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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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Anna Jambhulkar

May 14

Looking for developers to test and review NEES Core Engine — a governed runtime layer for AI apps

#discuss #devops #opensource #startup

2 min read

May 15

I built a free, local-first Postman alternative — no account, no cloud, no subscription

#api #testing #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Apr 15

Beyond CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md: when your coding agent needs a behavior spec

#ai #coding #opensource #productivity

6 min read

Okeke Chukwudubem

May 14

I Built a Private AI Brain on My Phone. No Cloud. No APIs. No Limits.

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Shawn Sammartano

Apr 11

I built a crash-safe AI memory daemon that survives kill -9. Here's what it does.

#showdev #go #ai #opensource

3 min read

Apr 15

Introducing SynapseKit: The Async-Native Python LLM Framework I Built Because LangChain's Async is Broken

#python #mcp #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Loudi Agri

Apr 11

How We Built an AI Agricultural Assistant for Rwandan Rice Farmers

#ai #agriculture #africa #opensource

3 min read

Muhammad Muzammil

May 4

Building Production-Ready RAG is Harder Than You Think (Here's How to Fix It)

#python #langchain #opensource #rag

4 min read

May 4

🎬 I Built a Universal Video Player for HLS, DASH & MP4 (Now with Subtitles, Fullscreen & Quality Control)

#javascript #webdev #npm #opensource

2 min read

RagLeap

Apr 11

I Made My AI Manager Work Across Telegram, WhatsApp, Web, and Phone Call — With Shared Memory

#python #ai #architecture #opensource

2 min read

1r0nw1ll

Apr 10

Cert-gating every tool call: zero-trust for AI agents

#ai #security #opensource #python

9 min read

Midas126

Apr 11

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Guide to Semantic Code Search with LLMs

#ai #machinelearning #llm #opensource

6 min read

Apr 11

Cryptographic Proof of Agent-to-Agent Handoffs in Python

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

5 min read

May 4

When PowerShell Classes and Functions Depend on Each Other — How PSScriptBuilder Handles It

#powershell #devtools #automation #opensource

3 min read

SidClaw

Apr 10

How to add human approval to MCP tool calls — no code changes

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

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