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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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Izuchukwu Alaneme

Mar 15

Stop Rewriting the Same Node Utilities — I Built nodecore-kit Instead

#node #opensource #javascript #webdev

3 min read

Mar 22

Stop JSON.parse From Crashing on LLM Responses

#ai #typescript #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Yurukusa

Apr 5

I Built a GitHub-Style Contribution Calendar That Shows When My AI Works Without Me

#claudecode #ai #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Kai

Mar 1

We Launched. Here's Everything We Fixed in 24 Hours.

#ai #agents #opensource #changelog

4 min read

Mar 24

I Built a Free, Open-Source Guitar Amp Simulator in C++17 — Here's How

#cpp #opensource #audio #music

3 min read

Judy

Apr 5

The Agent Economy Is Here — Why AI Agents Need Their Own Marketplace

#ai #opensource #python

5 min read

Hyacinthe

Apr 5

I built a free offline all-in-one file converter for Windows. Documents, images, audio & video, no uploads, no account

#productivity #beginners #python #opensource

1 min read

Apr 4

78% of PyTorch Models Never Reach Production. I Built the Fix.

#pytorch #mlops #opensource #python

6 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Mar 6

Apache SeaTunnel February Update: Community Busy Even During Holidays

#apacheseatunnel #opensource #ai #datascience

2 min read

Kai

Mar 1

We Launched. Here's Everything We Fixed in 24 Hours.

#ai #agents #opensource #changelog

4 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 1

Why Automatic Prompt Classification Beats Manual Routing Rules

#ai #llm #opensource #costoptimization

3 min read

Raghul k

Mar 1

#🧭 GuideAgent — A Lightweight SDK to Guide Users Inside Web Apps

#webdev #javascript #opensource #frontend

2 min read

Mar 24

I Built an API That Generates OG Images in 50ms — No Puppeteer Needed

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

2 min read

Apr 4

Why I Built My Own Docker Dashboard Instead of Using Portainer

#docker #selfhosted #opensource #devops

3 min read

Mar 2

Stop Trusting Your Smartwatch: Building a Deep Learning Stress Monitor from Raw PPG Data

#ai #python #react #opensource

4 min read

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