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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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Jun 23

Beyond the Hype: Testing Gemma-4-12B Agentic GGUFs in the Wild

#ai #llm #opensource #agenticai

2 min read

Jun 23

I Was Tired of Rebuilding a CMS Features in Laravel, So I Built FalconCMS

#laravel #php #webdev #opensource

2 min read

刘泰宏

Jun 23

Getting Started with Skill Hub Manage Your AI Agent Skills Like a Pro

#rust #tauri #ai #opensource

2 min read

Jun 23

I built DevTime - a local-first CLI that helps a repo explain itself from evidence

#cli #git #opensource #python

3 min read

Sugih AF

Jun 23

Your Context Deserves Git-Like Treatment, Just Like Your Code

#ai #mcp #opensource #llm

2 min read

Jun 23

Turning Waste Into Opportunity

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Arsen Apostolov

Jun 23

How to Rank Local LLMs by Cost per Correct Answer (Measured GPU Energy, 8 Ollama Models)

#machinelearning #llm #gpu #opensource

4 min read

Jun 23

User Roles & Permissions for Business

#dotnet #postgres #keycloak #opensource

3 min read

Solidus Network

Jun 23

"Another identity L1?" — answered with standards, not whitepaper

#blockchain #identity #opensource #web3

4 min read

Syed Ali Hasan Moosavi

Jun 24

I'm Building a Blockchain Ecosystem From Scratch — Here's Everything I've Shipped So Far

#opensource #blockchain #ai #buildinpublic

3 min read

Jun 23

I Open-Sourced an AI Skill for Generating Minimalist Hand-Drawn Illustrations

#opensource #ai #art #github

2 min read

Manuel Bruña for Agent Project Context

Jun 23

Permission Mode Lives in APX, Not APC

#ai #opensource #devtools #tutorial

3 min read

Anuj ojha

Jun 23

I shipped Sipcode today: keeping Claude Code's context clean for sharper answers

#ai #claude #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Jun 23

Glama clones your repo. Smithery proxies your HTTP. mcp.so wants a markdown line.

#mcp #claude #opensource #devops

4 min read

Chris Lam

Jun 23

Hermes Core Skills: 25 Executable AI Agent Skills for Debugging, Planning & Token Efficiency

#ai #opensource #productivity #python

1 min read

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