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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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Bonnie for CopilotKit

Dec 8

Easily Build a Frontend for your AWS Strands Agents using AG-UI in 30 minutes

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

17 min read

NextBlock

Dec 8

Designing a Type-Safe Plugin System for Next.js: Why Zod is Our Secret Weapon

#zod #cms #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

Nico

Dec 8

Built an app that provides various audio tweak tools and runs entirely in the browser

#showdev #webdev #react #opensource

2 min read

Dec 8

Bifrost: An LLM Gateway built for enterprise-grade reliability, governance, and scale(50x Faster than LiteLLM)

#go #opensource #llm #mcp

2 min read

Dec 8

Building a High-Performance Open-Source LLM Gateway: Bifrost (54x Faster than LiteLLM)

#go #ai #opensource #chatgpt

2 min read

Constantin

Dec 8

🚀 The Future of Information Retrieval (IR) — Looking for Testers & Feedback

#productivity #python #opensource #testing

2 min read

ALSOPS

Dec 8

metaForge: A Multi-Language Build & Automation Compiler

#programming #opensource #buildtools #programminglanguages

1 min read

Stef Antonio Virgil

Dec 8

Collective AI Memory for Engineering Teams (Open Source)

#ai #opensource #typescript #npm

2 min read

Dec 8

Building a Production-Ready Auth System with Next.js 16, Better Auth, and TanStack Form

#nextjs #react #authentication #opensource

9 min read

Vibes

Dec 8

Base64 is Obsolete: Why I Built a Base-36 Encoder That Runs on Your Toaster

#rust #nol36 #opensource #base36

1 min read

Dec 8

AI-Friendly README: Stop Claude & ChatGPT Hallucinations

#documentation #ai #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Dec 8

From 0 to 11 Bugs Fixed: How GoAWK Battle-Tested My 3000x Faster Regex Engine

#go #opensource #regex #performance

4 min read

Tatted Dev

Dec 8

HoneyDrunk.Transport: A Transport Agnostic Messaging Framework for .NET

#programming #architecture #opensource #dotnet

2 min read

MUHAMMAD USMAN AWAN

Dec 8

The Switzerland of AI Tooling: Inside TanStack AI’s Bold New Approach

#discuss #webdev #ai #opensource

5 min read

Dec 8

Oh, Nice Repo!

#github #opensource

1 min read

CrisisCore-Systems

Dec 8

Two People, Same Body: A Developer's Crisis Architecture

#mentalhealth #opensource #webdev #react

3 min read

Dec 8

Release 0.4- Planning

#webdev #opensource #programming

1 min read

Dec 8

Finding Open Source Projects to Contribute To

#webdev #opensource

2 min read

Dec 8

State management in Umami codebase - Part 1.0

#statemanagement #umami #opensource #nextjs

2 min read

Dec 8

My AI agent cost me $400 overnight, so I built pytest for agents and open-sourced it

#ai #opensource #agents #testing

3 min read

Arnab KarSarkar

Dec 8

I Built an Open-Source Privacy Firewall for ChatGPT (Runs 100% Locally)

#ai #opensource #security #privacy

4 min read

Dec 8

Sparse-K Attention in llama.cpp: Make Your LLMs Fly🚀

#opensource #machinelearning #cpp #ai

2 min read

Triple Gyrus Core

Dec 7

Triple Gyrus Core: An Accessible Data and Software System

#showdev #a11y #datascience #opensource

2 min read

Ivan G.

Dec 8

How I decided to revive my project that was stale for 5 years... Part 2

#opensource #github #webdev #sideprojects

9 min read

Dec 8

Vyoma Biz Khata — Simplify Your Stock & Inventory Management 📦

#discuss #mobile #startup #opensource

2 min read

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