Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers
Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes
As the mercury climbs to disgusting heights, The Reg FOSS desk has picked out a few FOSS highlights from its overflowing mailbox, in case you fancy some Super Productivity while monitoring your AI habit.
Prism Carbon Tracker
The Prism carbon tracker is a neat idea for helping to instill a tiny bit of self control in the more dedicated botlickers on your development team.
It's a plugin that integrates into Visual Studio Code. As the developer uses various "online coding assistants," Prism shows an estimate of how much CO₂ they're releasing in the process of outsourcing their mental activity to a datacenter somewhere.
As the plugin's homepage says: "It captures token usage from GitHub Copilot Chat, Claude Code, and runtime LLM API calls, then calculates CO₂ equivalents and surfaces them in the...
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