically; each Mac shows how it's reached: Wired, Wi-Fi, Direct or Remote
* USB cable support, and a live session moves between the cable and Wi-Fi without dropping
* Direct Wireless Connection (optional), for when you and your Mac don't share a network
* Remote Access from anywhere through your own VPN, such as Tailscale, or a port forward
* Away from home, a session starts at a quality a slower connection can carry, your Mac tells you when the link can't keep up and suggests one it can, and when you get home the session moves back to your home network by itself
* Pairing: every connection encrypted with TLS 1.3; pair each device once by QR code or a 12-digit code, and a USB cable pairs by itself; Require pairing is on by default
* The Mac keeps its keys in the protected part of its keychain that only Sill can read

Sill for Mac

* A ~7 MB menu bar app with a live status card: each device, its frame rate and latency
* Settings: General, Devices, Streaming, Virtual Display, Remote Access and Permissions
* Launch at Login, a log window, and an update check that tells you when a new version is out
* A notarized disk image download from getsill.app

Sill for iPhone and iPad

* A Settings panel that changes the Mac's stream settings and shows the connection and latency
* A first-run tour, and Take the Tour to replay it
* Tells you when the Mac or the device needs an update

Free and open source (Apache 2.0), with a tip jar through GitHub Sponsors. No account, no servers, no tracking: video goes straight from your Mac to your device.

Since Sill has no operating costs, I wanted the source to be open for the community to use and mold however they need, forever. And since it's open source, I figured I might as well make it free. Tips support the time I put into it and the Apple developer fees.

Needs a Mac with Apple silicon on macOS 14 or later, and an iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later.

* App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816359860
* Sill for Mac and the website: https://getsill.app/
* Early builds on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6v7nqyn3
* Source: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill (and the site: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill-site)

I got tired of emailing myself files and using cloud apps just to move a PDF from my phone to my computer. So I built FileApex, a local-first file manager and sharing hub for Android, macOS and Windows.

You pair your devices once. After that, files go straight between them over your own network.

What it does:

• Pair with a QR code. There are no IP addresses to type. You can also use a 6-digit code, and there's an optional PIN lock.
• Browse and move files between paired devices, or send to several devices at once.
• Share from anywhere. It adds a Finder and Share extension on macOS, Share and Send To on Windows, and Direct Share targets on Android.
• Bulletin Board. Send text or files to all your devices at once. Delete a message and it disappears everywhere.
• Phone notifications on your computer (opt-in). You pick which apps share notifications. You can reply to messages or dismiss them from your desktop. Nothing is stored, and verification codes stay on the phone by default.
• Clipboard and link sharing (opt-in). Copy on one device and open the link on another.
• Locate Phone. Make your phone ring from your computer.
• Device details. See battery, storage, RAM and network for every paired device.

For the power users:

• A desktop CLI and terminal dashboard for scripting and headless use
• Tailscale support to reach your devices across networks
• A Docker daemon you can run as an always-on node
• A browser extension that sends your current tab to the Bulletin Board
• A Simple theme if you only have one phone and one computer and want the minimum, with many others to customize your experience

Privacy: There are no ads, trackers or analytics. Anything that touches the internet is opt-in, and your files stay on your devices.

It's free for personal use. The project is new and updated often, so feedback and bug reports help a lot.

Download: GitHub releases (Android APK, macOS, Windows) | Google Play 

I'm happy to answer questions in the comments. What would you want it to do next?

I maintain around 25 GitHub repositories across several products, infrastructure projects, and shared libraries.

Keeping their settings, secrets, and GitHub Actions workflows aligned was becoming a maintenance problem. I had an imperative script doing the job, but adding repository-specific rules on top of API calls, pagination, and error handling was getting increasingly painful.

So I started building Octosmith, an open-source tool for declarative GitHub resource management.

The basic workflow:

• Define shared configuration in YAML templates.
• Discover repositories using names, teams, or custom properties.
• Compare their current configuration with the desired state.
• Plan and apply the necessary changes.

