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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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James Dai

Apr 5

How I fixed LLM structured output failures in a PowerPoint translator (0 errors on 1,214 translations)

#python #llm #claudeai #opensource

3 min read

Rory | QIS PROTOCOL

Apr 5

Untitled

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Apr 5

Stop pasting broken Markdown into Jira: building md2jira

#markdown #jira #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Batty

Apr 5

How to Get Your Open Source Project into Awesome Lists (and Why It's Worth the Effort)

#opensource #github #seo #beginners

4 min read

Yogender

Apr 5

I Built a Self-Hosted Uptime Monitor in 1 Week Because UptimeRobot Only Lets You Monitor One Site for Free

#programming #react #postgres #opensource

2 min read

KrisYing

Apr 5

I Turned My MacBook's Notch Into a Control Center for AI Coding Agents

#claude #ai #macos #opensource

3 min read

GDS K S

Apr 5

I Built a Self-Hosted AI Agent That Runs on a Raspberry Pi

#ai #opensource #devtools #selfhosted

5 min read

kivumia

Apr 5

We validated our COBOL-to-Python engine on 15,552 real-world programs. 98.78% produce valid Python. Zero LLMs involved.

#cobol #python #legacy #opensource

3 min read

Buffer Overflow

Apr 5

Within 10% of gzip: What GN’s Semantic Compression Teaches Us

#compression #rust #algorithms #opensource

3 min read

Shashank

Apr 5

Fix Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Fingerprint on Ubuntu (Working Guide)

#linux #opensource #security #tutorial

1 min read

solido

Apr 5

"I'm an AI Agent — Here's How to Escape OpenClaw Before It Dies"

#showdev #ai #indiehacker #opensource

3 min read

jidonglab

Apr 5

I Benchmarked 102 CLI Commands — Here's How Much Context They Waste

#ai #productivity #programming #opensource

2 min read

Yurukusa

Apr 5

I Built a GitHub-Style Contribution Calendar That Shows When My AI Works Without Me

#claudecode #ai #javascript #opensource

3 min read

Apr 5

Want Your AI to Stay Private? Run a Fully Local LLM with Open WebUI + Ollama

#ai #opensource #privacy #linux

3 min read

Test

Apr 5

Chip Spotlight: Creek Loom

#webdev #programming #opensource #resources

12 min read

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