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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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Adam

Jun 14

I built a 3B lease risk scanner that runs without an external LLM API

#ai #machinelearning #huggingface #opensource

5 min read

Constantin Razinsky

Jun 14

UVS: a draw's fairness as a fact you can recompute — not a certificate you trust

#showdev #cryptography #opensource #security

5 min read

Lucas

Jun 14

I tried "GEO" on my indie tool — it was just SEO (here's the GSC data)

#seo #nextjs #webdev #opensource

5 min read

Jun 14

I built a live diff monitor for the terminal in Rust

#rust #opensource #productivity #cli

2 min read

aditya kachhdiya

Jun 14

Building an AI-Resistant Post-Quantum VPN in Rust 🦀 (With an Open Crypto Challenge)

#rust #security #opensource #networking

3 min read

Jun 14

I built an AI code reviewer as a GitHub Action — here's what I learned

#ai #github #opensource #devtools

3 min read

ProfiDE

Jun 15

Turn any PHP host into a gateway to your local network with host2gateway

#showdev #php #opensource #networking

2 min read

Jun 14

When the conclusion comes first

#opensource #loadbalancer #aiops

6 min read

Alexey Sitnikov

Jun 14

I built an offline wiki that fits in a single 19 KB HTML file

#showdev #opensource #webdev #javascript

4 min read

Jun 14

We Built a Self-Hosted AI Platform That Runs 100% on Your Hardware — Introducing local-ai.run

#ai #llm #selfhosted #opensource

5 min read

Christopher Maher

Jun 14

Making a fleet of self-hosted LLM agents trustworthy

#ai #llm #kubernetes #opensource

6 min read

Jun 14

Give Your Local AI Tool-Calling Superpowers with Open WebUI and MCP

#ai #tutorial #opensource #beginners

2 min read

Jun 14

you can run my soc triage tool without an api key, and that was kind of the point

#cybersecurity #typescript #react #opensource

4 min read

Jun 14

Build a Private Voice Assistant with Whisper, Ollama, and Kokoro TTS

#ai #tutorial #opensource #python

2 min read

Jun 14

AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal with Aider and Ollama

#ai #opensource #tutorial #python

2 min read

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