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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 24

From a Python Library to a Universal API — My CosmoTalker Journey as a CSE Student

#api #cosmotalker #opensource

2 min read

mikebains41-debug

May 20

"How I discovered a hidden 146W power draw on NVIDIA A100 GPUs (and built an open‑source fix)”

#showdev #monitoring #opensource #performance

2 min read

Alex Voste

May 19

I built a build tool in Go — and now I'm slowly rewriting pieces in Rust (fz 1.9.0 release)

#go #rust #buildsystem #opensource

2 min read

WonderLab

May 20

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 70): Claude Plugins Official — A Complete Tour of Anthropic's Official Claude Code Plugin Ecosystem

#opensource #claude #mcp #agentskills

9 min read

Kotcherla Murali Krishna

May 19

Modular LLM Inference Engine from Scratch

#python #opensource #llm #machinelearning

6 min read

May 19

AI is slowly destroying open source and its not even done yet

#ai #opensource

3 min read

ROBERTO ANGUITA MARTIN

May 19

The WordPress.org freemium trap: how to ship a Pro plugin without getting suspended

#wordpress #php #opensource #webdev

4 min read

May 19

I Built a Programming Language from Scratch — No C, No LLVM, Just Raw Assembly

#programming #opensource #systems #machinelearning

3 min read

Creative Brain Inc

May 19

I built a local-first dashboard for everything Claude Code does on my machine

#claude #ai #nextjs #opensource

8 min read

Alan West

May 19

How to Block AI Bot Spam in Your GitHub Repo Using Git's Author Filters

#git #github #devops #opensource

5 min read

May 20

Score Any CVSS Vector Offline - v3.1 and v4.0, Zero Dependencies

#security #javascript #webdev #opensource

2 min read

May 19

Why a multi-agent protocol that only enables note-passing leaves most of the value on the table.

#ai #claude #opensource #beginners

5 min read

Mirza Saikat Ahmmed

May 19

git-ai-pilot - Automate Your Entire Git Workflow With AI Commit Messages & Built-in Security Scanning

#git #ai #devtools #opensource

5 min read

Planit

May 24

I Built a Free Offline-First Event Operations Platform at 13. Here's Why the Architecture Is Different.

#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic #javascript

5 min read

isabelle dubuis

May 20

Voice AI metrics no one writes about but every production team tracks

#ai #opensource #python

6 min read

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