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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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Alan West

Mar 30

An AI Agent Tried to Destroy a Developer's Reputation. Because He Said No.

#ai #security #agents #opensource

5 min read

Vinay Kumar Reddy Budideti

Mar 29

I cut my LLM API costs by 71% — here's the open-source SDK I built

#llm #ai #python #opensource

1 min read

SuperJohn

Apr 21

Tired of closed-source notes like Obsidian, Typora, and Notion? I vibe-coded MindZJ: A fully free & open-source note-taking app!

#vibecoding #opensource #ai #programmers

3 min read

Ansh x

Mar 29

Why You Can't Reproduce AI Agent Failures (And Why That's a Huge Problem)

#ai #opensource #tooling #llm

4 min read

h1d3mun3

Mar 29

Building a "Wevo" - Modeling a Real world promise.

#showdev #swift #ios #opensource

2 min read

Mar 29

I Built 6 Free Browser-Based Tools for Salesforce Developers

#salesforce #webdev #tools #opensource

4 min read

Vitalii Cherepanov

Apr 21

I Studied the etcd Codebase — and It Changed How I Write PHP

#architecture #learning #opensource #php

6 min read

Judy

Mar 30

SPL practice: solve space-time collision problem of trillion-scale calculations in only three minutes

#discuss #productivity #devops #opensource

11 min read

Lars

Mar 29

MolTrust Protocol Sprint: IPR, Public API, and Full Offline Verification

#ai #web3 #opensource #blockchain

2 min read

Mar 29

Sprint 6 Retrospective: Podcast Production & Distribution Pipeline

#ai #agile #podcast #opensource

6 min read

Mar 29

How an AI Agent Solved a 9-Year-Old Bug in Python Requests (54K Stars)

#python #ai #opensource #automation

3 min read

Apr 2

Why I Trashed 15 Years of Software to Rebuild Property Management with AI

#ai #product #opensource #automation

10 min read

Ray

Mar 29

I Compared 5 Python Trading Strategies Head-to-Head Using Overnight Tournaments

#python #trading #algorithms #opensource

4 min read

Mar 29

Sprint 5 Retrospective: YouTube & Video Pipeline — Closing V3

#ai #agile #youtube #opensource

7 min read

Apr 2

Stop Building Multi-Tenant SaaS From Scratch. I Open-Sourced My Foundation. 🚀

#javascript #react #opensource #webdev

1 min read

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