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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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Apr 13

How to Track LLM Costs and Rate Limits on AWS Bedrock with an AI Gateway

#aws #llm #opensource #ai

6 min read

HefestoAI

Apr 13

We ran our new code quality tool on FastAPI, Rich, and httpx. Here's what your linters are missing.

#python #security #devops #opensource

3 min read

K R Rohan

Apr 13

I Got Tired of Manually Managing INSTALLED_APPS in Django, So I Built a CLI Tool

#django #python #opensource #cli

6 min read

Apr 13

I built a /digest skill for Claude Code. No more HN rabbit holes.

#claude #productivity #opensource #digest

1 min read

Apr 13

Voice-Controlled Local AI Agent (Works Even on 8GB RAM)

#machinelearning #opensource #agents #ai

2 min read

Apr 13

Introducing ArchScope: Visual System Architecture Simulator

#systemdesign #opensource #webdev #programming

2 min read

Midas126

Apr 13

Building Your Own "Google Maps for Codebases": A Practical Guide to Codebase Q&A with AI

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

5 min read

Flame 🔥

Apr 13

No accounts. Just play.

#fun #react #beginners #opensource

1 min read

Apr 13

Uncovering the Hidden Data Costs of Mobile YouTube Video Ads

#webdev #research #networking #opensource

2 min read

Patryk

Apr 13

BALISTIC v6.0 — NASA SRTM Terrain Masking: Blast Zones Now Blocked by Real Mountains

#python #csharp #opensource #simulation

2 min read

Leonce Medewanou

May 6

I redirected laravel/nightwatch to my own Postgres and hit 13,400 payloads/s on a single instance

#laravel #php #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Siddharth Bhansali

Apr 17

I Built a Neumorphic CSS Library with 77+ Components — Here's What I Learned

#css #webdev #opensource #neumorphism

4 min read

Diwakar

Apr 13

I built the missing piece of the MCP ecosystem

#mcp #ai #opensource #devtools

3 min read

Apr 14

Zero application code for a REST API — semantic navigation with LinkLab

#typescript #webdev #api #opensource

6 min read

MCBEPluginModer

Apr 13

Building PeerLink — a decentralized P2P messenger in C++ with NAT traversal and relay fallback

#opensource #cpp #network #p2p

3 min read

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