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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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Brandon

Jun 20

Building repository-local memory for AI-assisted development

#ai #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jun 20

How Sarva keeps the same GPU multipler on the cost side and the earn side without the ledger drifting

#python #fastapi #opensource #distributed

6 min read

Jun 20

KV cache and PagedAttention: what they do and why they matter

#llm #ai #performance #opensource

8 min read

Jun 20

CortexOps vs Langfuse: Open Source AI Observability Compared

#ai #llm #monitoring #opensource

3 min read

Oleksandr Kaiukov

Jun 20

I Built a Free Currency Converter API — No API Key, No Signup

#api #currency #webdev #opensource

4 min read

侯垒

Jun 20

Stop Flying Blind with Coding Agents: Inspect Claude Code and Codex Requests with ccglass

#ai #opensource #productivity #devbugsmash

4 min read

Horia Stan

Jun 19

One command for 13 AI coding-assistant context files

#ai #productivity #opensource #devtools

1 min read

Jun 20

I built an open-source MCP server that gives any AI assistant live NSE + BSE stock data

#mcp #ai #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Gaurav Prajapati

Jun 20

I built a visual .env manager for VS Code 🔐

#productivity #webdev #opensource #vscode

1 min read

Djowda for Djowda

Jun 19

We're One Script Away From 30% Cheaper Groceries, Stop Asking AI, Start Asking Why

#discuss #foodtech #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Foxaura AI

Jun 20

Smart Bookmarks Sidebar

#opensource #firefox #extensions

1 min read

Jun 20

I'm started to build the Endgame: an IDE, term and text-editor color theme engineered based on eye biomechanics, science-baked data and other factors

#productivity #opensource #development #devjournal

1 min read

Stephanie Dover

Jun 20

Why I scrub AI prose with regex, not a second LLM

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

9 min read

Phúc Nguyễn Hoàng

Jun 19

Pluck v1.0.2 — I built a floating clipboard manager for Windows (open source)

#opensource #software #csharp #productivity

1 min read

kent-tokyo

Jun 21

Building a Computer-Aided Synthesis Planning Engine in Pure Rust

#rust #cheminformatics #webassembly #opensource

4 min read

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