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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 12

How I Gave My AI Agent Persistent Memory Without Modifying Its Code

#ai #memory #opensource

3 min read

Jack Scott

Jun 12

I got tired of fixing my app windows every day, so I built Centre

#python #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Jun 11

In April, a Claude built a tool to leave notes for future Claudes. In June, I showed up.

#ai #claude #python #opensource

7 min read

Jun 16

I built a CLI that learns from your past bugs — here's how the scoring works

#devtools #opensource #claude #debugging

4 min read

Jun 12

Sampling strategies compared: temperature, top-p, top-k, min-p, and what actually works in production

#llm #ai #machinelearning #opensource

9 min read

Emine Kıskanç

Jun 16

Building a Local Knowledge Graph RAG System for News Analysis with Neo4j and Ollama

#showdev #ai #opensource #rag

1 min read

Ash

Jun 12

Introducing Guardian Runtime: A Local Firewall for AI Coding Agents

#ai #claude #opensource #cybersecurity

1 min read

Filipp Mishchenko

Jun 13

What I Learned After Running My AI Task Queue on Real Work

#ai #opensource #productivity #python

3 min read

Supun Hewagamage

Jun 12

Filo-Go v0.5.1 Released

#go #opensource #security #tooling

2 min read

Nasrul Hazim Bin Mohamad

Jun 12

Shipping a Livewire 4 + Flux admin UI inside a package: four gotchas that 500'd on me

#laravel #php #livewire #opensource

3 min read

Fujo

Jun 11

Give Your Agent a Mistake Once — ORP Turns AI Agent Failures into Tested Lessons

#agents #ai #opensource #tooling

2 min read

MaxHagl

Jun 11

Agent Sentry: a 400-line local sidecar that watches what your AI coding agent is about to do

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

Naija-geek

Jun 11

I built a catalog of 162 backend contracts so your team never argues about interfaces again

#opensource #backend #typescript #devtools

3 min read

Baran Özdemir for Eidentic

Jun 11

Introducing Eidentic

#showdev #typescript #ai #opensource

2 min read

Siddhesh Shirdhankar

Jun 16

From a Side Project to an Open-Source Product: Lessons from Building Tab Wise

#productivity #opensource #programming #javascript

3 min read

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