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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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Thales Brederodes

Jun 17

macOS Still Has No Volume Mixer, So I Built One

#swift #opensource #macos #audio

4 min read

Jun 18

r4b1t_h0l3

#osint #security #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Glendel Joubert Fyne Acosta

Jun 18

AI Agents Don't Need More Memory. They Need Governed Recall.

#ai #multiagent #architecture #opensource

7 min read

Impact of sudden regulatory model recalls

Jonathan Murray

Jun 16

Why the Fable 5 Crisis Proves Your AI Context Layer Can't Live Inside the Model

#ai #coding #programming #opensource

3 min read

Stephanie Dover

Jun 18

Building repo conventions aware coding agents

#showdev #ai #opensource #agentskills

8 min read

Jun 18

How we built a medicine-substitution engine that refuses to be clever

#javascript #react #opensource #healthtech

9 min read

Jun 17

Pinion: Resumable File Uploads for PHP

#php #javascript #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Colemen

Jun 17

Building a Path-First State Engine for TypeScript Apps

#typescript #javascript #opensource #statemanagement

8 min read

Krishna shakula

Jun 18

I built an open-source browser agent that turns any website into structured JSON

#ai #python #opensource #webscraping

6 min read

Jun 17

I cut an AI agent's input tokens by 71% and quality held — here's the 66-task benchmark

#showdev #opensource #ai #typescript

6 min read

Jun 17

I'm a marketer, not an engineer. I shipped open-source AI infrastructure in 3 months by directing AI coding agents.

#ai #opensource #docker #mcp

3 min read

Jun 18

How I Pack Eleven Tool Domains into One PySide6 Window Without Spaghetti Wiring

#python #pyside6 #opensource #ai

5 min read

Varun Manjunath

Jun 18

Tired of the YouTube Doomscroll? Meet NoSuggest – A Quiet Act of Resistance

#webdev #productivity #javascript #opensource

2 min read

biao lin

Jun 18

Building a Plug-and-Play Agent Architecture with Python

#python #architecture #opensource #designpatterns

4 min read

Thales Brederodes

Jun 17

macOS Still Has No Volume Mixer, So I Built One

#swift #audio #macos #opensource

4 min read

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