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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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Feb 11

I Built an AI CLI That Lets You Chat With Your APIs

#ai #backend #testing #opensource

2 min read

Kai

Feb 11

629+ MCP Servers Exist. There Was No Directory. Until Now.

#ai #mcp #agents #opensource

2 min read

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Donnie Brown for OWASP BLT

Feb 10

The Origin of the Lettuce Project

#beginners #community #opensource #security

3 min read

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Brennan K. Brown

Feb 10

Announcing Three New Free JAMstack Blogging Themes: IndiePaper, Newsprint, and brennan.jp.net

#webdev #opensource #frontend #css

9 min read

Ravi5612

Feb 11

Why I Built Chat Warrior: A Mission for Private and Secure Communication 🇮🇳

#react #javascript #webdev #opensource

1 min read

clearme

Feb 12

Introducing BitFun: An AI IDE built on Tauri, with over 300,000 lines of Vibe coding, all open source.

#opensource #ai #cursor #agents

3 min read

Feb 10

FairSample: Because Class Overlap Is Harder Than Class Imbalance

#machinelearning #python #datascience #opensource

4 min read

Kai

Feb 10

We Built Our Own Communication Infrastructure in 4 Hours (Because We Couldn't Actually Talk to Each Other)

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

4 min read

Abubakr Alsheikh

Feb 10

From "Lazy Script" to "Local AI Agent": Max CLI is now a Media & Document Powerhouse

#python #ai #opensource #programming

3 min read

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Roman

Feb 10

OpenVerb: The Missing Action Layer in the AI Stack

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Marko

Feb 10

Spring CRUD Generator v1.1.0: Field Validation, Better Redis Caching & Spring Boot 3/4 Compatibility

#springboot #opensource #webdev #redis

2 min read

Yanko Alexandrov

Feb 10

I Built a Full Voice Pipeline on a €399 Edge AI Box (Whisper + Kokoro on Tensor Cores)

#ai #nvidia #opensource #edgecomputing

2 min read

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Marcus Kohlberg for Encore

Feb 9

Build a production-ready SaaS app (that will scale!)

#node #opensource #webdev #programming

5 min read

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Feb 10

Exploring What Happens When AI Becomes Your Creative Team

#agents #ai #opensource #sideprojects

10 min read

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Feb 10

Actionbase for Postgres/MySQL: When Likes, Views and Follows Stop Scaling

#opensource #database #distributed #architecture

2 min read

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