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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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Mar 5

AI writes code fast, but it's missing structure. So I built a methodology layer.

#ai #claudecode #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 16

I Stopped Paying $15/Month for Wispr Flow. Here's the Open-Source Replacement.

#ios #opensource #productivity #privacy

4 min read

Mar 16

I built a mobile workstation for Claude Code with 35+ tools the official app doesn't have

#showdev #claudecode #opensource #android

2 min read

Heapstack

Feb 11

FOSDEM 26 - a quick summary

#fosdem #opensource #security

5 min read

Shashi Bhushan Kumar

Mar 16

Should One User Be Able to Add Multiple Reactions on the Same Post? 🤔

#discuss #opensource #webdev #uxdesign

2 min read

Ali Abbas

Feb 10

How I Addressed the Real Pain Behind ADRs Enforcement?

#opensource #github #programming #productivity

8 min read

Feb 10

Why Runtime Security Isn't Enough — The Case for Memory Integrity

#security #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Swapanth Vakapalli

Mar 16

I built ragway — a Python RAG library controlled by a single YAML file

#python #rag #llm #opensource

2 min read

Anatoly (Vensus)

Feb 10

Build AI-Powered Telegram bots without code: Introducing Coreness

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

6 min read

Alistair

Feb 11

Calendar Feeds: Where It All Started

#opensource #webdev #javascript #webscraping

4 min read

Mar 16

AI Cost Firewall: An OpenAI-Compatible Gateway That Cuts LLM Costs by 75%

#ai #opensource #devops #machinelearning

7 min read

Mar 3

While Everyone Blindly Trusts Their AI Agents, I Mathematically Proved Mine Works — And Registered It on Blockchain

#ai #opensource #blockchain #web3

9 min read

Simon Mak

Feb 14

Building a Financial Data Pipeline: How I Scraped 25 Years of Stock Market Filings with Python and a Graph Database

#showdev #python #opensource #database

4 min read

Mar 16

Building a Local AI Development Stack with LiteLLM + AWS Bedrock + Open WebUI

#ai #aws #llm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 5

Stop Building API Dashboards From Scratch

#webdev #api #opensource #programming

3 min read

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