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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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Satwik Sai Prakash Sahoo

Jun 15

Merging My First PR for GSoC!

#gsoc #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Jun 1

Cursor vs Claude Code vs Aider — which AI coding tool actually saves time

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

3 min read

h-wata

Jun 2

Show DEV: kioku-mesh — shared long-term memory for AI coding agents across PCs

#showdev #opensource #ai #mcp

2 min read

Jun 1

Your Coding Agent Doesn't Need Your Secrets

#ai #programming #opensource #agents

7 min read

Jun 1

Claude Code as a Daily Driver: CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCP

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Kristian Ivanov

Jun 1

I benchmarked my own semantic cache against RedisVL and Upstash for a week. Here is what actually held up

#ai #valkey #performance #opensource

6 min read

Jun 2

How to download Youtube Videos & Playlists with yt-dlp (100% Free)

#archlinux #cli #opensource #tutorial

1 min read

Jun 1

ZpriteForge

#webdev #programming #opensource #marketing

1 min read

WinstonRedGuard

Jun 1

Why your OSINT tool lies to you

#osint #cybersecurity #python #opensource

3 min read

kaibuild

Jun 1

How to see what your self-hosted Docker Compose stack exposes

#docker #opensource #cli

3 min read

Kushaalbadavath

Jun 2

I Got Tired of Repeating the Same Setup for Every Project, So I Built a CLI

#opensource #javascript #npm #productivity

1 min read

Jun 6

Carbon-Aware Model Training: Scheduling GPU Workloads Around Electricity Carbon Intensity

#pytorch #python #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Manuel Bruña for Agent Project Context

Jun 15

AGENTS.md, project.json, and rules: the smallest APC boundary that works

#ai #opensource #devtools #tutorial

3 min read

Akshay Kumar Dadheech

Jun 2

I built an open-source AirDrop alternative that works in any browser — no app, no account, no cloud

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Siddharth Pandey

Jun 1

How infrawise Catches the DynamoDB Scan You Didn't Know You Were Making

#opensource #typescript #dynamodb #mcp

4 min read

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