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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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Apr 12

I Found a Stateless LLM Runtime on GitHub — It Dynamically Loads Models Per Request

#ai #opensource #rust #python

1 min read

Cover image for "Behold Dennis The Forge" (or how the chickens helped give DEX a home)

Apr 12

"Behold Dennis The Forge" (or how the chickens helped give DEX a home)

#opensource #saas #programming #software

4 min read

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Phi Thành

Apr 12

I built an open-source trading RSS directory (inspired by public API lists)

#showdev #opensource #resources #sideprojects

2 min read

capman

Apr 12

Capman: Stop Routing Every Intent Through an LLM

#ai #web3 #typescript #opensource

5 min read

Cover image for Your Multi-Agent System Probably Uses 1 Pattern. Here Are 12.

varun pratap Bhardwaj

Apr 12

Your Multi-Agent System Probably Uses 1 Pattern. Here Are 12.

#ai #agentaichallenge #design #opensource

7 min read

Apr 11

I scanned the most famous AI coding repos on GitHub. Here's what I found

#ai #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Kiên Bùi

Apr 16

Building magic-code: An Open-Source AI Coding Agent That Runs on Your Hardware

#opensource #rust #ai #selfhosted

5 min read

Apr 12

Hardening an Express API: URL Validation, Error Handling, and Tests in One Session

#node #security #express #opensource

2 min read

Apr 13

Using Next.js with Redis

#webdev #programming #opensource #javascript

1 min read

Cover image for I just hardened my OSS release pipeline to 11 layers of security — here's the playbook

אחיה כהן

Apr 11

I just hardened my OSS release pipeline to 11 layers of security — here's the playbook

#opensource #security #github #npm

7 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 16

On-Device AI Agents vs Cloud AI Agents: Which Path Are You Betting On?

#discuss #ai #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

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Apr 12

We built a single score that tells you if a company is worth investing in

#webdev #nextjs #opensource #ai

3 min read

Pico

Apr 12

Measuring Agent Trust — Beyond Vibes

#ai #security #agents #opensource

4 min read

Apr 11

I shipped 100+ free tools on a $5 VPS in 5 days

#webdev #buildinpublic #opensource #javascript

2 min read

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Apr 12

Announcing markdown-parser-react v3.0.0: A Complete Architectural Overhaul

#javascript #webdev #opensource #npm

3 min read

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