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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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Runix

Mar 19

How to Self-Host an AI Customer Chat Agent with Ollama + ChatterMate (No API Keys Needed)

#opensource #ai #selfhosted #tutorial

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 22

Kiwi-chan's Birch Log Blues & The Relentless Pursuit of Wood

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Mary Olowu

Apr 22

Stop Writing Custom Scrapers: Index Static Content into Meilisearch with One Config

#meilisearch #search #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Apr 22

I Built a Carbon Footprint Calculator That Generates Unique SVG Fingerprints Here’s How Earth Day 2026 🌍

#opensource #webdev #sustainability #ai

7 min read

linou518

Mar 19

The Small Model Revolution 2026: 3B Parameters on Raspberry Pi — Edge AI's New Sweet Spot

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

Mar 19

Created a PRD for My Task Tracker Project (Focused on OSS Devs)

#buildinpublic #opensource #webdev #productdesign

1 min read

Mar 19

I built a local system for spinning up small tools over the past two weeks and just open sourced it

#opensource #ai #javascript #productivity

2 min read

Werner Kasselman

Apr 22

the next software stack needs more than code generation

#ai #opensource #architecture #startup

5 min read

Ezhil Sivaraj SR

Apr 22

I Tried Vinext The Build Felt Slightly Better

#webdev #nextjs #vite #opensource

8 min read

F1

Mar 19

I Opened an Intranet RDP Desktop in a Browser with One Command — A Technical Comparison of Shield CLI vs Popular Tunnel Tools

#opensource

11 min read

Apr 22

I Got Tired of Class-Heavy UI Code — So I Kept Going (Juice Part 4)

#webdev #frontend #opensource #css

4 min read

Richard Iannone

Mar 18

Pointblank: Data Validation That's Actually Beautiful

#python #data #opensource #dataquality

5 min read

LEONARDO DE SOUZA JUNIOR

Mar 19

Como construí uma ferramenta open source de auditoria LGPD com IA local (sem enviar dados para a nuvem)

#python #opensource #security #ai

2 min read

Mar 19

Dogfooding found 22 bugs my 1,548 tests missed

#buildinpublic #testing #opensource #devlog

15 min read

Mar 20

Running Local LLMs: Complete Privacy-First AI Setup Guide

#ai #privacy #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

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