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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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Mavericksantander

Mar 16

Your AI Agent Just Deleted Something It Shouldn't Have. Here's How to Prevent It.

#python #ai #llm #opensource

3 min read

Furqan us Sadain

Mar 16

I Built a Website Compliance Calculator While Researching ADA, GDPR, and Cookie Laws (And Now I’m Slightly Terrified)

#discuss #opensource #webdev #programming

3 min read

sonpiaz

Mar 15

How I Built a Game Bot That Uses LLM Vision for $0.01/Hour (Not $1/Hour)

#ai #gamedev #python #opensource

3 min read

Mar 15

I Built a Lightweight i18n Library for JavaScript — Meet globaly-i18n

#javascript #opensource #npm #react

3 min read

parmarjatin4911@gmail.com

Mar 15

Deploy OpenClaw on AWS EC2 with Amazon Bedrock Using Terraform — No API Keys Required

#ai #aws #opensource #terraform

6 min read

Mar 15

I built a TypeScript client for Ceph Object Storage because the only npm package was 7 years old. Here's What I Learned

#typescript #node #opensource #rookceph

4 min read

Mar 15

I built the first open-source FP8 linear solver in Python — 2-3x faster than cuBLAS

#python #cuda #gpu #opensource

3 min read

Royce

Mar 15

Building PkgPulse: How I Compare npm Packages with Real Data

#webdev #opensource #javascript

6 min read

TateLyman

Mar 15

I Built 22 Dev Tools with Zero Backend — Architecture and Lessons

#webdev #javascript #nextjs #opensource

1 min read

Kyonis

Mar 15

Our Open-Source RegTech Stack: From €5,400/mo to €800/mo (80% Cost Reduction)

#opensource #architecture #python #devops

3 min read

Mar 15

I ran npm audit and DepGra on the same project — here's what each one caught

#security #opensource #python #webdev

4 min read

clearloop for OpenWalrus

Mar 15

Tool permissions and the bash bypass problem

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

11 min read

clearloop for OpenWalrus

Mar 15

How AI frameworks control model thinking

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

10 min read

clearloop for OpenWalrus

Mar 15

Less code, more skills

#ai #architecture #opensource #openwalrus

5 min read

clearloop for OpenWalrus

Mar 15

Built-in tools: what your agent can reach

#ai #research #opensource #openwalrus

12 min read

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