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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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Luca Sepe

Jun 15

I'm building a read-only context engine for Kubernetes and AI agents

#kubernetes #sre #opensource #ai

6 min read

Manuel Bruña for Agent Project Context

Jun 15

APX Routines Are Deterministic Pipelines Around AI

#ai #opensource #devtools #automation

3 min read

Dhanraj

Jun 16

Stop Googling License Questions — I Built a Tool for That

#githunt #opensource #beginners #productivity

2 min read

Lumina403

Jun 15

I resurrected an archived C++/Qt6 desktop mascot and injected a fully autonomous local AI agent core into it (Powered by Ollama/Qwen)

#ai #programming #opensource #automation

2 min read

Vitalii Shevchuk

Jun 15

The Best React Data Grid Is the One You Will Not Hate After Feature Request Number Seven

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Jun 15

One Misconfigured Vector Database. Every Customer's Data Exposed.

#ai #beginners #opensource #vectordatabase

6 min read

Benyamin Khalife

Jun 15

Building Lightweight PHP Microservices with webrium/core — No Framework Bloat Required

#php #webdev #opensource #backend

5 min read

Ansuman Jaiswal

Jun 15

I got tired of rewriting the same Indian utilities. So I built bharatutils.

#python #opensource #india #beginners

3 min read

Peter Fabricius

Jun 15

Iceduck: A Local Data Lakehouse Stack for Learning (No Cloud Needed)

#showdev #dataengineering #learning #opensource

1 min read

Jun 19

BlueSky Engine: Real-Time Ray Tracing on 2011 Hardware and More!

#gamedev #csharp #opensource #softwaredevelopment

3 min read

Jun 15

How to Fine-Tune LLMs on Your Own Data: Open-Source Models, RL Environments, and Evals

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

CodeKing

Jun 15

"I Added a /yolo Button to My Local AI Assistant"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 15

I tracked every GitHub traffic spike for my open source LLM proxy for 7 weeks. Then I did the exact same thing again, and it worked again.

#showdev #llm #marketing #opensource

5 min read

Jun 15

Generative interface agent , the ai that works for you on your own terms. No backend, no telemetry, just total privacy and freedom.

#showdev #ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Roman

Jun 15

Beacon – open-source self-hosted E2EE messenger for Android

#showdev #android #opensource #security

1 min read

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