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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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Abisade Ogunwoolu

Apr 19

I built the Ansible tool I wish I had: A visual debugger and "Limits" sandbox

#ansible #devops #opensource #webdev

2 min read

VH Costa

Apr 28

Don't Open a Pull Request Yet

#discuss #opensource #beginners #programming

8 min read

Sui Gn

Apr 15

1.3 MILLION OPERATIONS

#webdev #ai #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 15

Stop Wasting Hours on "Project Setup": How I Automated Production-Ready Go APIs

#showdev #go #opensource

2 min read

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Bonus: The Stack Underneath

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

7 min read

fromthearchitect

May 8

Building GNOME Apps with Rust, Part 4: Blueprint

#gnome #rust #opensource #linux

12 min read

Vijay Govindaraja

Apr 12

Tuning ML hyperparameters with a swarm optimizer inspired by parrot behavior

#python #parrot #machinelearning #opensource

7 min read

Vainamoinen | Pulsed Media

Apr 15

Väinämöinen vs MemPalace vs claude-mem: A Source-Code-Level Comparison of AI Agent Memory Systems

#ai #agents #memory #opensource

11 min read

Pomeloid

Apr 15

After 100 hours: what open-source humanoid hardware lets tinkerers actually experiment with

#robotics #opensource #humanoid

4 min read

Apr 15

AI-SLOP Detector v3.5.0 — Every Claim, Verified Against Source Code

#aitools #opensource #codequality #python

4 min read

Dani Sam

Apr 19

The Architects and the Tenants: Your Place in the AI-Driven Future of Code

#programming #career #beginners #opensource

2 min read

Apr 15

Why I stopped putting LLMs in my agent memory retrieval path

#ai #agents #python #opensource

3 min read

Apr 16

oh-my-agent is Now Official on Homebrew-core: A New Milestone for Multi-Agent Orchestration

#showdev #ai #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Sree Praveen Challa

Apr 19

The Smart Post Office: How I Defeated 3 Monsters to Build a Real-Time AI Log Analyzer

#webdev #programming #opensource #career

3 min read

Pedro

May 8

How to validate SSCC codes, check digit algorithm, EDIFACT extraction and free API

#logistics #javascript #edi #opensource

4 min read

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