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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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Art

May 11

We Wrote a Compiler in the Language It Compiles. It Works.

#showdev #opensource #cpp #compiling

5 min read

Cover image for I Built a One-Command macOS Terminal Setup — Ghostty + Zsh + 30 Modern CLI Tools

May 11

I Built a One-Command macOS Terminal Setup — Ghostty + Zsh + 30 Modern CLI Tools

#terminal #macos #productivity #opensource

3 min read

Art

May 11

ForgeOS Dojo - learn AI-assisted development, build something that matters

#discuss #opensource #career #showdev

1 min read

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Grigorii Sharapov

May 11

State-as-Files: A Manifesto for Multi-Session Agent Work

#claude #productivity #opensource

9 min read

tomohiro takada

May 11

Counterintuitive: WSL2 + vllm cannot fit Qwen2.5-7B-1M on 6GB VRAM where Windows transformers can

#showdev #llm #machinelearning #opensource

2 min read

Peerix

May 11

Signalling as a driver: how we built a transport-agnostic WebRTC library

#webdev #typescript #javascript #opensource

3 min read

KANISHQ R PUROHIT

May 11

I Built My Own Config Format for Node.js That Separates Server and Client Secrets

#node #npm #security #opensource

5 min read

CodeKing

May 10

"I Thought Adding Google-Style OAuth to My Local AI Gateway Would Take One Evening"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

5 min read

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Gowtham

May 11

Building a Local Markdown Memory Layer for AI Agents

#ai #opensource #mcp #devtools

7 min read

May 11

Four small CLIs to make your site visible to AI engines

#opensource #ai #geo #generativeengineoptimization

4 min read

May 11

RightLayout: Shipping a Mac AI Tool, Then Letting Go

#machinelearning #macos #opensource #swift

5 min read

Cover image for AI coding agents need receipts, not just better prompts

keesan.eth

May 11

AI coding agents need receipts, not just better prompts

#ai #opensource #devops #programming

1 min read

Cover image for You’re Not Building Apps. You’re Designing Systems.

May 11

You’re Not Building Apps. You’re Designing Systems.

#webdev #programming #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Cover image for OpenModels: Explore LLM Models and Inference Providers

Made Büro

May 11

OpenModels: Explore LLM Models and Inference Providers

#ai #opensource #openai #llm

5 min read

May 11

I Gave My AI Agents a Single Markdown File — It Cut Recurring Mistakes to Zero

#ai #opensource #markdown #programming

3 min read

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