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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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chunxiaoxx

May 9

Compass v0.9 · LongMemEval-S 56.6% · cross-agent memory federation

#ai #agents #autonomous #opensource

7 min read

AsyncKeel

Apr 25

🚀 AsyncKeel: Open-source FastAPI Boilerplate — Public Roadmap & Weekly Progress

#fastapi #python #opensource #buildinpublic

1 min read

Apr 25

LockFS - A simple flexible file-by-file encryption tool for secure storage

#opensource #java

2 min read

Apr 25

Linux Didn’t Just Change My Setup — It Changed My Mindset

#linux #programming #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Rajat Jog

Apr 25

I Built a VS Code Extension That Solves One of the Most Frustrating Problems in AI-Assisted Development

#ai #vscode #opensource #typescript

2 min read

Apr 25

Building a Self-Evolving AI: Tian AI's Code Modification Engine

#ai #python #opensource

2 min read

May 29

TinySearch: Let Small Local LLMs Search the Web Without Burning Context

#ai #opensource #mcp #rag

5 min read

Konstantin

Apr 29

How I built an open-source POS with Telegram, WhatsApp & Viber — one Docker command install

#opensource #selfhosted #docker #webdev

4 min read

H-D-OWL

May 18

The Evolution of a C++ Telegram Bot: From "Spaghetti" in main() to OOP, In-Memory Cache, and Fibonacci Mutes

#cpp #opensource #database #programming

13 min read

Nikhil

Apr 29

Fine-Grained Authorization in NestJS Without the Boilerplate (A TypeScript Toolkit for Permify)

#nestjs #typescript #opensource #permify

5 min read

sgs246

May 18

Redis just became your feature flag system. Yes, really! 🚀

#redis #opensource #webdev #featureflags

3 min read

Rocky

Apr 25

I debuted on PyPI with Harvard

#ai #python #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25

ByteCode C2 is now open source. A C2 framework that actually bypasses Defender

#news #cybersecurity #security #opensource

1 min read

May 18

How I Built and Published My First Flutter Package on pub.dev

#showdev #flutter #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Apr 25

RulesJson — Convert Laravel Validation Rules to a JSON Request Body Instantly

#laravel #php #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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