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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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HR Pulsar

May 18

Four years ago we started building an HR platform

#news #ai #opensource #hrtech

2 min read

xiwuqi

Apr 25

Reviewing AI Agent Permission Changes Before Merge

#githubactions #ai #opensource

3 min read

DevTools exposing hidden model providers

Harsh

May 18

DeepSeek Is Running Inside Your Favorite AI Tool – And Nobody Told You

#discuss #ai #opensource #transparency

4 min read

flyxl

May 18

DataZen: a 10 MB open-source database client built with Tauri and Rust

#showdev #database #opensource #rust

1 min read

May 18

Ujorm3 is out: a tiny, type-safe ORM for JavaBeans & Records

#java #database #productivity #opensource

5 min read

May 29

Free Model Providers to Use with Hermes Agent

#ai #agents #opensource #llm

4 min read

May 27

Don't Wrap the LLM. Make Its Failure Modes Unreachable.

#ai #architecture #opensource #cloudsecurity

20 min read

Christian Böttcher

May 18

🧠 Wie ich eine selbstlernende KI gebaut habe, die über 8.000 SSH‑Angriffe pro Stunde blockiert (und wie sie skaliert

#ai #security #opensource #python

2 min read

Apr 24

How I Built an AI That Translates Code Between 27 Languages (Solo, No Budget)

#webdev #ai #opensource #buildinpublic

5 min read

Cody Smith

Apr 24

In 1965 screens got 1.2 hours a day. Now they get 7. The interface did that.

#chrome #productivity #opensource #digitalwellbeing

4 min read

Mohammed Al Ashaal

Apr 25

I built an open-source cognitive memory layer for AI agents in Go — because amnesia shouldn't be a feature

#ai #programming #opensource #mcp

1 min read

Apr 26

I built a repo structural audit — bus factor, churn, god files, dependency rot, gap analysis

#devtools #opensource #codequality #ai

2 min read

Jayanth

Apr 29

I Built an n8n Workflow That Generates “Top 10” Videos Automatically (System Design + Lessons)

#ai #javascript #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Apr 25

I built a CLI that fixes TypeScript errors automatically

#typescript #productivity #javascript #opensource

1 min read

Pratham

May 8

Windows AppData Junction Migrator: Free Up Your C Drive Without Breaking Apps

#productivity #automation #opensource #ai

3 min read

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