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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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Jakub T. Jankiewicz

Jun 11

How to Start with Open Source - AMA

#ama #opensource #community #meeting

1 min read

yolo-auto

Jun 15

we built you a flat-rate unlimited llm provider for $6/mo

#ai #productivity #opensource #agents

3 min read

fred

Jun 12

Guard Skills: The AI Code Quality Alternative That Catches Failure Modes Before They Ship

#ai #opensource #devops #testing

8 min read

Alex Bogle

Jun 10

I Contributed to the Awesome AI Second Brain Repo

#ai #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Jun 10

I kill -9'd a running AI agent mid-task. It resumed without re-spending a cent.

#ai #llm #devops #opensource

3 min read

Jun 10

I Built a 1 MB Android Widget for DeepSeek AI – Here’s How It Works (and Why You Might Want It)

#android #opensource #deepseek #kotlin

3 min read

Baran Özdemir for Eidentic

Jun 11

Memory beats full context on LongMemEval — and the wins we don't get

#ai #typescript #llm #opensource

2 min read

Sourav Jha

Jun 10

I Thought Building an Anonymous Email Platform Would Be Easy. I Was Wrong.

#anonymous #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Aleksandr Shchuka

Jun 10

mirabilis: a one-command sandbox for autonomous Claude Code that ended up patching itself

#ai #docker #go #opensource

7 min read

Jun 10

I built a desktop app that automatically saves your mental context while coding — so interruptions stop costing you 20 minutes.

#webdev #productivity #opensource #software

1 min read

AmosQuety

Jun 10

Why Your Python Docstrings Lie (And How to Fix It)

#python #documentation #tooling #opensource

2 min read

Jun 15

Your RAG System Is Broken. Your Chunks Are Why.

#ai #vectordatabase #devops #opensource

5 min read

Akanksha Trehun

Jun 13

Week 2: Pull Requests, Rejected Code, and the Art of Not Breaking Things

#devjournal #git #opensource #ruby

8 min read

Jun 10

I built a zero-dependency env variable validator for Node.js — env-guard

#javascript #opensource #webdev #node

1 min read

Jun 10

Konsey: a multi-LLM council where a model can't verify its own output

#opensource #ai #llm #python

1 min read

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