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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.

submission guidelines

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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Glen Yu for Google Developer Experts

Mar 31

Implementing a RAG system: Walk

#rag #genai #opensource #adk

4 min read

Cover image for QuillSort — A data sorter

Apr 1

QuillSort — A data sorter

#python #datascience #performance #opensource

4 min read

Apr 1

The MacBook Neo Proves Apple Could Always Make Repairable Laptops — They Just Didn't Want To

#apple #righttorepair #hardware #opensource

3 min read

0xSmold

Mar 31

Why I replaced a 3MB "Burn-after-reading" tool with my own 30KB Phoenix engine

#showdev #opensource #privacy #security

1 min read

OpenClawResource

Apr 1

What is OpenClaw? Your AI Agent in the Machine

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

1 min read

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Wallet Guy

Mar 31

ERC-8004 Trustless Agents: Onchain Reputation for AI

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

6 min read

Md. Hasan Monsur

Apr 1

ClawMoat — Protecting Your Machine from AI Agent Threats

#ai #programming #opensource

1 min read

Denis

Mar 31

TurboQuant MoE 0.3.0

#developer #opensource #llm #ai

1 min read

Yes No

Mar 31

Hello world

#tui #opensource #productivity #markdown

1 min read

Kang

Mar 31

Your AI Agent Has No Tests - Here's How to Fix That in 5 Minutes

#ai #testing #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Cover image for What Nobody Tells You About Building a Protocol for AI Agents

Apr 1

What Nobody Tells You About Building a Protocol for AI Agents

#opensource #ai #protocol #buildinpublic

5 min read

Cover image for The Evidence Is in the Phone. Most of It Never Makes It Into the Case.

Apr 1

The Evidence Is in the Phone. Most of It Never Makes It Into the Case.

#opensource #iphone #forensics

5 min read

Cover image for Stop Searching, Start Contributing: How GoodFirstGo is Making Open Source Approachable

Mar 31

Stop Searching, Start Contributing: How GoodFirstGo is Making Open Source Approachable

#showdev #beginners #go #opensource

3 min read

Cover image for The Agent Economy Needs Infrastructure, Not Custody

Wallet Guy

Apr 1

The Agent Economy Needs Infrastructure, Not Custody

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

Art

Mar 31

SOUL — We Don't Translate. We Remember.

#discuss #linguistic #opensource #indigenous

4 min read

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