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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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xuelinger

May 13

Why I Built an Open-Source Alternative to Shorebird for Flutter Android

#flutter #android #opensource #mobile

3 min read

EdFife

May 13

My AI Remembers Its Mistakes. Permanently. Here's the Engineering.

#ai #python #opensource #llm

13 min read

Dan Evans

May 13

I Built a Demo for Deterministic AI Execution Governance

#ai #opensource #security #machinelearning

2 min read

marsmanleo

May 27

Claude.md is for Context. MarsNMe is for Continuity.

#mcp #ai #memory #opensource

2 min read

Gregory Shevchenko

Jun 6

I open-sourced the core of how we get clients cited by AI

#opensource #ai #seo #python

6 min read

May 13

Three Things "Set HTTPS_PROXY" Cannot Stop

#security #ai #linux #opensource

6 min read

Lynkr

Jun 6

I Benchmarked Lynkr Against LiteLLM on the Same Backends.

#ai #opensource #devops #webdev

6 min read

Alan West

May 17

Why your local LLM aces benchmarks but fails real terminal tasks

#llm #ai #opensource #devops

5 min read

Jun 16

Tailwind laid off 75% of engineers and blamed AI. The real story is worse.

#ai #tailwindcss #opensource #layoffs

3 min read

Rumblingb

May 14

I Built a Company Intelligence MCP — SEC Filings, Patents, Domain Data in One Tool

#mcp #aiagents #opensource #developertools

1 min read

Rumblingb

May 14

MCP Health Monitor — Free Tool to Check If Your MCP Servers Are Actually Running

#mcp #devtools #opensource #monitoring

1 min read

Charles

May 14

xcrawl-scraper v1.0.1 — Node.js SDK for Web Scraping

#showdev #javascript #webscraping #opensource

1 min read

May 13

Self-dogfooding: using my own AI-PR scanner to ship a fix to ONNX

#opensource #github #contributing #security

7 min read

Chaitanya Patil

May 13

I built a Node.js package that auto-generates API contracts from real traffic

#node #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

member_0af6418a

May 13

Windows agents keep freezing: lessons from an OpenClaw merge and a Hermes maintainer reply

#opensource #github #ai #programming

2 min read

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