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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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May 21

Build APIs from Any Data, Without Running a Backend Every Time

#webdev #opensource #api #programming

6 min read

Mervin

May 21

Turn ~800M Free AI Tokens Into a Single OpenAI API with FreeLLMAPI

#opensource #ai #devtools #llm

3 min read

Ewerton

May 21

Como Sumir com o Barulho do Teclado Mecânico no Ubuntu Usando o NoiseTorch

#linux #opensource #productivity #tutorial

4 min read

Hoàng Mạnh Khiêm

May 21

Meilisearch

#database #opensource #performance #rust

10 min read

GokuScraper悟空爬虫

May 21

Why Can't the Chinese Internet Nurture a "Generous Hugging Face"?

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

15 min read

May 21

I built a "brain" for AI coding agents — it never forgets and never stops

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

2 min read

kent-tokyo

May 22

Why Font Rendering in Rust Is Harder Than It Looks

#rust #opensource #webassembly

4 min read

Kishore Bhavnanie

May 21

When DNS TXT Records Become a Backdoor: Lessons from a Go Supply Chain Attack

#cybersecurity #go #opensource #security

7 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission: Write About Hermes Agent

Nimesh Kulkarni

May 30

Your AI Agent Should Text You First

#hermesagentchallenge #ai #opensource #productivity

8 min read

May 21

AI watermark removal is really a media pipeline trust problem

#ai #security #webdev #opensource

9 min read

May 21

Project-as-code for a Directus v9 backend

#directus #projen #opensource #cms

4 min read

amir taherkhani

May 21

Global Open-Source Chat Platform Evaluation

#chat #opensource #kubernetes #architecture

24 min read

Jeff Reese

May 21

I Released a Markdown Editor and 120 People Installed It Before I Told Anyone

#vscode #markdown #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Aleksey Alekseev

May 25

kovax-react 0.8: Tailwind v4 preset, FormField adapters, ColorModeScript, and Storybook

#react #designsystem #tailwindcss #opensource

3 min read

Saravanan Jaichandaran

May 21

Five primitives I exercised end-to-end on world-model-mcp's own repo

#ai #opensource #claude #agents

6 min read

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