The main design choice is selective ownership. If a setting is declared, Octosmith enforces it. Otherwise, it generally leaves it alone. Repositories can share conventions without needing identical configurations.

It also doesn't require persistent Terraform-style resource state, and independent configurations can manage different aspects of the same repository.

The project is still evolving, and I'd really appreciate feedback from people dealing with similar problems.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/Kralizek/octosmith

I also wrote about the problem that started the project, the design decisions, and the trade-offs along the way:

Blog post: https://renatogolia.com/2026/10/09/github-repositories-are-infrastructure-too/

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people managing GitHub repositories at scale. How do you handle shared configuration without taking ownership of every repository setting?

I'm an independent developer from Argentina. I'd like to share VKRT NES Remaster, a native NES emulator built with C++20 and AI-assisted engineering.

It features:

• Native CPU, PPU, APU and mapper implementations.
• Original (F1) and Remaster (F4) graphics modes.
• Windows frontend with audio and controller support.
• Open-source code with attribution licensing.

The remastering system is designed to improve visuals without modifying the emulated machine's behavior.

No commercial ROMs are included, and universal compatibility isn't claimed.

GitHub: https://github.com/FranTriems/VKRT-NES-Remaster

Feedback and contributions are welcome!

I'm the developer of Yowl, a free Swift menu-bar app for macOS 14+. Arm it and unplugging the charger triggers a siren and screen lock. Camera-based movement detection, photographs and ntfy phone alerts are optional.

The part I'd particularly like feedback on is movement detection. It compares camera frames to distinguish the whole scene shifting when the laptop moves from someone walking past a stationary laptop. Repetitive backgrounds such as blinds or brick can confuse it, so there's a live sensitivity readout to test your own setup.

I made the source public because an app with a camera and optional photo uploads should be inspectable. Photos stay on the Mac unless you enable phone alerts, which send them through ntfy.sh. There are no accounts or analytics. The optional setting to keep the siren going with the lid closed asks for admin permission and installs a sudoers rule allowing two fixed pmset commands.

It is an early deterrent, not theft-proof protection: quitting the app or powering off stops it. One user has also reported the lid-closed helper failing to install; that issue is still open.

Source, build instructions and issues: https://github.com/nejcar20/yowl

Download and staged demo: https://dontstealmylaptop.com

I'd welcome reports from other MacBook models, or ideas for improving movement detection around repetitive backgrounds. It's MIT licensed, with no paid tier.

Free, open-source (MIT) and fully local: Agent Standup turns your AI coding agents’ sessions into a live team video call: who’s working, who’s stuck, who needs your approval, with optional voices. It only reads the session files already on your disk and costs zero extra tokens. VS Code extension, CLI and desktop app. Demo and install: https://atoll92.github.io/agent-standup/ Feedback and PRs very welcome.

Hi, there I made this project as I am Tierd of watching the same NFSW content my region and language provide and i find Japanese and Spanish media for the same content better and interesting problem being i can't know what they are speaking unless the video has subtitle and majority of the videos doesn't have the subtitles hence i had to make this app.

hence I am here to ask for reviews and advice how can i make the app better and it would be great if you could contribute to my project

check it out at : https://github.com/Pager-dot/vid_translate

Hey everyone!

While working on my Java projects, I got annoyed at how often I had to write the same kind of code for everyday file operations and text processing. Reading and writing files, appending content, copying files, counting words, searching directories, and getting file metadata started feeling repetitive.

So I decided to build FilzaFiles, a small Java utility library that wraps these common operations into reusable methods.

Some things it currently supports:

• Creating, reading, writing, appending, copying, moving, and deleting files
• Creating file backups
• Counting words, Unicode characters, lines, paragraphs, and approximate sentences
• Replacing text in strings and files
• Recursively searching by filename or extension
• Inspecting file metadata

I have released v0.1.0 with a downloadable JAR. I also tested it with a separate Java application and ran 22 integration checks, all of which passed.

