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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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May 20

How a CrashLoopBackOff turned into my first Microsoft OSS contribution

#opensource #kubernetes #ebpf #observability

6 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

Alan West

Apr 27

How to Stop Your GitHub Issues From Becoming a Graveyard

#github #opensource #automation #productivity

5 min read

Florian Zielasko

Apr 30

Building a Local AI Agent (Part 2): Six UX and UI Design Challenges

#ai #ux #beginners #opensource

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

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 17

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

DacForge

Apr 17

Per-page OG images on an Astro site, without the SaaS

#astro #webdev #typescript #opensource

7 min read

Luis Gerardo Rodriguez Garcia

Apr 17

Why Your 5-Agent System Forgets State (And How to Fix It)

#showdev #ai #opensource #llm

1 min read

David

Apr 16

qwen3.6 scores 73.4 on SWE-bench with only 3B active parameters. here's why that matters.

#ai #llm #opensource #coding

4 min read

David

Apr 16

i cancelled my AI subscriptions. qwen3.6 on my own GPU does the same thing for free.

#ai #opensource #programming #productivity

3 min read

ml3dev

Apr 16

I built an open source tab suspender after The Great Suspender got removed for malware

#productivity #opensource

1 min read

Sakib

Apr 16

Why n8n's Real JavaScript Support Makes Automation Workflows Truly Customizable

#automation #javascript #opensource

2 min read

May 20

I Built a Desktop Chat App for Running Local LLMs Offline

#ai #programming #ollama #opensource

2 min read

Makoto Yui

Apr 16

Introducing Graflow: An Orchestration Engine for AI Agent Workflows

#ai #python #opensource #agents

4 min read

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