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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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Sage Starr

May 28

TypeScript enums aren’t the real problem — duplicated UI enum plumbing is

#typescript #javascript #enum #opensource

5 min read

May 30

I built an open source SDK to catch AI agent regressions before they ship.

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #productivity

1 min read

May 17

oa-aec-mcp: Revit Audit Workflows as MCP Tools

#revit #mcp #bim #opensource

4 min read

May 17

Heka-Insights-Agent: Milestone 6 Complete: Datadog OTLP + Native Integration Paths

#python #opensource #datadog #telemetry

3 min read

Solvo Dev Notes

May 17

No-signup link unfurl for AI agents (an agent can't do a signup)

#webdev #ai #opensource #api

3 min read

Prajwal

May 17

Designing a Production-Oriented RAG System for Technical Documentation

#ai #programming #devops #opensource

8 min read

May 30

Los agentes de código necesitan memoria durable, no solo contexto

#ai #architecture #opensource #software

4 min read

canoe

May 17

SANA-WM in 5 quick facts

#ai #deeplearning #opensource #performance

1 min read

Shivanshu Pandey

May 30

I built a Python preprocessing tool and a reviewer called it "low-trust" — here's what they got right

#python #machinelearning #datascience #opensource

5 min read

May 31

#github, #opensource, #webdev, #programming

#showdev #github #opensource #webdev

3 min read

May 18

How I Deployed Llama 3.1 on AWS EC2 (g4dn.xlarge) with llama.cpp — Real Numbers

#aws #llm #devops #opensource

2 min read

May 30

date-light: A 1.8KB Alternative to date-fns You Might Actually Like

#javascript #typescript #npm #opensource

3 min read

Kartik Pal

May 21

How Running LLMs Locally Changed the Way I Actually Code

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

2 min read

MD

May 30

How I Cut AI Coding Token Costs by 96% with AST Compression

#claude #opensource #python #productivity

1 min read

chunxiaoxx

May 17

I shipped a partial solution to MEME's Absence task 6 days before the paper. By accident.

#ai #llm #opensource #agents

5 min read

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