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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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Feb 15

I Gave My AI Agent a Brain. Then I Had to Protect It.

#ai #security #memory #opensource

5 min read

wokki20

Feb 15

JSPT: The Toast & Popup Library That Actually Makes Sense

#javascript #webdev #opensource #tutorial

4 min read

Feb 15

Building a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for Stellar RPC with Rust and Ratatui

#stellar #rust #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Feb 15

Aurora OS.js : I built a web-tech OS. It’s kinda an OS. Fine... it’s a hacking game.

#webdev #gamedev #reactnative #opensource

4 min read

Debdut Chakraborty for Rocket.Chat

Feb 13

Conditions, Phases, and Declarative Phase Rules in Kubernetes Operators

#kubernetes #devops #opensource #cloud

8 min read

NocoBase

Feb 15

NocoBase 2.0 Officially Released

#news #ai #opensource #nocode

4 min read

Feb 14

Introducing NotumAi: The Open-Source, AI-Powered Annotation Tool

#opensource #python #javascript #deeplearning

2 min read

Feb 13

Command Center for AI Coding Agents (Claude Code + Codex)

#opensource #ai #codex #claude

3 min read

Yurukusa

Feb 14

4 Hooks That Let Claude Code Run Autonomously (With Zero Babysitting)

#bash #opensource #claudecode #automation

2 min read

Feb 15

I Built a Zero-Dependency Manga Viewer in Vanilla JavaScript 📖

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Feb 14

Opik: Your Agent's Black Box Flight Recorder

#agents #llm #opensource #testing

5 min read

Feb 15

I Replaced 25 Lines of OpenAI Boilerplate with 6 — Here's the Library

#typescript #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

nomad4tech

Feb 15

Building a Minimal Telegram Bot Library for Java - Handler Chain Pattern

#java #telegram #springboot #opensource

5 min read

JackWu

Feb 15

Automating 4 macOS Terminals for Claude Code: AppleScript, Ghostty's `-e` Trap, and Warp's Missing API

#showdev #swift #productivity #opensource

9 min read

SatoMiHill

Feb 15

[Github Discoveries] PeonPing: AI Programming with Warcraft III Voice Prompts, Making Claude Code Less Boring

#ai #opensource #programming #tooling

3 min read

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