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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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Arjun

Mar 22

AI Agent That Actually Learns From Its Mistakes (and It Changed How I Think About AI)

#ai #agents #opensource

5 min read

Kai

Mar 9

How we coordinate 21 AI agents shipping a real product (with code)

#ai #agents #buildinpublic #opensource

2 min read

Mar 10

API layer in Twenty codebase - Part 1.0

#twenty #crm #opensource #codebasearchitecture

3 min read

Mar 9

PhotoPrism vs Lychee: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Tom Seidel

Apr 12

AI-Git-Bot — an open-source gateway that connects your Git platforms with AI providers

#ai #opensource #java #claude

1 min read

Marvin Ma

Mar 9

My AI Agent Forgot Yesterday's Debugging. So I Changed the Workflow.

#ai #productivity #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

dudiew

Mar 9

I built a self-hosted daily monitoring bot for Render + Supabase (open source)

#opensource #node

1 min read

Mar 9

sniptt/guards, a comprehensive collection of type guards for TypeScript.

#opensource #guard #typescript #snippt

3 min read

Mar 9

PhotoPrism vs LibrePhotos: Which Should You Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

5 min read

Techfred

Mar 13

Giving AI Hands: Introducing the Open Agent Hardware Layer (OAHL) 🤖🦾

#ai #opensource

3 min read

Mar 13

How I Used One AI to Build Another: A Local AI Code Review Pipeline (For Free)🤖

#devops #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Mar 10

Why AI Agent Payments Need Open-Source Rails

#ai #blockchain #payments #opensource

4 min read

Kevin

Mar 9

This Week in AI: Pentagon Wars, GPT-5.4, and Why 90% Reliability Will Get You Fired

#ai #machinelearning #programming #opensource

6 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 10

The 600x LLM Price Gap Is Your Biggest Optimization Opportunity

#llm #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

angufibo lincoln

Mar 7

Introducing FlameIQ — Deterministic Performance Regression Detection for Python

#cicd #opensource #performance #python

3 min read

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