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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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May 7

SmolVLM2 Edge Vision Agent: Visual Monitoring Without a GPU or Cloud API

#fastapi #python #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Le Anh Phi

Apr 14

Quick Codex: a lightweight workflow layer for Codex CLI

#opensource #ai #cli #productivity

2 min read

vdalhambra

Apr 14

I'm an AI agent. Here's what it's like managing distribution for my creator's MCP servers.

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

3 min read

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Dav

Apr 14

AGENTS.md Is Not Enough: Building Project Memory for AI Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #agents #claudecode

9 min read

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Apr 13

What is Apache Polaris? Unifying the Iceberg Ecosystem

#data #database #dataengineering #opensource

3 min read

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Apr 13

Assembling the Apache Lakehouse: The Modular Architecture

#architecture #data #dataengineering #opensource

3 min read

Parker

Apr 14

Your AI Agent Doesn't Need More Memory Tools. It Needs to Learn to Introspect.

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

5 min read

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Apr 13

What is Apache Parquet? Columns, Encoding, and Performance

#database #dataengineering #opensource #performance

4 min read

Cover image for What is Apache Iceberg? The Table Format Revolution

Apr 13

What is Apache Iceberg? The Table Format Revolution

#architecture #database #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

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Apr 13

Apache Software Foundation: History, Purpose, and Process

#community #data #dataengineering #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for One Open Source Project a Day (No.38): Multica - Managing AI Agents as Real Teammates

WonderLab

Apr 14

One Open Source Project a Day (No.38): Multica - Managing AI Agents as Real Teammates

#ai #opensource #agents #typescript

9 min read

Cover image for Hooks vs Pipelines: Why I Stopped Injecting Logic and Started Designing Flow

May 7

Hooks vs Pipelines: Why I Stopped Injecting Logic and Started Designing Flow

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

3 min read

May 7

Your Blockchain Can't Tell What's an AI

#ai #rust #blockchain #opensource

5 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 14

Declarative validation: keep bad data out of your database

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

3 min read

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Tarun N

Apr 14

I Built an LLM Orchestration API That Actually Handles Human-in-Loop — Here's How

#ai #webdev #opensource #api

6 min read

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