Free Software

Open source at 508.dev

508 software should always be Free as in Freedom. We maintain these open source projects in that spirit, and contributions are a way to learn how we work.

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20 public projects

6maintained for conventions, interviews, maps, and member tools

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Core projects

These are our most active and relevant projects.

508 Devkit

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Starter conventions for new software projects, including repo structure, tooling, and defaults as guidance for AI coding agents.

Project conventions

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Interview as a Service

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A small app for scheduling practice technical interviews with 508 members and candidates.

DjangoHTMX

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Favorite Places

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Turn public Google Places Lists into a shareable collection with improvements over the regular Google Maps interface, such as searching and filtering within a list.

Powers DEM Flyers Favorites and other public list viewers.

AstroCSSTypeScriptPython

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Google Maps Scraper

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Scrapes Google Places Lists and Maps Places. Powers Favorite Places.

Python

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House Calendar

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Show room availability from ICS calendar links so shared spaces are easier to book.

TypeScriptReactTanStack StartDrizzlePostgres

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Soundboard

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An offline Android app for mixing looping sounds. Pick audio files from your device, play any number of them at the same time, and set each one's volume independently — rain under a fan under a café, at whatever balance you like.

kotlinandroid

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More projects

More public repos

These are some other projects and/or experiments.

Emotion Tracker

A free, offline-first Android app for recording how you feel, as fast as possible, against a timeline.

kotlinandroid

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EspoCRM Tally Webhook Intake

An EspoCRM custom module that turns Tally form submissions into Contact records, with a browsable log of every attempt.

phpespocrm

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Cone Club Taipei Traffic Stats

Static Svelte/Vite site with a traffic accident map and protective-equipment statistics, for a Taiwan-based pedestrian-rights direct action group.

javascriptsvelte

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Journal OCR

Python framework for setting up a local-LLM/vision model OCR flow for personal hand-written notebooks, with infrastructure for training on personal handwriting long-term.

pythonllmlocal model

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UConsole Scripts

Meshtastic (via native meshtasticd) and desktop/taskbar power controls for the radios on a ClockworkPi uConsole (CM4) fitted with the HackerGadgets AIO v2 expansion board (RTL-SDR / LoRa SX1262 / GPS / internal USB hub, all power-gated by GPIO).

bashmeshtasticsystemdlinuxsdrlora

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Arguing Agents

Run sequential philosophical experiments using local Ollama models as fresh OpenCode agents. Paseo hosts each session for remote monitoring; each directory under experiments/ carries one problem and its accepted argument between otherwise independent models.

llmlocal modelpaseonodejavascript

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Production and Distribution Coordination

Post-capitalist resource coordination: model what a community needs, what a region can produce, and what any proposed allocation costs whom — then show that to everyone and let people decide.

pythonhtmx

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