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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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Rotifer Protocol

Mar 30

The Agentic Web Needs Evolution Infrastructure

#ai #webdev #evolution #opensource

4 min read

Jim L

Apr 29

Cohere just open-sourced a 5.42 WER speech model - here's what testing it on real audio showed

#ai #machinelearning #nlp #opensource

4 min read

Mar 25

I Built a Nervous System for AI Agents (Not Another Memory Store)

#ai #python #mcp #opensource

5 min read

Mushegh Gevorgyan

Mar 25

AI writes code fast. But who checks the architecture?

#opensource #typescript #ai #webdev

3 min read

Oluwafemi Sosami

Apr 18

Built a Paystack package for Go because our system demanded it

#showdev #api #go #opensource

8 min read

Clément SAILLANT

Apr 18

Open-sourcing a full fine-tuning pipeline for embedded engineering — training toolkit + 35-domain MoE-LoRA model

#embedded #opensource #ai #machinelearning

4 min read

Mar 26

DB data migration is a pain

#sql #java #database #opensource

2 min read

Apr 8

Claude Mythos Can Find Zero-Days. What Happens When Your Coding Agent Can Too?

#security #ai #opensource #devops

4 min read

Apr 29

Why Most 74HC595 Display Drivers Flicker (And How QUAD7SHIFT Avoids It Without Trying)

#arduino #embeddedsystems #cpp #opensource

5 min read

Mutharasu Archunan

Apr 8

The 3 Things AI Coding Agents Still Can't Do (And How I Fixed Them)

#ai #python #programming #opensource

4 min read

c-premus

Mar 27

I Couldn't Find an OAuth 2.1 Proxy for MCP Servers, So I Built One

#go #security #opensource #devops

3 min read

Mar 30

MYTH-OS: The Compiler Pattern for Systemic RPG Generation Complete Technical Whitepaper & Implementation Guide

#gamedev #ai #javascript #opensource

14 min read

Trần Hoàng Tú

Mar 26

How I Built mcpman — A Universal MCP Server Package Manager for 10+ AI IDEs

#typescript #opensource

3 min read

dtannen

Apr 28

I Made a CLI That Yells at Your Code Until It Gets an A

#ai #cli #refactorit #opensource

1 min read

Mar 26

I built a free file converter with Next.js + FastAPI + FFmpeg — here's how

#webdev #nextjs #python #opensource

2 min read

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