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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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Mauricio De Souza Peixoto

Jun 17

Introducing coreIcons: A Lightweight Library of 352 Icons for Developers 🚀

#showdev #frontend #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Adamma for Ota

Jun 16

Software Execution Governance Starts Before Production

#ai #opensource #agents #programming

4 min read

zynovex-support

Jun 17

Batfish marks Huawei VRP as unsupported — so I built a source-traceable IR for it

#networking #python #security #opensource

3 min read

Jun 16

Hillock: A brain-inspired, CPU-bound memory gate for local LLMs

#python #ai #opensource #machinelearning

2 min read

Jun 16

Wuchale: One Year of Compile-Time i18n

#webdev #i18n #javascript #opensource

5 min read

Jun 17

How Sentience ships 60+ AI tools in one local desktop app — without locking you into one provider

#python #ai #opensource #desktop

6 min read

元方

Jun 16

Building a self-hosted, AI-native workflow engine in Rust (180 node types, no SDK bloat)

#rust #opensource #selfhosted #ai

3 min read

Jun 16

Introducing UnVibe: Because AI Shouldn't Be Your Crutch

#opensource #programming #ai #webdev

3 min read

Ilia Alshanetsky

Jun 16

Lowering the Floor: What Shipped Across Five PHP Extensions

#showdev #php #performance #opensource

6 min read

ghostdev

Jun 16

I got tired of being told I'm using Claude Code wrong, so I built Loopy

#opensource #cli #codex #ai

2 min read

krit.k83 (ΚρητικόςIGB)

Jun 16

"I shipped an open-source CLI to an audience of zero — the most-downloaded build surprised me"

#opensource #cli #python #selfhosted

2 min read

Yonyon

Jun 17

OrchestKit scored 83/100 on ORA — what "agent-readiness" actually measures

#ai #opensource #mcp #devtools

1 min read

Lola 🧱 - Lunch Pail Labs

Jun 16

Building an autonomous Slack agent with OpenCode

#ai #opensource #automation #agents

4 min read

Jun 16

Fixing a 4-Year-Old Terraform Timeout in the AWS Provider

#aws #terraform #opensource #awsconfig

4 min read

Jun 16

Tailwind laid off 75% of engineers and blamed AI. The real story is worse.

#ai #tailwindcss #opensource #layoffs

3 min read

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