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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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Chris Lam

Jun 23

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

#ai #opensource #productivity #python

1 min read

Jun 23

TensorSharp.ai Review: A .NET-Native Way to Run GGUF Models Locally

#ai #opensource #dotnet #csharp

5 min read

madazz01

Jun 23

The Invisible Web: Why AI Can't Find Your Website (And How to Fix It)

#ai #webdev #seo #opensource

3 min read

Jason Shen

Jun 23

If You Disable Codex’s SQLite Logs, What Keeps Your Project Memory Alive?

#ai #opensource #productivity #python

7 min read

chowyu

Jun 23

How AIClaw Extends Agents with Custom Tools and MCP Servers

#ai #opensource #agents #webdev

4 min read

Jun 23

Stop Benchmarking AI Coding Agents on Todo Apps. Make Them Build an MMO.

#ai #claude #gamedev #opensource

5 min read

Jahanzaib Iqbal for Global Software Consulting

Jun 23

We Open-Sourced a HIPAA Gap Auditor That Runs Inside Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot & Windsurf

#hippa #opensource #ai #cursor

3 min read

Jun 23

How Microsoft Has Changed Since Its IPO: 40 Years of Financial Data with the Finance Toolkit

#python #ai #opensource #mcp

10 min read

Art

Jun 22

ForgeIL Has Been Self-Hosting Since May. Nobody Found It

#showdev #opensource #compilers #llvm

3 min read

Muhammad Omer Mirza

Jun 23

Convert a PDF to PowerPoint (.pptx) entirely in the browser

#javascript #webdev #pdf #opensource

4 min read

isabelle dubuis

Jun 23

Voice Cloning Ethics – The 3 Lines We Must Never Cross

#ai #machinelearning #opensource

5 min read

Jun 23

color-zone — A React Color Picker with Gradient Support, EyeDropper, and a Headless Hook

#react #typescript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Jun 23

Do not treat LangGraph as a longer chain: define state, interrupts, and recovery first

#llm #ai #opensource #python

4 min read

Martin Palopoli

Jun 22

Cron jobs without Celery, Redis, or Beat: how Fitz puts a distributed scheduler inside the language

#webdev #python #opensource #programming

7 min read

MORINAGA

Jun 22

Five things that caught my attention this week in AI tools and open-source models

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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