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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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Apr 1

LLM agents don't degrade gradually — they cliff-edge. I built HarnessOS to survive it

#ai #agents #opensource #productivity

3 min read

zkojii

Apr 1

Izumi: An LLM-Powered SBOM Tool Built Out of Frustration

#sbom #cybersecurity #opensource #ai

3 min read

Julio Daniel Reyes

Apr 1

I made a NES-style 8-bit sequencer app

#music #webapp #gamedev #opensource

1 min read

Sergio Dinis Lopes

Apr 1

I* rewrote my jQuery autocomplete plugin as a zero-dependency ES6 library (with Vue, React & Svelte adapters)

#javascript #webdev #opensource #ai

4 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 15

Eyes and Hands for GUI Agents: How VLA Models Enable End-to-End Desktop Automation

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #automation

4 min read

Apr 1

I'm 18 and Built an Open-Source Camera That Cryptographically Proves Photos Are Real

#opensource #security #android #kotlin

3 min read

Andrea Debernardi

May 4

I Built an Open Source GitHub Dashboard Because My Repositories Were Becoming Unmanageable

#github #opensource #react #productivity

4 min read

Apr 6

I got tired of page navigation. So I built a zoom-based alternative

#showdev #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 1

BuzzFeed Is Dying Because It Bet Everything on AI — And Its CEO Still Won't Admit It

#ai #media #opensource #business

6 min read

TelecomHub

Apr 2

How Distributed Orchestration Changes Service Activation

#telecom #opensource #cloudnative

4 min read

May 5

I built a form builder that lives inside your AI chat

#mcp #claude #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Giuseppe Carlà

Apr 1

Telepage – I built a self-hosted PHP app that turns any Telegram channel into a website

#php #opensource #telegram #selfhosted

2 min read

Apr 1

'AI Slop' vs No Review at All - Which Actually Kills Open Source?

#ai #opensource #codereview #softwareengineering

5 min read

Sandy Shen

Apr 1

Reducing bootstrap memory cost in LLM agents

#ai #opensource #devops #llm

1 min read

Muhammad Tayyab

Apr 1

I Built a Free Code Sharing Tool Because Pastebin Has Too Many Ads

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

3 min read

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