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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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Art

May 11

ForgeOS Dojo - learn AI-assisted development, build something that matters

#discuss #opensource #career #showdev

1 min read

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Alan West

May 13

How to keep third-party integrations alive when vendor APIs lock down

#opensource #debugging #devops #api

5 min read

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Diego Garcia Brisa

May 12

Why I built ts-match: TypeScript branching in the era of coding agents

#ai #webdev #typescript #opensource

7 min read

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Grigorii Sharapov

May 11

State-as-Files: A Manifesto for Multi-Session Agent Work

#claude #productivity #opensource

9 min read

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Alan West

May 11

Why your open-source fork can get a cease-and-desist (and how to fix it)

#opensource #programming #tutorial #beginners

5 min read

tomohiro takada

May 11

Counterintuitive: WSL2 + vllm cannot fit Qwen2.5-7B-1M on 6GB VRAM where Windows transformers can

#showdev #llm #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Muhammad Ademola

May 11

From Zero to Scripts: My Bitcoin CLI Learning Journey (Btrust Builders Program)

#beginners #bitcoin #cli #opensource

5 min read

CodeKing

May 10

"I Thought Adding Google-Style OAuth to My Local AI Gateway Would Take One Evening"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

May 11

I launched a free software end-of-life tracker — here's why it matters more than most people realize

#showdev #devops #security #opensource

2 min read

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Xandhi OS

May 12

Why I Chose Free AI Models Over GPT-4 for Code Generation (And What Happened)

#ai #llm #opensource #devtools

5 min read

May 11

RightLayout: Shipping a Mac AI Tool, Then Letting Go

#machinelearning #macos #opensource #swift

5 min read

manja316

May 12

Give Claude (or Cursor) live Polymarket prediction-market data with one MCP server

#mcp #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

May 11

Four small CLIs to make your site visible to AI engines

#opensource #ai #geo #generativeengineoptimization

4 min read

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keesan.eth

May 11

AI coding agents need receipts, not just better prompts

#ai #opensource #devops #programming

1 min read

Cover image for One Open Source Project a Day (No. 63): AiToEarn - An All-in-One AI Platform for Turning Content into Revenue

WonderLab

May 12

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 63): AiToEarn - An All-in-One AI Platform for Turning Content into Revenue

#opensource #agents #opc #ai

8 min read

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