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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 6

I Built My Own Programming Language at 19 – Introducing Akro

#showdev #programming #opensource #go

2 min read

Apr 22

Our release tool crashed on a large PR. Here's the React diff library I ended up writing.

#webdev #opensource #react #performance

7 min read

May 5

The real problem with ingesting MongoDB into Delta Lake (and how I built a library to fix it)

#dataengineering #python #opensource #mongodb

5 min read

Vincent Grobler

Apr 22

We built shareable multi-agent workflow templates — here's how they work

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Apr 22

Building Beautiful Forms with Kotlin Multiplatform: Introducing Multiplat

#kotlin #productivity #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Apr 22

Evaluating Open-Weight LLMs for Phishing Simulation and Red Teaming

#ai #cybersecurity #llm #opensource

3 min read

manojradhakrishnan

Apr 22

Prism: A stateless payment integration library extracted from 4 years of production

#showdev #api #backend #opensource

11 min read

Apr 22

I Fine-Tuned a Compliance Judge and Beat the Stock Model by +29.6pp F1

#machinelearning #python #opensource #nlp

6 min read

Landlight

Apr 23

I Am Building a Cloud: Lessons From Designing My Own Infrastructure From Scratch

#cloud #devops #infrastructure #opensource

6 min read

autodrive-cyber

Apr 22

Your Agent Is Dead Between Tasks. I Fixed That.

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

3 min read

lu1tr0n

Apr 22

GitHub CLI activa telemetría por defecto: qué envía y cómo desactivarla

#opensource #linux #programming #devops

9 min read

Apr 22

I built a CLI tool that writes your git commit messages using Claude AI

#opensource #claude #git #javascript

1 min read

Apr 23

Mutorials: a free adaptive science trainer that makes practice actually stick

#webdev #productivity #programming #opensource

1 min read

Vilius

May 5

6 Protocols for Agent Infrastructure — Trust Score, Deployment, SLA, Identity, Compliance

#ai #agents #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Werner Kasselman

Apr 22

the next software stack needs more than code generation

#ai #opensource #architecture #startup

5 min read

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