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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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Aral Roca

May 19

I Built a DAW and a DJ Tool in the Browser Because My English Teacher Asked

#webdev #javascript #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

May 19

Found a Coordinated GitHub Follow Botnet Hiding in My Followers?

#security #github #python #opensource

7 min read

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Roberto B.

May 19

Understanding Correlation in PHP: Pearson vs Spearman vs Kendall Tau

#php #statistics #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Turbo31150

May 19

How I built a 6-node 12-GPU on-prem AI cluster running 1000+ agents

#ai #llm #infrastructure #opensource

3 min read

greymoth

May 20

Building an Inference OS: deterministic-first router for prediction markets

#ai #webdev #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Alex Voste

May 19

I haven't slept properly in days. I'm building a package manager for C. And I regret nothing.

#c #rust #go #opensource

2 min read

Artyom Rabzonov

May 19

Launching content-distribution-mcp: one finished post, eight channels

#mcp #python #opensource #automation

3 min read

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May 20

How I registered an MCP server for 3,760 retailers — and what I learned

#mcp #python #ai #opensource

3 min read

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May 19

Pop any UI component into a floating Picture-in-Picture window.

#opensource #webdev #react #javascript

6 min read

Truffle

May 19

The product is the chore, not the agent

#opensource #ai #startup #productivity

3 min read

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Sreejit Pradhan

May 19

Kimi WebBridge just gave AI agents hands inside your browser — and kept your data local

#ai #webdev #agents #opensource

3 min read

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Tahsine

May 19

Free 35B Multimodal LLM Server on Kaggle GPU — Accessible from Any OpenAI-Compatible Client

#llm #opensource #kaggle #python

4 min read

Alex Voste

May 19

I built a build tool in Go — and now I'm slowly rewriting pieces in Rust (fz 1.9.0 release)

#go #rust #buildsystem #opensource

2 min read

Aliyah Mohammed for Codev OS

May 19

Different models have different blind spots

#discuss #ai #opensource #showdev

2 min read

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May 19

Why hard contracts beat soft conventions when working with AI coding agents

#ai #claude #workflow #opensource

4 min read

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