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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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Space

Apr 7

The bounty trap: how open source reward systems exploit the people they claim to serve

#opensource #career

11 min read

Sui Gn

Apr 7

.me is dramatically faster than React and Zustand – Here are the numbers

#ai #webdev #programming #opensource

2 min read

Apr 7

Building a Reusable React Knowledge Graph Component: OKVE v0.3.0

#opensource #react #npm

1 min read

SOMRAT

Apr 30

I made 3 open-source tools to host n8n, OpenClaw, and PaperClip for free on Hugging Face

#ai #automation #opensource #agents

1 min read

Apr 7

Bigger Model Better Results: How to Stop Wasting Money on the Wrong AI

#ai #beginners #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Apr 7

How I Track Claude Code Costs Across Multiple PCs

#claude #productivity #opensource #github

4 min read

Rrezart Prebreza

Apr 7

REST API Generator

#springboot #java #opensource #backenddevelopment

1 min read

Maxim Berg

Apr 7

Your AI Agent Has a Shopping Problem. Here's the Intervention.

#ai #webdev #python #opensource

4 min read

David

Apr 7

VRAM Is the New RAM — A Practical Guide to Running Large Language Models on Consumer GPUs

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #tutorial

5 min read

Alan West

Apr 7

Google Dropped TurboQuant Two Weeks Ago. The Community Already Made It Usable.

#turboquant #locallm #inference #opensource

6 min read

Apr 12

AG2 vs CrewAI: The Complete Comparison (Including the AutoGen Rebrand Explained)

#news #agents #ai #opensource

17 min read

Sergey Kikevich

Apr 7

okama 2.0: New Withdrawal Strategies and a Faster Efficient Frontier

#news #datascience #opensource #python

7 min read

Apr 7

ML-based LLM request classifier for cost-optimized routing (~2ms inference)

#machinelearning #ai #opensource #llm

1 min read

Tal Nagar

Apr 7

My agent burned $200 in one night. So I built something that stops it.

#ai #opensource #programming #python

2 min read

Apr 7

mom, a Slack bot powered by an LLM, in pi-mono codebase.

#opensource #slackbot #skills #docker

2 min read

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