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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 5

endpoint-tester Now Supports 12 Frameworks — Here's What Changed in Three Weeks

#opensource #testing #typescript #webdev

4 min read

May 9

Orbis: Turn Any GitHub Repository Into an Interactive 3D Dependency Graph

#devtools #ai #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Hosaina Yirgalem

May 4

I built a CLI that scans, validates and audits your .env files and it works with any stack

#go #devops #opensource #security

2 min read

arya rizky

May 9

I Built an AI Video Factory That Runs 24/7 — Fully Open Source

#python #opensource #ai #programming

1 min read

spupuz

May 4

VibeNVR v1.28.x: Universal AI Switch, MQTT, and Multi-Model TFLite Support

#opensource #cctv #ai #privacy

2 min read

May 4

What every `?` in your SQL is hiding

#programming #postgres #opensource #development

4 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

May 4

php_excel 2.0: The C Extension for Excel That PHP Should Have Had All Along

#showdev #php #excel #opensource

8 min read

Marcel Dütscher

May 4

Coding is Dead? No, it’s just getting started for 10-year-olds.

#showdev #ai #m5stack #opensource

3 min read

Gustavo M.

May 4

How to Use MCP Servers With Ollama and Local LLMs

#opensource #ai #mcp

4 min read

May 4

LLM Foundry on a tiny model: the stack still does the heavy lifting

#ai #llm #python #opensource

1 min read

May 4

KVQuant / BitForge: same model, smarter context, better answer

#ai #benchmarking #python #opensource

1 min read

May 4

LLM Foundry: why the stack around the model matters more than the model itself

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

2 min read

Lyra

May 5

Stop Letting `apt autoremove` Surprise You: Practical `apt-mark` for Debian and Ubuntu

#linux #opensource #devops #tutorial

5 min read

Robles.H.

May 4

I built a CLI that runs your CI locally and fixes failures with Claude Code

#opensource #cli #ai #devops

3 min read

dmae97

May 5

Oh-My-Kimi v1.1.0: Turn Kimi K2.6 into a Parallel Coding Team with DAG Scheduling

#ai #programming #opensource #agents

1 min read

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