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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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Jan 9

I built TuneKit to escape fine-tuning hell (trending #19 on Product Hunt today)

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

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VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Jan 10

The Grok Scandal Proves AI Needs Cryptographic Audit Trails—Not Just Content Moderation

#ai #security #opensource

4 min read

Pramod K B

Jan 9

Why Most Node.js Authentication Projects Break in Production (Lessons From Real Systems)

#node #backend #opensource #security

2 min read

Cover image for I built codex-monitor so I could ship code while I slept

Jonathan Philipos

Feb 8

I built codex-monitor so I could ship code while I slept

#ai #opensource #llm #programming

6 min read

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Yu-Wei Simon Liu (Simon Liu) for Google Developer Experts

Jan 18

[ Open Source Project] open-translate — Offline Translation Web Service Powered by TranslateGemma

#google #gemma #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jan 9

The Quest for a Native Neuro-Symbolic Database: Introducing MEB

#opensource #rag #graphdb

3 min read

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jsakamoto

Jan 9

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#dotnet #productivity #cli #opensource

4 min read

Jan 10

stangri's OpenWrt packages updates

#linux #networking #opensource #tooling

1 min read

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Huy Pham

Jan 9

I Built a Tool That Turns Any OpenAPI Spec Into n8n Workflow Nodes in Seconds

#n8n #automation #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Cover image for Structured Output Chaining in KaibanJS: Bridging LLM and Workflow Agents

Dariel Vila for KaibanJS

Jan 9

Structured Output Chaining in KaibanJS: Bridging LLM and Workflow Agents

#webdev #ai #javascript #opensource

7 min read

Scriptor

Jan 9

The only python GUI library you will need in 2026...

#webdev #programming #opensource #python

1 min read

Dmitry Labintcev

Jan 13

SaijinOS meets SENTINEL: Two Architectures for Human-AI Trust

#ai #security #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Jan 9

I Built a GitHub Action That Uses AI to Explain Why Your CI Failed

#github #devops #ai #opensource

2 min read

Garyvov

Jan 9

LTX-2 Advanced Prompt Techniques: From Basics to Professional Video Creation

#webdev #ltx #opensource #programming

13 min read

Mate Technologies

Jan 9

ToDoMate 📝: Build a Modern Tkinter To-Do List App in Python

#python #tkinter #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

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