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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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Apr 27

UTMP being phased out: - Why "who" returns empty output on modern ubuntu

#ubuntu #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

Apr 27

I built a peer review platform for GitHub repos because #Trending is broken

#showdev #github #opensource #webdev

1 min read

Zeke

Apr 27

Chaintip freshness cert: signed identity scores that age with the chain

#bitcoin #lightning #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Apr 27

From README.md to README.mp4: Why AI-Native Repositories Need a Conceptual Entry Point

#ai #opensource #documentation #architecture

4 min read

Kat Laszlo

Apr 27

I repurposed Karpathy's LLM Wiki for product discovery. It worked surprisingly well.

#opensource #ai #productmanagement #llm

2 min read

Paul Stamp

Apr 27

Your GitHub README Is Broken for UK Developers (and You Haven't Noticed)

#github #opensource #unity3d #programming

5 min read

Charles Wu for seekdb

Apr 27

seekdb Core Features: Hybrid Search & AI Functions

#ai #vectordatabase #opensource #database

3 min read

Charles Wu for seekdb

Apr 27

Building RAG & Knowledge Bases with seekdb: Three Paths, One Stack

#ai #database #opensource #rag

4 min read

Apr 27

COSS Weekly: Hugging Face on Open vs. Closed, Orkes Raises $60M, DeepSeek seeks $20B valuation, and more

#opensource #coss #weekly

3 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 27

Design Systems : How They Shape Developer Experience in Modern Product Building

#opensource #cloudnative #tutorial #beginners

11 min read

Abhijith B

Apr 28

I built a small tool that generates a resume from a public URL.

#showdev #career #opensource #sideprojects

1 min read

EJ

Apr 28

I built a tiny AI company that runs on my laptop (multi-agent application)

#ai #agents #opensource #programming

2 min read

abdu masah

Apr 28

Arrowjet is now a Cross-Database Sync Tool in Python (PG, MySQL, Redshift)

#python #database #dataengineering #opensource

2 min read

Alan West

May 1

How to Stop Drowning in Open Model Releases and Actually Run One Locally

#llm #opensource #ai #machinelearning

5 min read

Apr 27

I built kicad-mcp-pro: an open-source MCP server for AI-assisted KiCad workflows

#opensource #ai #hardware #mcp

2 min read

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