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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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Mar 3

I Created An Enterprise MCP Gateway

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

6 min read

Aleksandar Maletic

Mar 2

Meet BlokJS - 9 KB, No Build Step, Standalone, Full FE Framework

#javascript #frontend #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Salma Alam-Naylor

Mar 3

How to make your first contribution to an open source project

#webdev #opensource

11 min read

Mar 3

Supervision Framework for Multi-Agent LLMs: 52 Production Runs of the Deterministic Observability Framework (DOF)

#ai #opensource #automation

4 min read

Salman Shahriar

Mar 4

I Spent 50 Hours Building a Next.js Boilerplate So You Can Ship in 30 Minutes

#nextjs #typescript #webdev #opensource

7 min read

Qi

Mar 4

I Built a Free PostgreSQL Health Checker with 23 MCP Tools and CI Integration

#postgres #devtools #opensource #ai

3 min read

Ananya for OWASP BLT

Mar 4

A New Chapter for OWASP BLT: Our Website Revamp is Live! ✨

#opensource #ui #owaspblt #webdev

1 min read

Hata

Mar 4

Claude Code Forgets Everything Between Sessions. I Tested 5 Fixes.

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

7 min read

berthelius

Mar 4

I Built an MCP Server for My ERP — Here's What I Learned

#mcp #ai #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Diego Antequera

Mar 4

How I stopped my AI agents from getting dumber after 10 turns

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

9 min read

Mar 4

Your MCP Servers Are Safe. Your Config Isn't.

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

7 min read

Mar 4

Most "Multi-Agent" Frameworks Are Just Multiple Prompts Wearing a Trenchcoat

#ai #typescript #opensource #programming

7 min read

Mar 3

71 Malicious Skills Found on ClawHub. Here's How to Protect Your Agent.

#ai #security #opensource #agents

5 min read

Mar 3

I got tired of writing the same 80-line setup script for every AI worktree

#git #devtools #opensource #ai

3 min read

吴迦

Mar 4

Inside OpenClaw: How the World's Fastest-Growing AI Agent Actually Works Under the Hood

#ai #opensource #architecture #aws

14 min read

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