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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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DANISH ZULFIQAR

Jun 28

I Deployed 6 AI Systems Live — Here's What Actually Broke

#ai #productivity #opensource #product

5 min read

Jun 27

Adding io::ErrorKind::TooManyOpenFiles to Rust

#rust #systems #opensource #programming

2 min read

Tribulnation Labs

Jun 28

The Proper Way to Write API Clients

#python #api #opensource #devex

3 min read

Jun 28

AI didn't kill Tailwind UI. The lifetime license did.

#tailwindcss #devtools #business #opensource

3 min read

Marco 'Gatto' Boffo

Jun 28

OKF for Claude Code: structured, portable memory your agent (and team) can read

#ai #claudecode #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Jun 28

Found a hidden gem GitHub repo explaining CPython internals and memory management

#python #softwareengineering #programming #opensource

2 min read

Bhagya Prasad Dannina

Jun 28

I was tired of SOS apps failing in dead zones, so I built a pure Dart, 100% offline TFLite crash detection engine.

#showdev #flutter #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Lakshya Prajapati

Jun 28

Absolute Revolution in Assistants, ChuroAI.

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

1 min read

llimage

Jun 28

Weapon: Give Your Agent a Real Skill Arsenal

#python #agents #ai #opensource

4 min read

kimbeomgyu

Jun 28

I built a free circuit breaker for your LLM API bill

#typescript #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

A.F.

Jun 28

I scanned 35 popular repos' GitHub Actions. Here's what's broken.

#githubactions #cicd #devops #opensource

2 min read

Aman Kumar Singh

Jun 28

I Built a Free VS Code Extension for Odoo Developers 🐍

#odoo #python #opensource #vscode

3 min read

Jun 28

Delta Tables in Microsoft Fabric: What They Are and How They're Structured

#database #dataengineering #microsoft #opensource

5 min read

Kouki Badr

Jun 28

I built a remote skin engine for Flutter

#flutter #dart #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jun 28

Knowledge and Memory Management v0.0.2: Portable Knowledge Collection

#ai #automation #opensource

3 min read

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