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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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Andrei Spirydovich

Jun 18

I built Proofline because AI agents are getting too good at sounding finished

#ai #opensource #devops #productivity

1 min read

CrisisCore-Systems

Jun 18

Patient-Generated Reports Without Provider Integration

#architecture #opensource #privacy #product

3 min read

NtoX

Jun 18

How I Built a Local Tool That Maps Any Codebase in 55 Seconds No Cloud, No Uploads

#opensource #python #ai #programming

1 min read

Jun 21

I almost added an em-dash remover to my LLM library. Then I tested whether local models even produce em-dashes.

#python #ai #llm #opensource

5 min read

Jun 18

Building a High-Performance CAD Engine in Vanilla JavaScript (No Frameworks)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #performance

2 min read

Benedikt Hollerauer

Jun 18

Reproducing CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKills and phantom Services on a Kind cluster

#kubernetes #devops #rust #opensource

1 min read

Roboticela

Jun 19

07: React Native Icons: From Design to Production in Minutes

#webdev #programming #opensource #learning

2 min read

Jun 18

Two remote MCP servers that answer EU AI Act questions inside Claude and Cursor

#ai #sass #mcp #opensource

1 min read

Jun 18

Reference Registers in NGB Platform: Effective Business State Over Time

#dotnet #postgres #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Hamin Yovan Antony

Jun 18

I Built a Free, Offline CLI Alternative to Otter.ai Using Python and Local AI

#ai #beginners #opensource #automation

1 min read

DasDuo

Jun 18

SSH Menubar Tool for MacOS (ShuttleX)

#swift #opensource #claude #ssh

1 min read

iyin akinpelumi

Jun 18

I Built an Open-Source F1 API With Telemetry, Race Data, and Driver History

#showdev #api #django #opensource

1 min read

Elix

Jun 18

I built a self-hosted 3D world for AI agents

#ai #opensource #selfhosted #threejs

1 min read

CodeKing

Jun 18

"My Two AI Tasks Kept Fighting for the Same Mouse"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

QuantaMind

Jun 19

How to Build a Multi-Step Agent Stress Test: Adversity Sandboxes and Oracle Checks

#ai #opensource #llm #rust

1 min read

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