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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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Archrad

Apr 17

ArchRad 0.3.0 — Two commands to find architecture violations in your existing stack

#architecture #devops #opensource #platformengineering

4 min read

Apr 17

I built an open-source Python tool to detect drift in embedding spaces

#python #machinelearning #opensource #ai

3 min read

Clément SAILLANT

Apr 18

Open-sourcing a full fine-tuning pipeline for embedded engineering — training toolkit + 35-domain MoE-LoRA model

#embedded #opensource #ai #machinelearning

4 min read

Avinash Amudala

Apr 16

Why Your AI Agent Has Root Access to Everything (And How to Fix It in 3 Lines of Python)

#ai #python #security #opensource

1 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 16

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Jedsadakorn Suma

Apr 17

Self-host Open WebUI + Ollama in production — the config nobody writes about

#selfhosted #docker #ollama #opensource

1 min read

Jedsadakorn Suma

Apr 17

I built 3 MCP servers so I can ask Claude about my DevOps stack

#devops #opensource #claude #mcp

1 min read

freerave

Apr 16

We Hit 2,500 in 15 Days — And I Want to Make Every Dev Lazier (Productively)

#webdev #opensource #career #productivity

4 min read

Emre Demir

Apr 17

Video bearbeiten mit KI: HyperFrames für die Videobearbeitung

#agents #ai #javascript #opensource

8 min read

Marc Gille-Sepehri

Apr 16

Self-Starting Processes: Timer Events, Mailbox Polling, and Why Your Agentic Workflows Should Launch Themselves

#agenticbpm #bpmn #opensource

6 min read

Apr 16

AI Reproducibility Crisis: Why Claims Fail to Verify

#ai #research #opensource #machinelearning

6 min read

Apr 16

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is Unverified: Qwen3.5 is Real

#qwen #opensource #aimodels #machinelearning

7 min read

David

Apr 16

anthropic charges $25/M tokens for opus 4.7. alibaba just released the same capability for free.

#ai #programming #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Apr 16

Title: How to add a governance layer to your LangChain agent in 3 lines

#python #langchain #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

Apr 17

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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