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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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Cover image for We Built the First Pure Go DXIL Generator — Because Optimizing the Wrong Path Wasn't Enough

Apr 5

We Built the First Pure Go DXIL Generator — Because Optimizing the Wrong Path Wasn't Enough

#go #gpu #graphics #opensource

10 min read

Maxim Gerasimov

Apr 5

Privacy-Preserving Gesture Control: Developing an Open-Source, Usable, and Compatible Web Map Library

#privacy #gesturecontrol #opensource #webmaps

12 min read

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nagasatish chilakamarti

Apr 5

TealTiger v1.1.1: Enterprise-Grade AI Agent Security — Zero Infrastructure Required

#ai #security #opensource #typescript

7 min read

Cover image for Building the Romanian NLP API that should already exist

Apr 18

Building the Romanian NLP API that should already exist

#nlp #romanian #api #opensource

3 min read

Pico

Apr 5

I Scored 12 Python AI Packages on Behavioral Commitment. The LiteLLM Attack Data Makes Sense Now.

#python #security #ai #opensource

3 min read

Mohammad Raziei

Apr 4

I Needed to Run Mermaid.js in Python. So I Built Two Libraries.

#showdev #python #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Apr 27

I built a resume compiler in Go — write YAML, get every format

#go #opensource #career #resume

3 min read

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Alexander Shishenko

May 8

MCP servers, sandboxed — introducing ACT

#showdev #ai #opensource #webassembly

5 min read

Cover image for Open Source Project of the Day (Part 30): banana-slides - Native AI PPT Generation App Based on nano banana pro

WonderLab

Apr 5

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 30): banana-slides - Native AI PPT Generation App Based on nano banana pro

#ai #opensource #gemini #ppt

7 min read

Cover image for AI-Powered Deduplication: How LLMs Supercharge the Golden Suite

benzsevern

Apr 4

AI-Powered Deduplication: How LLMs Supercharge the Golden Suite

#python #ai #datascience #opensource

8 min read

sonpiaz

Apr 4

hidrix-tools: 18 MCP tools that give AI agents web search, social media scraping, and content analysis

#ai #mcp #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 5

Keep Your AI Conversations Local: Open WebUI + Ollama Setup

#ai #opensource #privacy #linux

3 min read

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Jonas Birmé for Eyevinn Open Source Cloud Dev Blog

Apr 18

Building Apps That Act on Behalf of OSC Users (OAuth + PKCE in 50 Lines)

#oauth #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Cover image for We Built a Programming Language That Speaks 8 Human Languages

Apr 4

We Built a Programming Language That Speaks 8 Human Languages

#opensource #programming #beginners #deved

2 min read

CodeKing

May 8

"My Mobile Coding Agent Kept Starting New Sessions. I Taught It to Remember the Last Task"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

4 min read

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