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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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charm1987

Mar 2

My AI Dies Every Hour — Here's How It Survives

#ai #agents #devops #opensource

4 min read

Philip Seifert for Temple Enterprise LLC

Mar 2

Introducing Temple Enterprise LLC

#opensource #software #security #devtools

2 min read

David Van Assche (S.L)

Mar 6

Why Your AI Agent Needs Memory That Decays (and How Qdrant Makes It Work)

#qdrant #ai #opensource #python

4 min read

Seenivasa Ramadurai

Apr 5

Run Open Source AI Models with Docker Model Runner

#ai #docker #machinelearning #opensource

4 min read

橋本透

Mar 2

WinClaw AI Testing: Fully Automated Web App Testing Without Writing Test Scripts

#ai #automation #opensource #testing

2 min read

Mar 15

I Built a Lightweight i18n Library for JavaScript — Meet globaly-i18n

#javascript #opensource #npm #react

3 min read

Andreas Ehstand

Mar 25

AUGMANITAI: 1,000+ Terms for What Happens When Humans Interact with LLMs

#ai #nlp #opensource #terminology

2 min read

Uses URL fragments to keep keys off servers

Ali Raza

Mar 26

I built a file transfer tool that can’t spy on you even if it wanted to

#opensource #go #webdev

3 min read

Ibrahim Olawoyin

Mar 25

The First Week Panic: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Making My First Outreachy Contribution

#beginners #career #devjournal #opensource

6 min read

Mar 2

built a free DevOps error search engine — here's why

#devops #kubernetes #docker #opensource

2 min read

Mar 1

Never Repeat Yourself: Give Your LLM Apps Persistent Memory with ContextMD

#ai #llm #opensource #agents

4 min read

Apr 5

LinkedIn Scanned 6,222 Browser Extensions. Your AI Agent's Browser Is Next.

#security #ai #browsers #opensource

5 min read

Apr 4

I Found a Better Way to Build APIs (And It Actually Makes Sense)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #api

2 min read

Seif

Mar 1

Commercial Organ Plugins Cost $400. Mine Cost a Weekend and Some Math.

#blog #python #opensource #sounddesign

5 min read

CloudBased Backup

Mar 2

When Managed Nextcloud Makes More Sense Than Self-Hosting

#nextcloud #opensource #privacy

3 min read

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