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I don’t normally believe in any form of self-promotion via this site, but there is a new service I’m now offering that I believe is news-worthy enough to be described here. A few weeks ago, I started a new website offering informational services to the world, mainly directed at the open source software community as a method of “giving back” something in return to my years of FOSS usage.

In addition to a few specialized “niche” features offered by the site (including an online lexer, parser generator, C to x86 assembly converter, pastebin, UNIX manual page repository, and .bat to .exe converter), the most prominent feature of the site is an LXR source code cross-reference/index, which currently serves as the world’s largest open source software lxr cross-reference/index.

With over 30GB of just textual source code alone, including the complete index of roughly six operating systems in addition to some of the most popular open source projects in the world (about 200 projects total), the site serves as a code index to both existing and future open source software developers, and each file has a “modify” link for direct in-browser .patch generation for the next SCM check-in or to be sent upstream.

The site is currently hosted at the same datacenter site as thecoffeedesk.com, and is currently distributed across several servers to ensure both speed and uptime so the software stays available online. Everyone is encouraged to view and modify the source code indexed on the site, where the licenses permit (there is some non-GPL/BSD code on the site, with the Microsoft Windows Platform SDK headers as a notable read-only example). The site was created to both be educational and to also turn on new developers to open source projects currently experiencing developer shortages, with the hopes of grabbing the attention of new developers for said projects.

I hope everyone can utilize this site as much as possible, and aid the projects indexed on the site. If any administrators of the projects listed on the site wish to contact me, please do so as I wish to keep the site updated to the most current source code of each project as much as possible. If the site seems a little slow (especially the complete CPAN index’s directory), it is probably just the hard drives warming up after a sleeping state due to inactivity. With that, enjoy browsing/patching any of the code indexed on the site.