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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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KevinTen

Apr 20

How I Built My AI Agent Learning Guide from Scratch: The Hard Truths

#ai #opensource

7 min read

정상록

Apr 21

OmniVoice: Open-Source TTS with 600+ Languages and Zero-Shot Voice Cloning

#ai #machinelearning #nlp #opensource

4 min read

XINMurat

Apr 19

I Built an AI Agent That Analyzes Your Entire Codebase in One Command

#ai #python #opensource #devtools

5 min read

Apr 19

I spent weeks searching for good free tools. Then I stopped searching and built the place instead.

#opensource #sideprojects #developertools #freetools

2 min read

Claudio Tancredi

Apr 19

I built a gamified hub for open-source contributions, here's why

#opensource #github #beginners #gamification

3 min read

Kir

Apr 19

Building ambient desktop particles for macOS with CAEmitterLayer

#showdev #opensource #performance #swift

4 min read

yingyi.ma

Apr 20

I built a natural language cron expression generator – looking for feedback

#devops #kubernetes #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 20

AstCodeSplitter in claude-context codebase.

#opensource #ast #treesitter #claude

3 min read

Apr 19

Bayan Flow 0.4.0: From Algorithm Visualization to Real Understanding

#algorithms #opensource #webdev #learning

3 min read

Harshal

Apr 19

An open-source Chrome extension to track job applications

#showdev #career #javascript #opensource

1 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers: The Brutal Truth About Building a Real "Second Brain" After 8 Years

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers: From Knowledge Base to AI Overlord - How I Accidentally Created a Digital Dictator

#ai #opensource

7 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Papers 2.0: When My Knowledge Base Started Learning Back at Me

#ai #opensource #knowledge #productivity

8 min read

Apr 19

I Stopped Running API Workflows. I Taught My Agent to Own Them

#claude #ai #opensource #agents

5 min read

Apr 19

WebBrain — Free Open-Source AI Browser Agent (Self-Hostable Alternative to Claude in Chrome, Sider, Monica)

#opensource #ai #selfhosted #productivity

1 min read

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