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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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HIMANSHU LOHANI

Apr 16

Why I Built a SQLite Brain for AI Coding (and How It Saves 70-90% Tokens)

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

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WonderLab

Apr 16

One Open Source Project a Day (No.40): Hermes Agent - Nous Research's Self-Improving AI Agent

#ai #hermesagent #agents #opensource

7 min read

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Apr 16

CodeZero is 30x times faster than n8n

#nocode #backend #tooling #opensource

3 min read

Apr 16

The Technical Side of Self-Hosted Bookmark Managers (Without the Headache)

#opensource #privacy #tooling

4 min read

Apr 16

I was tired of complex RAG evaluation tools, so I built my own (and open-sourced it) 🚀

#opensource #ai #python #machinelearning

2 min read

Artem KK

Apr 16

Why Book Translation Needs a Second Pass

#llm #ai #opensource #devtools

1 min read

Metra

Apr 16

The Most Wildfire-Prone Zip Codes in America — What USFS Data Shows

#data #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

Apr 16

Drop-in AI Chat for Any Website — No Framework Required

#ai #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Pico

Apr 16

I audited 25 top npm packages with a zero-install CLI. Here's who passes.

#npm #javascript #security #opensource

3 min read

Pawan Singh Kapkoti

Apr 15

OpsMind: On-Prem AI for Manufacturing — No Cloud, No API Keys, No Budget

#python #ai #opensource #manufacuring

3 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 16

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Apr 16

AI Agents Are Failing Because of This?

#ai #llm #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Cover image for Architectural drift with Agentic coding. Here's what I built to fix it.

Soumyadeep Mahapatra

Apr 15

Architectural drift with Agentic coding. Here's what I built to fix it.

#claude #opensource #architecture #devtools

4 min read

Cover image for Four Security Bugs That Shipped in AI-Generated Code (and How They Got Caught)

Apr 15

Four Security Bugs That Shipped in AI-Generated Code (and How They Got Caught)

#ai #security #python #opensource

4 min read

Apr 15

How to Set Up a Free Coding Agent on Your Machine in 10 Minutes

#ai #opencode #ollama #opensource

5 min read

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