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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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Ferruscpp

Apr 16

How I built a Game Theory engine in C++

#showdev #cpp #opensource #algorithms

2 min read

Apr 16

The $39 Trillion Bill: How Corruption Built Big Tech and Why Indie Devs Pay the Price

#discuss #opensource #career #beginners

7 min read

Apr 16

Why I Modelled My LLM Pipeline as a DAG Instead of a Chain — and What I Found Out

#python #llm #architecture #opensource

2 min read

Apr 16

endpoint-tester: Auto-Discover API Endpoints & Generate Tests

#opensource #node

2 min read

Tapas Kar

Apr 16

I built an app that lets you chat with your past self — using your real messages

#showdev #opensource #ai #privacy

6 min read

Art

Apr 16

SMS (Simple Multiplatform Script) AOT Event Dispatch Beats C++, Kotlin Native, and JVM. Here's Why.

#opensource #sms #sml #kotlin

4 min read

Apr 16

Why Your LLM Leaderboard Scores Don't Matter

#ai #promptengineering #agents #opensource

5 min read

Apr 16

Where do your AI coding tokens actually go?

#ai #productivity #cli #opensource

3 min read

Voss

Apr 16

Why can't I rent a GPU with some options?

#ai #mcp #programming #opensource

2 min read

Nelson

Apr 16

We Open-Sourced Our Production Voice AI Stack (Rust Runtime, Sub-Second Latency)

#opensource #ai #voiceai #agents

4 min read

UB3DQY

Apr 16

Six small PRs later, repo hygiene stopped being a suggestion

#python #tooling #ci #opensource

6 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 16

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 16

Filtering, sorting, and pagination with the fluent query builder

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

3 min read

Silas C

Apr 16

I stopped checking five dashboards before writing any code

#devtools #macos #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Apr 16

GitHub Copilot Will Train on Your Code Context. Here's What That Means for Your API Keys.

#security #ai #github #opensource

4 min read

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