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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 4

Building CommonTrace: A Neuroscience-Inspired Knowledge Base for AI Coding Agents

#ai #opensource #architecture #python

3 min read

Mar 3

I Created An Enterprise MCP Gateway

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

6 min read

Mar 4

d3motap3 — A Multi-Source Video Recorder for macOS That Captures Phone + PC Screens Simultaneously

#opensource #rust #electron

2 min read

Mar 4

Meet WatchClaw: One Command to Harden a Linux Server

#security #linux #devops #opensource

3 min read

Mar 4

Zero to Java Dev — Day 0 🚀💻

#java #learninginpublic #opensource #buildinpublic

1 min read

Pepsi

Mar 4

Why JSON.parse Fails on Valid JSON (Hidden Unicode Characters)

#webdev #javascript #opensource #debugging

1 min read

Mar 4

I Shipped Broken Code and Wrote an Article About It

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

5 min read

Kai

Mar 4

Sign in with Claude (or OpenAI) — your AI agent team is live in 7 minutes

#ai #agents #opensource #webdev

2 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

aimin wang

Mar 4

I Built a Free AI Tools Directory with 500+ Tools, Comparisons & Prompt Templates

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

1 min read

Alessandro Pireno

Mar 4

10 Things That Need a Shell: Where the Filesystem Metaphor Could Fix Agent Interfaces

#ai #opensource #agents #devtools

8 min read

Wes

Mar 4

Your LLM Doesn't Need 200 Lines of Test Output

#opensource #rust #ai #tooling

6 min read

Arul

Mar 4

I built a standalone CLI table library with Interactive TUI, SQLite, and Sparklines

#node #typescript #cli #opensource

4 min read

Danni Friedland

Mar 4

I Built an AI Coding Agent That Lives in Your Browser

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

5 min read

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