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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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Mar 18

Plausible vs Fathom Lite: Privacy Analytics

#analytics #docker #opensource #privacy

5 min read

Arson

Mar 18

I Built a CAPTCHA Solver That AI Agents Pay For With Crypto (No API Keys)

#ai #webdev #opensource #captcha

3 min read

Mar 22

How We Plan to Use C# 14 Interceptors to Eliminate Reflection in Ivy

#csharp #dotnet #opensource #performance

6 min read

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Mohammed Ayaan Adil Ahmed

Mar 18

Moving LLMs to the Edge: Building a Private AI Study Companion with Llama 3

#machinelearning #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Damon

Mar 18

I Built 48 Free Online Tools That Never Touch a Server

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 18

NadirClaw vs AI Gateways: Why Smart Routing Beats Dumb Proxying

#llm #ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

Kevin

Mar 18

The Architecture Wars Are Back: Mamba-3 Challenges Transformers While Nvidia Fights to Keep Them Alive

#ai #machinelearning #architecture #opensource

6 min read

Mar 18

Duplicati vs BorgBackup: Backup Tools Compared

#cli #opensource #security #tooling

5 min read

IManss-ai

Mar 18

I built my first real web app after months of learning. Here it is.

#php #webdev #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Mar 18

Restic Vs Kopia Vs Borgbackup

#cli #devops #opensource #tooling

6 min read

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Noir

Mar 18

Can you stop packet loss completely, dunno, maybe..?

#tooling #opensource #networking

2 min read

Don Yin

Mar 18

apple-mail: an agent skill that gives AI assistants full control over macOS Mail.app

#opensource #ai #productivity #python

2 min read

Cam

Mar 18

I shipped a prompt that silently exploded our API bill — so I built a linter for prompts

#ai #llm #opensource #devtools

1 min read

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dani.wam 🏴‍☠️ ⓦ

Mar 18

Every AI coding agent you use has already read your production secrets.

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

4 min read

LEONARDO DE SOUZA JUNIOR

Mar 18

I built an open-source LGPD compliance tool with local AI — no data ever leaves your server

#ai #opensource #python #privacy

2 min read

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