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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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Kacper Włodarczyk

Apr 15

curl | bash for AI Agents: One-Command Install for pydantic-deep

#python #opensource #devex #cli

2 min read

Cover image for One Open Source Project a Day (No.39): OpenCLI - Turning Any Website Into a Zero-Cost CLI Tool for AI Agents

WonderLab

Apr 15

One Open Source Project a Day (No.39): OpenCLI - Turning Any Website Into a Zero-Cost CLI Tool for AI Agents

#ai #opensource #cli #typescript

9 min read

AnubhavBharadwaaj

Apr 15

I tested a 4B model vs a 70B model on research papers. The 4B model won

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Abisade Ogunwoolu

Apr 19

I built the Ansible tool I wish I had: A visual debugger and "Limits" sandbox

#ansible #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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VH Costa

Apr 28

Don't Open a Pull Request Yet

#discuss #opensource #beginners #programming

8 min read

Sui Gn

Apr 15

1.3 MILLION OPERATIONS

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Stop Wasting Hours on "Project Setup": How I Automated Production-Ready Go APIs

Apr 15

Stop Wasting Hours on "Project Setup": How I Automated Production-Ready Go APIs

#showdev #go #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Tuning ML hyperparameters with a swarm optimizer inspired by parrot behavior

Vijay Govindaraja

Apr 12

Tuning ML hyperparameters with a swarm optimizer inspired by parrot behavior

#python #parrot #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Cover image for Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Bonus: The Stack Underneath

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Bonus: The Stack Underneath

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

7 min read

Cover image for Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 4: Blueprint

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 4: Blueprint

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

12 min read

Conker

Apr 16

How to Write a Good GitHub README (With Examples)

#github #webdev #documentation #opensource

2 min read

Vainamoinen | Pulsed Media

Apr 15

Väinämöinen vs MemPalace vs claude-mem: A Source-Code-Level Comparison of AI Agent Memory Systems

#ai #agents #memory #opensource

11 min read

Pomeloid

Apr 15

After 100 hours: what open-source humanoid hardware lets tinkerers actually experiment with

#robotics #opensource #humanoid

4 min read

Cover image for AI-SLOP Detector v3.5.0 — Every Claim, Verified Against Source Code

Apr 15

AI-SLOP Detector v3.5.0 — Every Claim, Verified Against Source Code

#aitools #opensource #codequality #python

4 min read

Cover image for The Architects and the Tenants: Your Place in the AI-Driven Future of Code

Dani Sam

Apr 19

The Architects and the Tenants: Your Place in the AI-Driven Future of Code

#programming #career #beginners #opensource

2 min read

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