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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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Charles Wu for seekdb

Apr 27

seekdb Core Features: Hybrid Search & AI Functions

#ai #vectordatabase #opensource #database

3 min read

Charles Wu for seekdb

Apr 27

Building RAG & Knowledge Bases with seekdb: Three Paths, One Stack

#ai #database #opensource #rag

4 min read

Apr 27

COSS Weekly: Hugging Face on Open vs. Closed, Orkes Raises $60M, DeepSeek seeks $20B valuation, and more

#opensource #coss #weekly

3 min read

Abhijith B

Apr 28

I built a small tool that generates a resume from a public URL.

#showdev #career #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

EJ

Apr 28

I built a tiny AI company that runs on my laptop (multi-agent application)

#ai #agents #opensource #programming

2 min read

Alan West

May 1

How to Stop Drowning in Open Model Releases and Actually Run One Locally

#llm #opensource #ai #machinelearning

5 min read

abdu masah

Apr 28

Arrowjet is now a Cross-Database Sync Tool in Python (PG, MySQL, Redshift)

#python #database #dataengineering #opensource

2 min read

Apr 27

I built kicad-mcp-pro: an open-source MCP server for AI-assisted KiCad workflows

#opensource #ai #hardware #mcp

2 min read

Apr 27

Security Hardening Update for create-authenik8-app: I fixed the real issues people called out

#buildinpublic #webdev #opensource #security

3 min read

Ertugrul

Apr 27

PromptLedger v0.4 — Faster prompt logging, lightweight markers, and better prompt organization

#showdev #promptengineering #python #opensource

8 min read

Owen

Apr 27

Llama 4 API Access: Complete Developer Guide (Scout, Maverick, ofox)

#ai #llama #opensource #meta

5 min read

Emad Gadou

Apr 27

I've been curating FOSS & privacy apps on Telegram for 8 months. Here's how I do it.

#showdev #opensource #privacy #productivity

3 min read

Asif Iqbal

Apr 27

🚀 Introducing Laravel Shortcodes – Bring WordPress-like Shortcodes to Laravel

#showdev #laravel #opensource #php

1 min read

Eduardo Villão

Apr 27

Masky.js: A Lightweight Alternative to Inputmask, Cleave.js, and IMask

#javascript #webdev #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Aleksandar Vučenić

May 20

Gary Winston Won: How “Antitrust” Predicted the Fate of Developers

#ai #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

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