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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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Jaime

May 6

Building a Local JARVIS (v1.1) 🤖: Adding PC Automation and a "Living Profile"

#ai #python #opensource #github

1 min read

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YHH

May 6

The boring secret to a cheap AI coding agent — a byte-stable prompt prefix

#showdev #ai #opensource #typescript

5 min read

Ismoy Belizaire

May 6

New ImagePickerKMP API: The easiest way to handle Camera and Gallery in Kotlin Multiplatform

#ai #opensource #kotlin #mobile

2 min read

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May 6

Introducing Cossmology: a Map of the Commercial OSS Universe

#opensource #commercialopensource #startup

1 min read

Enmanuel Magallanes Pinargote

May 6

I got tired of AI agents roaming my codebase — so I built a harness layer

#ai #opensource #tooling #agents

2 min read

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May 6

I freed 80GB on my Mac with a bash script — no app, no subscription

#macos #bash #opensource #productivity

3 min read

May 6

Building a Privacy-First URL Shortener on Blockchain

#privacy #blockchain #webdev #opensource

1 min read

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gezilinll

May 6

Agent-Ready Engineering Infrastructure

#ai #coding #opensource #softwareengineering

20 min read

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May 6

SnackTax – A single-file, offline calorie, marcos and water tracker

#nutrition #fitness #opensource #midnightchallenge

1 min read

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Sreethul

May 10

Building a Scalable Sidebar Architecture in Django Using Decorators, Registries, and Context Processors

#python #django #opensource #contributorswanted

3 min read

Frank Boucher ☁ for Reka

May 5

Apps That See: Bringing Vision AI to Your Projects

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

7 min read

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offbyonce

May 10

Walking Back Our v1.0 Announcement: Resetting to v0.9.0a1 as the First Build

#opensource #ai #agents #security

7 min read

Yuka Kust

May 5

I shipped a free AI-art site with a flawed LoRA and ran a 75-image ablation to prove it

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #python

7 min read

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Vinod Singh Rajpurohit

May 6

TTS Models for Indian Languages: The Tech Giving Bharat a Voice

#ai #tts #digitaltransformation #opensource

4 min read

Xu Bian

May 6

SketchUp Agent Harness

#ai #design #sketchup #opensource

4 min read

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