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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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Mar 11

The Ephemerality Gap: Tackling Data Loss in AI-Generated UIs with an Open-Source Fix

#ai #webdev #reactjsdevelopment #opensource

3 min read

xarcho

Mar 11

I built a CLI that finds dying files in your codebase

#python #cli #devtools #opensource

1 min read

Lightning Developer

Mar 11

Understanding Your Local AI Playground: A Look at Port 3080 and LibreChat

#webdev #productivity #tutorial #opensource

3 min read

Mar 11

Building ng-beacon: a lightweight guided tour library for Angular

#webdev #javascript #angular #opensource

5 min read

Jeffrin

Mar 11

How I Built a Duplicate File Finder That Handles 1 Million Files Without Crashing

#python #opensource #cli #tutorial

5 min read

Santiago Moraga Caldera

Mar 11

Layout Builder Expansion & Signature Input – Shadcn UI Multi Form v1.5.0

#opensource #nextjs #shadcnui #buildinpublic

3 min read

The Nexus Guard

Mar 11

3,000 Downloads, 14 Users: What I Learned About the Cold-Start Problem in Agent Identity

#ai #opensource #security #devops

3 min read

Mar 11

Stop Solving Solved Problems: Escaping the Cycle of Duplicated Code

#discuss #beginners #softwareengineering #opensource

3 min read

Mar 11

OpenAI Batch API: Adaptive Status Checks

#ai #javascript #rxjs #opensource

5 min read

Mar 11

OpenSSL 4.0 Is Coming: Encrypted Client Hello and New Cryptographic Features

#news #opensource #privacy #security

3 min read

Mar 11

I built a numpad-only language for PLC programming

#opensource #javascript #ai #programming

2 min read

Mar 11

I built a zero-config observability tool for Node.js that auto-detects N+1 queries

#node #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Djowda for Djowda

Mar 11

We Open-Sourced a Protocol to Fix How the Food Supply Chain Talks to Itself

#opensource #protocol #foodtech #architecture

6 min read

Echo.lee for seekdb

Mar 11

Building RAG & Knowledge Bases with seekdb: Three Paths, One Stack

#ai #vectordatabase #rag #opensource

4 min read

정상록

Mar 11

AI 에이전트가 GIMP, Blender를 CLI로 조작한다? CLI-Anything 오픈소스 둘러보기

#agents #ai #cli #opensource

2 min read

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