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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.

submission guidelines

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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Cover image for Prompt Compression Benchmarker: Cut LLM Input Costs by 35–63% With Measurable Quality Tracking

May 6

Prompt Compression Benchmarker: Cut LLM Input Costs by 35–63% With Measurable Quality Tracking

#promptengineering #machinelearning #python #opensource

10 min read

Ashu

Apr 12

Daemon that "Dreams" about your codebase so your AI agents stop hallucinating and save tokens

#ai #rust #agents #opensource

2 min read

a2n

Apr 12

Flashing the Lily58 R2G with QMK

#keyboard #programming #tutorial #opensource

2 min read

Morfasco

Apr 12

How I Built an OCR-Based Defense Against Prompt Injection for Local LLM Search

#security #ai #opensource #docker

3 min read

Cover image for I Got Tired of Flashing My Pico Manually, So I Built a GUI

Apr 12

I Got Tired of Flashing My Pico Manually, So I Built a GUI

#linux #cybersecurity #raspberrypi #opensource

3 min read

Apr 12

I spent $13,631 on Claude Code in 6 months. Here's exactly where it went.

#claudecode #devtools #opensource #ai

3 min read

Cover image for Contributing to a Browser Used by Millions - A personal experience

Apr 16

Contributing to a Browser Used by Millions - A personal experience

#devjournal #opensource #firefox #outreachy

4 min read

Cover image for I Built a Browser App Store That Fetches GitHub Releases

Ovi ren

May 5

I Built a Browser App Store That Fetches GitHub Releases

#opensource #github #react #typescript

1 min read

David

Apr 12

How to Run GLM 4.7 Flash Locally with Ollama — 30B Quality at 3B Speed

#ai #llm #ollama #opensource

3 min read

David Lastrucci

Apr 12

Entity mapping in depth: attributes, types, and nullable fields

#delphi #orm #database #opensource

3 min read

Apr 12

Linux Basics That Actually Matter (Files, Editing & Permissions)

#linux #devops #opensource #learning

2 min read

Cover image for AI Doesn’t Have a Knowledge Problem. It Has a Memory Problem.

Thaslima Nasreen

Apr 12

AI Doesn’t Have a Knowledge Problem. It Has a Memory Problem.

#ai #programming #beginners #opensource

4 min read

Nytrox

Apr 12

I built a TCP networking library in Python at 14 : and v1.6.2 just hit 110k msg/s with zero dependencies

#python #networking #opensource #beginners

3 min read

SupaCtx

Apr 12

How We Built a Free Voice Cloning Tool That Supports 646 Languages

#showdev #ai #nlp #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for Challenge 1: The Learning Curve Feels Endless (and Unclear)

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 16

Challenge 1: The Learning Curve Feels Endless (and Unclear)

#discuss #tutorial #beginners #opensource

3 min read

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