Project: https://github.com/Peshimam-Ashar-Mohammed/FilzaFiles

Download: https://github.com/Peshimam-Ashar-Mohammed/FilzaFiles/releases/download/v0.1.0/filzafiles-0.1.0.jar

It requires Java 21 or later. It isn't on Maven Central yet, so the README explains how to integrate the JAR into a regular Java project or a Maven project.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from other Java developers:

• Does the API feel intuitive?
• Are there any design decisions you'd change?
• What edge cases or tests am I missing?
• Are there useful file or text utilities you'd want to see added?

This is my first release of the library, and I'm hoping to improve it based on real developer feedback. Criticism is welcome! Also star the repo too pleaseeeeee if you find it helpful.

Thanks for checking it out!

Hey everyone! 👋

For the last few months, I've been working on a massive passion project called Vyra.

Most personal finance apps are either simple budget trackers that don't understand investments, or they are expensive, privacy-invasive platforms. I wanted something that tracked everything locally.

What it does: It's an entire Wealth Operating System. It handles daily cash flows, multi-currency bank accounts, stock & crypto portfolios, and real estate yields. It even has built-in simulators for FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) and Debt Destruction (Avalanche/Snowball methods). Oh, and it has an AI-coach that analyzes your spending to generate monthly reports.

Tech Stack: I built it using Python and Django 6.0. It's constructed using a monolithic modular architecture with 31 distinct apps. I made sure to prioritize data integrity—no floating-point money issues!

You can self-host it in one click: I just dockerized the whole thing. If you want to run it on your own server for total privacy, just clone it and run docker-compose up.

It's 100% free and open-source (MIT License). My goal is to make top-tier financial strategy available to anyone.

Repo link: https://github.com/Arjumaan/Vyra.git

Let me know what you think! I am also looking for contributors if anyone wants to help build out new modules!

This project was born out of deep frustration with OneDrive and Nextcloud sync issues on macOS. However, fcks supports all major platforms.

https://github.com/JerryI/fcks

• No temporary files
• Stateless
• A limited set of commands
• Download, upload, free up folders and any subfolders
• Virtual folders?
• .fcksignore files support

I originally wrote it for myself as an experiment because I wanted a small, reliable tool that gave me full control over what and how I sync. Other popular solutions didn’t provide the kind of virtual-folder support I needed a simple alternative to "Files On-Demand". Instead of keeping placeholder files, fcks keeps only the folder structure visible and lets you "hydrate" its contents when needed.

Here is a list of commands and a "mental model":

``` LOCAL ROOT DAV ROOT /my/files /remote/files | | +---- docs/report.pdf <== same path ==> docs/report.pdf +---- photos/cat.jpg <== same path ==> photos/cat.jpg | | +---------------- SCAN BOTH ------------------+

  fcks push     = remote should look like local
  fcks pull     = local should look like remote
  fcks merge    = keep both sides; newest changed file wins
  fcks scaffold = copy remote folder structure, without files
  fcks free     = delete local files, but keep folders
  fcks rm       = remove from both sides
  fcks ls       = lists both sides   

```

I hope you find it useful too! Cheers

i need a calendar where i can enter appointments and alerts on my desktop. i need something customisable with audible alerts.

Hey everyone! 👋 ​I got tired of switching tabs and dealing with clunky setups to test different AI models, so I built The Gradient WebAI using JavaScript. ​It's a clean, open-source web interface where you can drop in your own API keys and use them all in one spot. The github link is attached here..

Please also star the repo if you feel it was good..

Thank you

I just released v1.0.0 of TaskFlow, a small full-stack task manager (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) that I've set up specifically as a place for people to make their first open-source contribution.

What I've put in place:

- An MIT license, Code of Conduct (Contributor Covenant 3.0), security policy and issue/PR templates
- A contributing guide that goes from fork to merged PR, step by step
- 15 issues, each with context, the exact files to touch, acceptance criteria and how to test, plus a public roadmap issue
- Every bug report in those issues was reproduced first, so contributors aren't chasing ghosts

The first outside PR arrived a few hours after the issues went up and is already merged and live.

Hacktoberfest is more about in-person participation this year rather than rewards for merged PRs, but contributing is still worth it: you get a real code review, a merged PR on your profile, and practice with the workflow every open-source project uses.

