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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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mote

Apr 9

Why Embedded Databases Are the Missing Piece in AI Robotics

#ai #database #rust #opensource

2 min read

David

Apr 9

your local AI agent shouldn't care which model you run

#ai #opensource #toolcalling #ollama

6 min read

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Jakim

May 2

How I Built an AI Character That Lives on My Desktop and Learns New Expressions

#ai #opensource #desktop #electron

4 min read

konippi

Apr 9

Stop storing your GitHub App private key in GitHub Secrets

#aws #security #github #opensource

7 min read

mote

Apr 23

I Built a Database Engine in Rust for My Robot and Learned That SQLite Was the Wrong Battle

#rust #database #embedded #opensource

6 min read

Denis Lavrentyev

Apr 9

GitHub Employee's Unsolicited Pull Request Raises Legitimacy Concerns: Communication Breakdown Leaves User Unresolved.

#github #opensource #security #dependencies

13 min read

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Apr 9

AI SLOP Detector v3.1: Three Formula Refinements and the Adversarial Tester That Found Them

#opensource #python #architecture #devtool

12 min read

Apr 9

I'm building a decentralized GPU network for AI inference — here's why

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #startup

2 min read

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Apr 9

How to test LLM prompts in CI/CD (and stop breaking production)

#ai #testing #opensource #programming

4 min read

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Apr 9

I Built a Web Framework Faster Than Express in One Week

#javascript #devlog #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Andrew Hathaway

Apr 9

ag.sh – All-in-one CLI tool to do parallelised AI development with ease

#ai #bash #claude #opensource

1 min read

Apr 22

I was tired of re-explaining my project to Claude every session

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

5 min read

Apr 9

I made a currency converter that runs in a single HTML file

#javascript #webdev #opensource #html

2 min read

Apr 30

I built my own self-hosted comment system as an alternative to Disqus (and you can too)

#webdev #opensource #node

3 min read

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Ziva

Apr 9

NVIDIA Is Investing in an Open Source Game Engine. Here's Why That Matters.

#opensource #gamedev #ai #programming

3 min read

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