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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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Apr 12

Connecting Flutter to Vehicle Signals: Building a Dart SDK for Eclipse KUKSA

#flutter #dart #automotive #opensource

5 min read

olko

Apr 16

queryd: driver-agnostic slow query detection for Node.js (optional Prisma)

#postgres #prisma #monitoring #opensource

2 min read

Midas126

Apr 12

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

5 min read

Midas126

Apr 12

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

6 min read

May 5

The perfect agent orchestration tool for your friendly ADHD developer

#claude #gemini #ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 12

Title: We Built an AI That Remembers Why Your Codebase Is the Way It Is

#ai #devtools #github #opensource

3 min read

Albert Mavashev

Apr 12

AI Agents Are Cross-Cutting. Your Controls Aren't.

#ai #architecture #devops #opensource

4 min read

George Psistakis for Trent AI

Apr 16

How to Audit Your OpenClaw Setup for Security Risks in Under 5 Minutes

#openclaw #security #ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 12

I Built a Universal Self-Evolution Framework for AI Agents — And Open Sourced It

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 12

I Found a Stateless LLM Runtime on GitHub — It Dynamically Loads Models Per Request

#ai #opensource #rust #python

1 min read

Apr 12

Hermes Agent: The Open Source AI Agent That Actually Remembers You

#ai #opensource #selfhosted #productivity

3 min read

Apr 12

"Behold Dennis The Forge" (or how the chickens helped give DEX a home)

#opensource #saas #programming #software

4 min read

Phi Thành

Apr 12

I built an open-source trading RSS directory (inspired by public API lists)

#showdev #opensource #resources #sideprojects

2 min read

capman

Apr 12

Capman: Stop Routing Every Intent Through an LLM

#ai #web3 #typescript #opensource

5 min read

Apr 11

I scanned the most famous AI coding repos on GitHub. Here's what I found

#ai #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

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