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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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Andrew

May 6

Nanobot Review: HKU's 4K-Line Personal AI Agent Framework

#nanobot #hkuds #personalaiagent #opensource

10 min read

ZenDrx

May 6

Telegem v3.4.0 is out – Bot API 9.6, Redis store, and looking back at 4.5 months of building

#showdev #ruby #telegram #opensource

2 min read

Mininglamp

May 6

Dual Launch! Mininglamp Technology Open-Sources Cider On-Device Inference Acceleration Framework and Mano-P On-Device Model

#ai #programming #agents #opensource

5 min read

Dominic Robinson

May 6

Automating SQL Server Database Administration with T-SQL Utility Scripts

#automation #database #opensource #sql

4 min read

Muhammad Tri Wibowo

May 10

9ed — A Zed-like Editor You Can Access From Anywhere

#ai #productivity #webdev #opensource

3 min read

Vilius

May 7

Every Agent I Delegated To Kept Failing. I Finally Checked the Model.

#ai #agents #devops #opensource

2 min read

emhamitay

May 6

I built a code snippet manager — and it's live

#webdev #typescript #opensource #nextjs

1 min read

Lyra

May 6

Stop Babysitting Container Updates: Practical Podman Auto-Updates with Quadlet, Health Checks, and Rollback

#linux #podman #opensource #automation

6 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

May 6

8 Tools Powering the Fastest-Growing Startups in 2026

#webdev #opensource #programming #tooling

7 min read

Jaime

May 6

Building a Local JARVIS (v1.1) 🤖: Adding PC Automation and a "Living Profile"

#ai #python #opensource #github

1 min read

YHH

May 6

The boring secret to a cheap AI coding agent — a byte-stable prompt prefix

#showdev #ai #opensource #typescript

5 min read

May 6

Introducing Cossmology: a Map of the Commercial OSS Universe

#opensource #commercialopensource #startup

1 min read

Ismoy Belizaire

May 6

New ImagePickerKMP API: The easiest way to handle Camera and Gallery in Kotlin Multiplatform

#ai #opensource #kotlin #mobile

2 min read

Enmanuel Magallanes Pinargote

May 6

I got tired of AI agents roaming my codebase — so I built a harness layer

#ai #opensource #tooling #agents

2 min read

May 6

I freed 80GB on my Mac with a bash script — no app, no subscription

#macos #bash #opensource #productivity

3 min read

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