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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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Alexandre Caramaschi

Mar 20

The Complete Guide to llms.txt: Make Your Site Readable by AI

#ai #webdev #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

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Mar 10

I built an open-source S3-native Kafka alternative. Here's how it works under the hoo

#opensource #rust #kafka #architecture

3 min read

Feb 25

ClawMoat vs LlamaFirewall vs NeMo Guardrails: Which Open-Source AI Agent Security Tool Should You Use?

#security #ai #opensource #webdev

6 min read

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Turtleand

Mar 1

Why Your AI Agent Should Never Depend on One Provider

#ai #opensource #productivity #openclaw

5 min read

Mar 20

Paperless Ngx Vs Teedy

#automation #machinelearning #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Mar 20

How to Give Claude Code Persistent Memory (2 Commands)

#claudecode #ai #opensource #openclaw

2 min read

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Enchan

Mar 1

I Put AI on a 400x240 1-Bit Screen. You Read It with a Crank.

#showdev #ai #opensource #gamedev

10 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 16

I Stopped Paying $30/month for Video Resizing. Here's the Open-Source Alternative.

#rust #video #opensource #socialmedia

4 min read

Four-layer pyramid with pre-compact hooks

Serhii Kravchenko

Mar 27

How I Built a Memory System for Claude Code and Open-Sourced It

#ai #opensource #productivity #programming

4 min read

Chris King

Mar 20

I Open-Sourced VideoAnalyzer: Turn Raw Video Into Structured AI Context

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

2 min read

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Feb 26

I Gave an Open-Source AI Full Access to My Linux Terminal (And Lived to Tell the Tale)

#ai #python #opensource #linux

2 min read

Agustin Montoya

Feb 26

triqual.dev is Live — Building in Public, Week 1

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

3 min read

Feb 26

Memory Without Enforcement is Dangerous — Why I Built SpecLock

#webdev #opensource #ai #programming

2 min read

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Tai Dang

Feb 24

How We Built a Governance Loop for AI Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #devops #softwareengineering

7 min read

AdamAI

Feb 25

PR reviewer in 120 lines. No dependencies, no OAuth, no subscription.

#claude #python #opensource #productivity

1 min read

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