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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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Apr 18

Why I built a lossless alternative to AI memory summarization

#claudecode #ai #python #opensource

4 min read

Yaniv

Apr 17

Why I Built an AI-Powered Test Data Generator (and When You Shouldn't Use AI for Fixtures)

#testing #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

Andreas Eckhoff

Apr 17

context.txt — llms.txt tells AI where to look, this tells it what it's looking at

#discuss #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

kiwi_tech

Apr 17

Kiwi-chan Progress Report: Steady Mining!

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

3 min read

Overcoming environment setup for a first PR

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Apr 13

The Open Sourcerer of Forem: Beyond the UI

#discuss #community #forem #opensource

4 min read

k38f

Apr 16

How I built a progress bar library in 300 lines of Python

#python #tutorial #cli #opensource

6 min read

Jean-David Bonicel

Apr 17

I built a CLI that scaffolds complete multi-tenant SaaS apps

#opensource #react #java #webdev

3 min read

Apr 16

Stop Rebuilding Your Claude Code Setup - Scaffold It Once with Worclaude

#claudecode #claude #ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 18

Brain, Explained

#ai #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Alan West

Apr 17

How to Run a 35B Parameter Model on Your Laptop Without Melting It

#ai #llm #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Aniketh

Apr 17

Prompt guardrails protect the developer. Who protects the end user?

#ai #agents #programming #opensource

6 min read

Apr 18

Why I Stopped Logging In to Read Tweets

#discuss #privacy #opensource #webdev

3 min read

devtoship

Apr 17

How to Find Verified x402 APIs for AI Agents (Without Managing a Single API Key)

#ai #opensource #api #x402

5 min read

Pavanipriya Sajja

Apr 17

Challenge : 2 The Project Selection Trap

#discuss #tutorial #beginners #opensource

7 min read

DacForge

Apr 17

Per-page OG images on an Astro site, without the SaaS

#astro #webdev #typescript #opensource

7 min read

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