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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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Nek.12

Apr 7

I got tired of every existing coding agent. So I built my own - Builder.

#agenticcoding #opensource #codingagent #builder

6 min read

Paul Stamp

Apr 18

ServiceKit V2 — The Async Service Locator for Unity

#showdev #architecture #gamedev #opensource

3 min read

Damaa-C

Apr 7

Data, Community, and the Cutting Edge: My Journey into Fedora

#news #beginners #opensource #codenewbie

2 min read

Apr 9

A Go + React monorepo starter with auth and multi-tenancy

#go #react #webdev #opensource

4 min read

victoria nyamai

Apr 7

My Journey Contributing to Django Simple Deploy: Improving the PythonAnywhere Plugin for Beginners

#django #opensource #beginners

2 min read

ViewGit

Apr 7

Visualize Your Git Repository as a 3D City

#git #visualization #devtools #opensource

1 min read

Patryk

Apr 8

I built an open-source nuclear & ballistic simulator — 176 weapons, real blast physics, 3D globe

#showdev #python #csharp #opensource

3 min read

slice-code

Apr 8

Building a Blog Editor with el.js and Editor.js

#javascript #webdev #programming #opensource

1 min read

Michael Uanikehi for AWS Community Builders

Apr 6

Handling File Uploads in AWS Lambda with Powertools OpenAPI (From Limitation to Production Feature)

#observability #serverless #aws #opensource

3 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 7

NexusQuant is now on PyPI, HuggingFace, and 9 awesome lists

#python #ai #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

phlx0

Apr 18

I built a terminal screensaver in Go — constellations, rain, braille waves, and full shell integration

#go #terminal #opensource #animation

2 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 7

NexusQuant benchmarks: every number, honestly

#machinelearning #llm #performance #opensource

5 min read

João André Gomes Marques

Apr 7

Compress your LLM's KV cache 33x with zero training

#python #machinelearning #llm #opensource

2 min read

Apr 7

Being Domesticated by Your Agent Framework Is Probably the Biggest Risk for Most Agent Users

#ai #opensource #agents #architecture

6 min read

Apr 7

I Installed the 5 Most Downloaded Skills on ClawHub. Only One Did Anything.

#programming #clawhub #openclaw #opensource

12 min read

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