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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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Lynkr

Jun 7

Run CrewAI With 50% Lower LLM Cost Using Lynkr

#ai #opensource #tutorial #devops

8 min read

Olajide Olamide

May 25

Debugging CodeIgniter Apps From Logs Alone Was Not Enough, So I Built DEX

#php #codeigniter #opensource #monitoring

4 min read

kaushal trivedi

May 26

Stop rebuilding memory and orchestration for every AI agent you build

#ai #langchain #agents #opensource

3 min read

May 24

I built a self-hosted CI/CD platform with persistent queue, encrypted secrets, and rollback UI — here's what I learned

#opensource #devops #typescript #react

3 min read

Thomas Connally

May 24

The Hidden Tax of AI-Assisted Development (And How I Fixed It)

#ai #programming #python #opensource

4 min read

May 24

I Built a Plain-Text Personal Productivity CLI in Rust — and It Lives in Your Terminal Forever

#rust #productivity #cli #opensource

5 min read

Ali Erdem

May 25

I built a free QR code generator with Next.js and Supabase — here's what I learned

#nextjs #supabase #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Joshua Varghese

Jun 7

How I stopped 100 goroutines from hammering my gRPC server — Loom Part 2

#go #opensource #devops #github

2 min read

Jun 17

GoHeapGuard v1.0.0 - Eliminate GC Pauses in Go

#go #performance #opensource

2 min read

Batuhan Yılmaz

May 24

Building EcoTraceML: A Zero-Dependency GreenAI Tool to Track and Export Model Training Carbon Footprints 🌲⚡

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Borja Ros Medina

May 25

He creado una empresa ficticia IT/OT para poder encontrar sus vulnerabilidades y reforzar su seguridad en sus activos críticos

#cybersecurity #opensource #python #linux

1 min read

May 24

Building an Open MIT-Licensed Ephemeris Engine in C — JPL Moshier Ephemeris

#programming #opensource

2 min read

sravan27

Jun 7

9 silent-row-loss fixes in 7 days across 7 OSS databases

#javascript #database #webdev #opensource

3 min read

YUVRAJ

May 24

I gave an AI a Kill Switch. Here's what I learned about trust in local-first tooling.

#opensource #ai #git #webdev

5 min read

May 24

I Built 16 Free Dev Tools That Never Touch Your Data — Here's How

#showdev #opensource #privacy #tooling

2 min read

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