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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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May 5

ZenWinHook: A Thread-Safe Windows Hooking Library in C++

#cpp #opensource #reverseengineering

1 min read

Ramanpreet Singh

May 5

I built a tiny CI tool to keep AI agent configs from drifting in my repo

#ai #python #opensource #devops

2 min read

May 10

Why most carbon calculators are using the wrong methane GWP value (and how to fix it)

#sustainability #javascript #opensource #carbon

2 min read

Davi Reis Vieira

May 5

I Built an Open-Source AWS Resource Browser Because I Was Tired of Running CLI Commands

#opensource #aws #python #webdev

5 min read

Cover image for Grom — Free, Open-Source AI Coding Assistant for VS Code (Ollama, LM Studio, Anthropic, and More)

Ryan

May 5

Grom — Free, Open-Source AI Coding Assistant for VS Code (Ollama, LM Studio, Anthropic, and More)

#showdev #ai #opensource #vscode

2 min read

Cover image for A 4-model adversarial review pipeline that costs $0.30 per audit

Mike

May 5

A 4-model adversarial review pipeline that costs $0.30 per audit

#opensource #ai #claude #codereview

3 min read

Cover image for I rebuilt my open-source AI coding agent that routes each pipeline stage to a different LLM

May 5

I rebuilt my open-source AI coding agent that routes each pipeline stage to a different LLM

#ai #opensource #productivity #llm

5 min read

Cover image for Blueprint: Declare Your Dev Environment Once, Apply It Anywhere

May 5

Blueprint: Declare Your Dev Environment Once, Apply It Anywhere

#devtools #productivity #tooling #opensource

4 min read

Muhammad Yazed Jamaludin

May 5

Building Retro UIs with React: A Pixel Art Component Library Tutorial

#react #webdev #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Mainuddin

May 5

Beyond the Code: Mentoring the Next Generation of Engineers at Six Flags

#leadership #mentorship #opensource #steminism

2 min read

George Mihailov

May 10

9router: route Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot through whichever free tier you've got

#showdev #ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Cover image for A local-first project knowledge graph for AI coding agents

HeytalePazguato

May 5

A local-first project knowledge graph for AI coding agents

#ai #vscode #productivity #opensource

7 min read

Cover image for Why comparing average scores is the wrong way to evaluate LLM prompts (and what to do instead)

Aayush kumarsingh

May 8

Why comparing average scores is the wrong way to evaluate LLM prompts (and what to do instead)

#python #llm #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

May 5

I got tired of explaining my codebase to AI every conversation. So I gave it a memory.

#ai #opensource #typescript #productivity

5 min read

daniel.sakdinun

May 5

Introducing 4PACE: I built an open-source, YAML-driven power grid simulator in Python ⚡

#showdev #python #opensource #engineering

2 min read

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