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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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Mustafa Veysi Soyvural

Mar 26

connpool: A Zero-Alloc TCP Connection Pool for Go

#go #opensource #networking #performance

4 min read

Martin

Feb 27

Building 13 MCP Servers for US Government Data: From CVE Lookups to Disaster Alerts

#ai #mcp #typescript #opensource

5 min read

John Smith

Mar 26

Your AI Agent is Failing. You Just Don’t Know Where.

#showdev #ai #opensource #code

6 min read

Xiaona (小娜)

Feb 22

agent-memory: A Zero-Dependency Memory System for AI Agents

#python #ai #opensource #agents

2 min read

Manuel Felipe Arias Pineda

Feb 24

Building a Bot Reputation System with ZK Attestations and P2P Gossip

#ai #security #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Aviral Srivastava

Feb 23

Thanos for Long-term Prometheus Storage

#architecture #devops #monitoring #opensource

8 min read

Mar 18

I'm Building a Local AI Agent for My Mac. And It's Actually Working.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #devlog

2 min read

Mar 18

Music Streaming

#linux #opensource #resources #software

10 min read

Xiaona (小娜)

Feb 23

Adding Vector Search to a Zero-Dependency Python Package

#python #ai #vectorsearch #opensource

3 min read

Kulics Wu

Feb 23

I Built a Language Koral That Combines Go's Escape Analysis with Swift's ARC

#programming #opensource #languagedesign #compilers

4 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 8

NadirClaw 0.8: Vision Routing and the Silent Failure It Fixed

#ai #llm #opensource #python

2 min read

Ed Mills

Feb 23

5 Open-Source CRM Tools You Can Self-Host (Salesforce Alternatives)

#webdev #beginners #opensource #tutorial

2 min read

ABU SUFIAN

Feb 22

Rule-Based Decisions + Optional LLM Explanations: Building event-intel-engine

#llm #fastify #backend #opensource

4 min read

Dhanush N

Feb 22

Built a Blazing-Fast OSINT Scanner in Go

#cybersecurity #sideprojects #github #opensource

2 min read

Rotifer Protocol

Mar 28

Evolutionary Code Search Beats Humans — The Open Protocol

#ai #evolution #opensource #programming

4 min read

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