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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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May 12

We Built a Desktop AI Coworker So You Don't Need a Claude Subscription

#opensource #ai #productivity #desktop

3 min read

Michel

May 11

Multi-tenant files em Postgres + S3 com RLS FORCE: como o GarraIA fechou 9 slices REST sem deixar brecha de tenant isolation

#rust #postgres #security #opensource

5 min read

Made Büro

May 11

OpenModels: Explore LLM Models and Inference Providers

#ai #opensource #openai #llm

5 min read

May 11

GarlicStamp: an open identity protocol for AI agents

#showdev #ai #agents #opensource

7 min read

May 11

How to Cycle AI Agents for Free using CSC

#productivity #opensource #programming #ollama

3 min read

May 11

An open-source Virtual WebCam (alternative to DroidCam/Irium )

#discuss #programming #opensource #cpp

1 min read

David Vellé Abel

May 11

Local Agentic Development with Ollama and OpenCode

#ai #productivity #agents #opensource

3 min read

Mu Micro

May 11

npm outdated won't tell you if a package is abandoned — so I built `stale-deps`

#node #cli #devtools #opensource

1 min read

sunior

May 11

Spent the last few months building a walking tracker app for Android

#showdev #android #architecture #opensource

2 min read

drtobbyas

May 11

EP3: Native Kubernetes deployment is officially working in Coolify. But getting there meant wrestling with vicious race conditions.

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #coolify

4 min read

Fayaz Bin Salam

May 11

Ollama Models Explorer — a clean Next.js UI to browse and filter local LLMs

#ollama #ai #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

May 11

Google Places API Now Costs $275/Month — Here's a Free Alternative

#api #webdev #opensource #javascript

2 min read

May 11

DeepSeek V4 + Claude Code: Building a "Surgical" Development Workflow with China's Strongest Open-Source Model

#ai #deepseek #opensource #productivity

3 min read

May 11

I Built a Windows Study App with Mind Maps, PDF Viewer & Phone-to-PC Wi-Fi Sharing — StudyMind Pro

#showdev #productivity #beginners #opensource

2 min read

neve7r

May 11

The supply chain evidence package your SOC 2 auditor actually wants.

#security #devops #opensource #cybersecurity

5 min read

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