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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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Mar 17

LLMxRay: A Local Observatory for Understanding How LLMs Think

#news #ai #opensource #learning

2 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 20

Kiwi-chan's Log: The Great Log Acquisition Struggle

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Abdullah

Apr 20

I built a full Freelancer OS in 2 weeks | with a no-login client portal powered by Groq AI

#nextjs #supabase #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Aníbal Jorquera

Mar 16

Serverless on AWS without infrastructure boilerplate

#serverless #aws #typescript #opensource

5 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 20

Kiwi-chan's Log: Persistent Logging & Pathfinding Tweaks

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Erik Koo

Mar 17

I got tired of repackaging the same AI context, so I built a Go CLI

#go #ai #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Mar 17

We Scanned 3 AI Frameworks for EU AI Act Compliance — Here's What We Found

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

5 min read

tazsat0512

Mar 30

How I Built Open-Source Guardrails That Auto-Stop Runaway AI Agents

#ai #opensource #typescript #python

6 min read

Mar 17

An LLM Failed 7 Times to Publish an Agent Capability. Then It Built a Docker Service Instead.

#ai #agents #a2a #opensource

6 min read

Apr 20

Designing a practical sorting benchmark across Python, Rust, and C

#benchmark #webdev #opensource #algorithms

2 min read

Albert Mavashev

Mar 30

Five Lessons from Building a Production OpenClaw Plugin

#ai #typescript #openclaw #opensource

5 min read

Mar 17

Helpdesk

#opensource #productivity #resources #tooling

7 min read

Albert Mavashev

Mar 18

I burned $153 in 30 minutes with an agent loop — here's the pattern that stopped it

#python #ai #agents #opensource

2 min read

AI Gov Dev for Aguardic

Mar 17

Microsoft and Palo Alto Are Defining Agent Security. Here's What's Still Missing.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

7 min read

Apr 20

MCP has no security model. Here's how to fix it in 2 minutes.

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

4 min read

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