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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 29

Ageless Linux Is the Most Beautifully Petty Protest Against California's War on Open Source

#linux #opensource #privacy #law

4 min read

Christian Alexander Nonis

Mar 29

From RAG to a “memory layer”: what building an AI assistant taught us

#ai #machinelearning #rag #opensource

3 min read

Mar 29

GPT4All Has a Free API: Run Private LLMs Locally with Python Bindings

#ai #python #llm #opensource

2 min read

Mar 29

💥 I Was Tired of Boring UIs, So I Built a CSS Framework Straight Out of a 1962 Comic Book

#showdev #css #opensource #webdev

5 min read

Vinh Nguyen for Stewie

Mar 29

AI agent context still misses the product layer

#ai #llm #agents #opensource

5 min read

Sammit Pal

Mar 29

genkode — Random ID & String Generator for Node.js

#node #typescript #npm #opensource

4 min read

Mar 29

How we Built a Free, Anonymous Survey & Quiz Tool — No Login, No Tracking

#webdev #opensource #javascript #buildinpublic

2 min read

WAzion

Mar 29

How I Applied Cognitive Psychology to Give AI Agents Real Memory

#ai #python #opensource #claudecode

8 min read

Mar 29

I Made 4 AI Agents Debate Each Other. Here's Why You Should Never Trust a Single LLM Answer Again.

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

5 min read

Ray

Mar 29

I ran a self-hosted AI trading strategy lab for 30 days. Here is what happened.

#python #algotrading #selfhosted #opensource

2 min read

SangheeSon

Mar 29

My friend unplugged my Raspberry Pi — so I built a homelab manager

#go #selfhosted #docker #opensource

2 min read

Mar 29

How Signal-Based Routing Actually Works (and the 3 Times It Broke)

#ai #opensource #claudecode #devtools

6 min read

Mar 30

Vibe coding is a black box. I got tired of guessing and started measuring.

#ai #productivity #devtools #opensource

3 min read

jidonglab

Mar 30

contextzip gain --graph: Watch Your Daily Savings Grow

#ai #productivity #opensource #claudecode

2 min read

Sammegh Banjara

Mar 29

How I built a "Gatekeeper" for AI Agents (And why prompt filtering isn't enough)

#ai #opensource #security #automation

2 min read

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