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Everything tagged Open Source, wherever it's filed, newest first.
Vapor is my open-source Python app that pulls grids, heroes, logos and icons from SteamGridDB and applies them to your Steam library, one game at a time or in bulk.
Thread: Games and gear ↗Badges is a small Obsidian plugin by gapmiss that turns a bit of inline code into a colored label. What it does, the few conventions I settled on, and the parts of my setup that are still on the to-do list.
CRT 90s TV is my open-source Raspberry Pi project for turning an old tube TV into a nine-channel, remote-controlled '90s channel-surfing machine.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗How to put a lightweight XFCE desktop on a machine that started life as Ubuntu Server, which package to pick, how to make it boot to the desktop, and how to give it a dark theme from the command line.
A desktop app and a set of browser extensions I built for making custom profile icons and switching between browser profiles without squinting at identical avatars.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗DataChart is my open-source, multi-tenant dashboard builder, a FastAPI backend and React front end for dragging charts onto a page and wiring them to real data sources.
Thread: App experiments ↗Vignelli is my open-source Obsidian theme for people who want their notes to read like a well-set print document, with serif type, gold rules and a teal highlighter.
Thread: The design notebook ↗ICON is my open-source Python tool that scans your desktop shortcuts, finds square artwork for them on SteamGridDB, and replaces the icons, with a backup you can restore from.
Thread: Games and gear ↗A Python desktop app that converts PDF, CBR, CBZ and CB7 comics into smaller WebP-based CBZ files and can combine single issues into trade paperback volumes.
Thread: Archive conversion workshop ↗On September 9 I decided G8KEPR would be open source under Apache-2.0. On September 10 I changed my mind. Both days had good arguments.
Thread: Building G8KEPR ↗Terminal News is my work-in-progress Go project for reading community-ranked news, local classifieds and NOAA weather in a text-only terminal app, for people who'd rather not open a browser to catch up.
Thread: App experiments ↗Genesis ROM Workshop is my open-source Python toolkit for poking around inside Sega Genesis ROMs, extracting palettes, text and tile graphics for ROM hacking, translation and preservation work.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗A small Chrome extension that swaps the new tab page for a clock, a rotating Unsplash background and a grid of site shortcuts with screenshot thumbnails.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗Terminal UI Components is my open-source, pure CSS framework for building terminal-style web interfaces, with ten color themes and box-drawing decorations.
Thread: The design notebook ↗Epic Games Transfer is my open-source PowerShell and Python tool that rewrites the Epic Games Launcher's manifest files after you move your games, so the launcher finds them instead of downloading them again.
Thread: Games and gear ↗A browser-only tool that copies YouTube subscriptions from one Google account to another, with selective transfer, quota tracking and resume-tomorrow support for big lists.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗FlowDrive is my concept for a storage optimizer that learns which files you'll need and puts them on the fastest drive, written up as a spec and architecture with no code yet.
Thread: App experiments ↗Fine Use is my open-source design system for terminal-style interfaces, a React component plan with CSS themes and a Python desktop implementation, and it's honest about being mostly a specification so far.
Thread: The design notebook ↗A small Python scraper that pulls eBay auction listings for a set of search terms and turns them into an HTML report, useful for personal price research before you buy or sell.
Thread: Desktop tinkering ↗Deckport is my open-source Python tool that registers portable native Linux games as Steam Deck non-Steam shortcuts, with artwork, so they show up in Game Mode ready to play.
Thread: Games and gear ↗My open-source Python and pygame recreation of the WeatherStar 4000, built for Raspberry Pi and CRT TVs, with live weather data and 26-plus display modes.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗A build log for a Raspberry Pi cable box that runs FieldStation42 on a CRT, with a keypad, an LED channel display, a guide channel and a WeatherStar weather channel.
Thread: The retro workbench ↗101 old posts, three versions of a design, and one very specific idea about what a personal website should feel like.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗I know WordPress inside and out, and I still didn't use it for this site. What I compared, and why I landed on Sveltia CMS.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗How I'd turn a bare Ubuntu Server install into a light XFCE desktop for someone learning computers, with the silly terminal programs that make the command line fun and a sensible order to learn it in.
Thread: Games and gear ↗The parts list, the free operating systems and the honest performance expectations for a Raspberry Pi 4 emulation box, plus how much storage each system really needs.
Thread: The emulation bench ↗