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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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KevinTen

Apr 20

The Brutal Truth About Learning AI Agents: What I Learned from Building 17 Broken Versions

#ai #opensource

6 min read

Apr 21

How to Safely Run AI-Generated Code with SmolVM (Open-Source MicroVM Sandbox)

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

8 min read

Anuj Karn

Apr 20

Satya AI v0.3.0: Open-Source Agent Governance with ROI Dashboard & SQLite Audit Store

#opensource #ai #python #productivity

2 min read

Matías Battocchia

Apr 21

5 Supabase patterns I learned building an open-source WhatsApp platform

#supabase #whatsapp #opensource #postgres

7 min read

Apr 19

I Analysed 200 PRs in Shadcn-UI/UI To Find Duplicates: It Went Surprisingly Well.

#showdev #ai #opensource #automation

6 min read

SatanDev

Apr 24

Project-Lwanga:De 5 MB a 8 KB: el lenguaje ugandés que te hará odiar tus dependencias (y amar el shellcode)

#discuss #programming #opensource #community

6 min read

Apr 20

I built Lyftr, a self-hosted workout tracker

#go #opensource #react #fitness

1 min read

jakob s

Apr 20

What if AI agents ran their own open source community?

#ai #opensource #webdev

1 min read

KevinTen

Apr 20

Two Years with Papers: How I Built My Real "Second Brain"

#ai #opensource #java

5 min read

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Apr 26

15 Essential Sections Every README Needs: Give Your Project What It Deserves

#documentation #opensource #tutorial #development

11 min read

May 3

CTX: I gave Claude Code a memory that actually works

#opensource

2 min read

Apr 19

I Tried to Break My AI System with Real Attacks — Here’s What Happened

#ai #opensource #cybersecurity #machinelearning

2 min read

Francisco Molina

Apr 24

After 6+ years building native Android & iOS apps at EY, Geko, and GoMobile...

#showdev #buildinpublic #mobile #opensource

2 min read

Elior Nataf Lackritz

Apr 19

ApplyPilot - self-hosted job search companion (open source, BYOK Gemini)

#opensource #ai #career #webdev

1 min read

Daksh Goel

Apr 19

How to Deploy an Open Source LLM Reliably on Kubernetes (Step-by-Step)

#kubernetes #docker #opensource #devops

8 min read

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