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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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roddcode

Jun 11

My LLM kept calling tools it shouldn't, so I built a state machine to stop it

#typescript #opensource #architecture #ai

4 min read

ER

May 19

Open Source Game Engine with its Own Programming Language

#csharp #monogame #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

logiQode

May 18

Kimi K2.6 Beats Frontier Models in Coding Benchmarks

#llm #opensource #ai #programming

6 min read

Jun 9

Nuxt Ignis reforged

#showdev #webdev #nuxt #opensource

7 min read

Jun 2

Custom kernel developed from scratch.

#programming #opensource #kernel

1 min read

May 18

OpenSRE: Build Your Own AI Incident-Investigation Agent

#ai #sre #devops #opensource

3 min read

Tyler Tan

May 18

Building BitTorrent from Scratch: What 2500 Lines of Modern C++ Can Do

#showdev #cpp #networking #opensource

12 min read

周明

May 18

Recovering Corrupted ROS 2 Bags Without a ROS 2 Runtime

#opensource #cpp #robotics #ros2

5 min read

7onic

May 18

Build & Release #2: Five Patches for One Line of CSS

#devops #css #designtokens #opensource

5 min read

Jun 10

I reverse-engineered where 6 AI coding tools store your prompts — and built a dashboard for it

#webdev #opensource #nextjs #resources

2 min read

Fayaz Bin Salam

May 18

I built a React + Material-UI portfolio template — 198 forks later, here's how it works

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 18

[Tools] Drunk Charts: A Reusable Helm Library for Kubernetes Deployments

#kubernetes #helm #devops #opensource

7 min read

Ragib Ali

May 19

RED CLI

#ai #cybersecurity #opensource #antigravity

1 min read

greymoth

May 20

Building an Inference OS: deterministic-first router for prediction markets

#ai #webdev #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Jun 10

Enterprise-grade AI integration: embedding LLMs into the business processes of large companies — redb.Route.Llm 3.1.1

#dotnet #csharp #llm #opensource

28 min read

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