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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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Salma Alam-Naylor

Mar 3

How to make your first contribution to an open source project

#webdev #opensource

11 min read

Mar 3

I Created An Enterprise MCP Gateway

#opensource #ai #mcp #webdev

6 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

Aleksandar Maletic

Mar 2

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

#javascript #frontend #webdev #opensource

6 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

Mar 3

How I Used go/ast to Auto-Generate API Docs from Go HTTP Handlers

#go #opensource #webdev #tutorial

3 min read

Mar 3

I built a tool that shows you which files break before you push

#vscode #github #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Prakersh Maheshwari

Mar 3

I Got Tired of Checking 6 AI Dashboards, So I Built a CLI That Checks Them All

#ai #opensource #antigravity #productivity

3 min read

Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham

Mar 3

I built a universal memory layer that works across every AI tool — here's how it works

#ai #python #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 3

Your AI Agent Earned $0 Because the Marketplace Doesn't Exist Yet

#ai #agents #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Tatsuya Shimomoto

Mar 3

I Found the Shortest Route to Ship My Claude Code Skills to 57,000 Developers

#claudecode #opensource #skill #agentskills

5 min read

Dariusz Newecki

Mar 3

Closing the Loop: From Audit Violation to AI Fix in One Command

#ai #python #devops #opensource

4 min read

Arnav Kirti for OWASP BLT

Mar 3

Open Source Journey: Contributing to OWASP BLT

#opensource #security #learning

3 min read

MeisnerDan

Mar 3

How I Built an Autonomous Daemon to Manage My AI Agents

#ai #typescript #nextjs #opensource

6 min read

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