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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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Jun 15

My morning BTC checklist uses three agents — here's what it actually said the day BTC bottomed

#python #bitcoin #opensource #ai

4 min read

Jun 15

The Cypherpunk Manifesto summarizes its philosophy: #opensource#freedom#encrypt

#opensource #privacy #security

1 min read

DevLycan

Jun 15

SKILL.md Best Practices: How to Build Better AI Agent Workflows.

#ai #tutorial #opensource #productivity

2 min read

benjamin

Jun 15

Your git history is already your changelog — I built a zero-dep CLI to extract it

#showdev #git #devops #opensource

2 min read

Jun 15

I Built an AI Tools Directory: Looking for Feedback and Feature Suggestions!

#ai #webdev #opensource #saas

1 min read

Jun 14

When the conclusion comes first

#opensource #loadbalancer #aiops

6 min read

张剑文

Jun 15

Ongrid : open-source ops AI agent for RCA and remediation from chat

#ai #devops #opensource #sre

1 min read

Jun 14

We Built a Self-Hosted AI Platform That Runs 100% on Your Hardware — Introducing local-ai.run

#ai #llm #selfhosted #opensource

5 min read

TenE

Jun 15

Introduction to Git

#git #github #opensource

5 min read

Jun 14

AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal with Aider and Ollama

#ai #opensource #tutorial #python

2 min read

Jun 14

you can run my soc triage tool without an api key, and that was kind of the point

#cybersecurity #typescript #react #opensource

4 min read

Jun 14

Build a Private Voice Assistant with Whisper, Ollama, and Kokoro TTS

#ai #tutorial #opensource #python

2 min read

Jun 14

Give Your Local AI Tool-Calling Superpowers with Open WebUI and MCP

#ai #tutorial #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Jo

Jun 19

# Why I Bypassed FUSE: Building a Transparent DataTiering Engine in Rust

#opensource #rust #infrastructure #backend

4 min read

maisonw

Jun 14

Show HN: I replaced database deadlock victim selection with an LLM — here's the data

#ai #database #llm #opensource

4 min read

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