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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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Sanidhya

Jun 5

I got tired of writing the same history table boilerplate, so I built a Postgres extension

#postgres #opensource #sql #database

3 min read

Dhrupo Nil

Jun 5

I built a complete AI-coding handbook in Bangla - words, tools, a story, and a 30-day path

#ai #opensource #beginners #learning

3 min read

Jun 10

I built a voice AI platform that hits 442ms latency. Here's the full architecture.

#ai #python #opensource #tutorial

7 min read

Jun 10

rscrypto v0.4.0: Verifying Constant-Time Behavior Instead of Assuming It

#rust #cryptography #cybersecurity #opensource

11 min read

Jun 6

Building MemBot AI: Creating a Customer Support Assistant with Persistent Memory

#python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Akshat Ray

Jun 6

Fine-tuned 7B LLM as a broke student. And Can't even use it 😭.

#ai #productivity #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

drkrillo

Jun 5

The repo that became its own good-first-issue

#opensource #beginners #community #welcome

3 min read

Anikalp Jaiswal

Jun 5

NVIDIA’s new model on SageMaker, a CLI for AI pipelines, UK AI rules, and a worm threat

#ai #technology #llm #opensource

2 min read

Jun 5

I built a self-hosted AI workspace for macOS — meet Odysee

#python #macos #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jun 5

I benchmarked Python AI-app security scanners. Here's what each catches.

#python #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 5

Gemma 4 makes on-device multimodal AI good enough to ship

#ai #gemma #llm #opensource

4 min read

Solehudin

Jun 5

Stop Writing MR/PR Descriptions Manually — Let AI Do It From Your Git Diff

#ai #opensource #automation #productivity

3 min read

Santi Santamaría Medel

Jun 5

Maybe Coding Agents Don't Need a Bigger Memory. Maybe They Need Continuity.

#ai #opensource #softwareengineering #tooling

13 min read

Jun 5

How I added real-time Slack alerts to an open-source LLM gateway in one day

#showdev #llm #monitoring #opensource

1 min read

Bojan Josifoski

Jun 5

Every WordPress Error Page Beyond 404 Is Broken. I Built a Plugin to Fix Them.

#wordpress #php #opensource #webdev

7 min read

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