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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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Daniel Yarmoluk

Apr 27

I benchmarked RAG vs GraphRAG vs pre-structured knowledge graphs across 45 domains — here's what happened

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

MiniKao

May 16

I'm a QA engineer. After Claude wrote # TODO in my 100th test, I built an MCP server.

#ai #testing #opensource #mcp

6 min read

lipski

Apr 23

I built a browser daemon for AI coding agents because Playwright wasn't enough

#showdev #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

Homer

Apr 23

ElasticRelay: Reliably Streaming Multi‑Source Database Changes into Elasticsearch

#elasticsearch #opensource #mysql #mongodb

7 min read

May 16

I built a Python tool that extracts tables from PDFs and exports to Excel automatically

#python #automation #productivity #opensource

2 min read

ROY

Apr 24

How to Build an AI WhatsApp Receptionist using Python, Flask, and Groq (Llama 3)

#python #ai #webdev #opensource

3 min read

megaphone

Apr 23

KIOKU v0.5.0 + v0.5.1 — unified ingest router + hot cache, shipped same day

#claudecode #opensource #ai #security

9 min read

Zeke

Apr 23

The admiral just quoted our thesis on the Senate floor

#bitcoin #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

ox3adie1

Apr 23

UYAP UDF Dosyalarını Tarayıcıda PDF'e Çeviren Açık Kaynak Araç Nasıl Çalışır

#javascript #pdf #webdev #opensource

3 min read

May 5

Building Scync: Why I made a Zero-Knowledge Secrets Manager for us, Developers.

#opensource #security #webdev #tooling

7 min read

Unicorn Developer

Apr 23

AI integrations: Rely or verify? Checking Semantic Kernel

#ai #programming #csharp #opensource

9 min read

Nikolaos Petridis

May 16

I built an LLM-powered compliance scanner that points at the actual line of code

#opensource #llm #gdpr #devtools

3 min read

Apr 23

A Minimal ~9M Parameter Transformer LLM Trained from Scratch

#challenge #ai #opensource #llm

2 min read

Ted Murray

Apr 23

I Built Two Ollama Tools I Don't Actually Need Yet

#ollama #opensource #selfhosted #ai

6 min read

SPANLENS

May 27

5 gotchas I hit moving LLM logs from Postgres to ClickHouse

#clickhouse #opensource #typescript #postgres

7 min read

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