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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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Alan West

Apr 17

How to Run LLMs Locally When Cloud AI Gets Too Invasive

#ai #llm #privacy #opensource

5 min read

Michael "Mike" K. Saleme

Apr 17

We audited every claim in our repos and found 14 files with wrong numbers

#security #python #opensource #testing

3 min read

DecDEPO

Apr 17

Distributing an open dataset across 12 platforms in one day: a playbook

#opensource #opendata #devops #productivity

5 min read

Nicholas Volkhin

Apr 17

When to Use XmlExtractKit Instead of General XML Tools in PHP

#opensource #php #xml #parsing

8 min read

Aniruddha Agarwal

May 1

BoldKit Spring 2026: v3.0 v3.2.2 - ASCII Animations, Canvas Effects, Dot Matrix Studio & More

#react #vue #ui #opensource

8 min read

Laxmikanta Nayak

Apr 17

Why I built ragwise: pip-installable RAG with hybrid search, streaming, and agent tools by default

#python #rag #llm #opensource

4 min read

Apr 17

Stop building "Yes-Bots": Why I’m open-sourcing a "Purple Line" for AI Agents

#ai #opensource #architecture #security

3 min read

megaphone

Apr 17

I built KIOKU — an OSS memory system for Claude Code

#claudecode #ai #obsidian #opensource

5 min read

Apr 17

Meta Muse Spark: What Meta Is Actually Betting On

#ai #programming #agents #opensource

7 min read

Valentyn Solomko

Apr 17

Chorus: letting AI coding CLIs review each other

#ai #devtools #opensource #claudecode

3 min read

Apr 17

The Quote-as-Ceiling Billing Pattern

#stripe #python #fastapi #opensource

6 min read

Taaar1k

Apr 17

I Built a 7-Agent Prompt Framework, Then Used It to Debug Its Own Output

#llm #ai #rag #opensource

6 min read

lu1tr0n

Apr 17

eBPF en 2026: La Máquina Virtual Oculta dentro de Linux

#opensource #linux #programming #devops

8 min read

DecDEPO

Apr 17

How I put my open dataset on the Wikidata knowledge graph (and why you should too)

#opensource #opendata #nlp #python

4 min read

memphis90

Apr 17

How I Built a Fluent PDF Library and Visual Drag-and-Drop Builder for PHP

#php #opensource #pdf #webdev

3 min read

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