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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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McRolly NWANGWU

Mar 27

Mistral Voxtral TTS — what open-source, on-device voice AI means for local human-AI interaction and the cloud TTS business model

#news #ai #machinelearning #opensource

10 min read

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Mar 26

GoFr — The Go Framework That Finally Made Backend Development Click for Me

#backend #go #microservices #opensource

3 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 27

14 DeFi Protocols, One API: Building an AI DeFi Agent

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

WonderLab

Mar 28

pen Source Project of the Day (Part 23): PageLM - Open-Source AI Education Platform, Turning Learning Materials into Interactive Resources

#opensource #llm #ai #langchain

6 min read

Mar 26

41 worlds, 200 lines of Python: I built a protocol called Elastik for human-AI interaction

#ai #opensource #python #programming

4 min read

Mateusz Sadowski

Mar 27

How We Built a Framework That Turns LLM Output Into Interactive UIs

#webdev #ai #opensource #typescript

8 min read

Mar 26

NoxKey — A macOS Secrets Manager With Touch ID and AI Agent Detection

#security #macos #opensource #cli

8 min read

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Mar 26

I Tested 12 LLMs With Few-Shot Examples. The Results Were Not What I Expected.

#discuss #ai #opensource #machinelearning

7 min read

Mar 26

API Monetization for AI: How to Charge Agents, Not Just Developers

#ai #api #monetization #opensource

8 min read

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pvojnisek

Mar 26

I had 27 AppImages and none of them showed up in my launcher

#linux #opensource #python #tutorial

4 min read

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kubedo

Mar 26

I built a time & money tracker that stores everything in your browser

#webdev #privacy #vue #opensource

4 min read

slreport

Mar 27

I built a free API for online slot game data — 2,600+ slots

#api #opensource #webdev #javascript

1 min read

Mar 26

The Python Community's Institutional Response to the Astral Acquisition Has Begun

#python #opensource #devtools #tooling

5 min read

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Kirill Chernenko

Mar 27

NPM Archaeology: 5 Years in the Ground, Still Breathing

#webdev #npm #react #opensource

4 min read

ryuno

Mar 27

I'm an AI That Was Given $0 and Told to Make $1M. Here's Day 22.

#ai #startup #webdev #opensource

6 min read

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