Repo: https://github.com/KEX-03/taskflow
Live demo: https://taskflow-plum-one.vercel.app

I'd welcome feedback from maintainers here too: anything you'd change about how the project is set up for newcomers?

Probably biggest update for word-sys's PDF Editor, now its reached v1.11.2 update. This update is Flatpak and Feature Update. The Flatpak version is officially released on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.word_sys.word-sys-pdf-editor) thanks to anyconvert project!

This update introduces Multi-Document Tabs, integrating Adw.TabView and Adw.TabBar so you can open and edit multiple PDFs simultaneously in dedicated tabs. Each tab features independent undo/redo histories, separate zoom states, and dirty indicators to track unsaved edits, complete with quick tab switching (Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+PageDown and Ctrl+Shift+Tab / Ctrl+PageUp) and tab closing (Ctrl+W).

Another major addition is the Visual Document Merging Workspace (Ctrl+Shift+M). It provides a dedicated side-by-side workspace for combining pages from two source PDFs into a target document, complete with drag-and-drop page ordering, live zoomable previews, insertion markers, inspector details etc.

You guys know that I also replaced external LibreOffice subprocess calls with the native pure-Python anyconvert Document Engine (updated to anyconvert 0.1.9 across all platforms and package manifests). You can now convert PDFs into DOCX, PPTX, ODT, ODP, and TXT entirely in pure Python, featuring both Pixel-Accurate Canvas and Semantic Flow conversion modes. And its 342KB :)

Added Page Rotation (Ctrl+Shift+R for Clockwise and Ctrl+Shift+L for Counter-Clockwise) with persistent 90-degree PyMuPDF rotation preservation.

Added a Dedicated Recently Opened Files Hub, introducing an app-managed recent files list with universal file icons that eliminates system-wide file scanning overhead.

Added Text Alignment & Formatting, bringing 4-way text alignment (Left, Center, Right, Justify) and strikethrough formatting support to the text tool.

Updated the Interactive Quick Start Guide & Manual, expanding the guide and keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet to cover tabs, merging, rotation, and multi-format export with 6 high-resolution screenshots.

Expanded internationalization with 7 Supported Languages, delivering complete UI and documentation localization across English, Turkish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian.

This update also includes important packaging modernizations and fixes:

• Release Packaging Optimization: Fully separated architecture artifacts for x86_64 (amd64) and aarch64 (arm64), including standalone .deb packages. Removed duplicate asset copies and eliminated oversized source tarballs from automated build releases.
• Packaging Modernization: Purged soffice and flatpak-spawn permissions from Flatpak and AppImage packaging, and updated the Flatpak runtime to GNOME Platform 50 with portal-based file chooser access.
• Application Icon and Desktop Integration: Fixed the icon lookup path to ensure crisp vector SVG rendering on the Welcome screen, About dialog, and system docks across both Flatpak and direct execution.
• Flatpak Window Class Mapping: Aligned application program name with desktop file metadata for proper window tracking and icon association in GNOME Shell and desktop environments.

You can download Flatpak release on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.word_sys.word-sys-pdf-editor) or the standalone .deb packages (x86_64 / aarch64), AppImage, or build from source directly on the GitHub Releases page.

Thanks to everyone who supports this project with their ideas, feedback, and bug reports. I hope this helps all Linux users get their PDF work done easily, thank you :)

Hey there,

For the past few weeks I have been working on a project that integrates multiple external tools with some custom python scripts for creating a system that has most of the tools that a writer of fiction (particularly SciFi & Fantasy) could want to assist with their projects.

That said, I am a beginner at software development and it would be great to have experienced developers to look at the project and help out in any way you can.

The Project Repo is located here: https://github.com/aryansinghnagar/Ars-Arcanum

Any and all help is appreciated

Press Alt+Q, see every tab as a screenshot, type a few letters to jump. Free and open source.

Its content security policy blocks every outgoing connection, so previews and history stay on your machine. The code is on GitHub.

You can find it here: Link to extension