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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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Jun 8

I Got Tired of Reading Strangers’ Codebases, So I Built an AI That Reads Them For Me

#ai #opensource #rag #productivity

4 min read

Shuo Wu

Jun 8

Flat Chat Threads Suck for Reading Books. So I Built a Local-First AI Tree Companion.

#showdev #ai #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jun 8

I Replaced Scrum, Jira, and Our Wiki With 12 AI Agents on a Mac Mini

#ai #opensource #devops #productivity

13 min read

Jun 8

I shipped a support desk by deleting a dependency

#laravel #php #saas #opensource

7 min read

Jun 8

ContextLens — py-spy/pprof but for what's inside your LLM prompt

#ai #llm #python #opensource

2 min read

Stephen

Jun 8

We Made Cron Speak Plain English, Then Open-Sourced It

#opensource #javascript #typescript #ai

7 min read

Jun 8

Your scraper says 200 OK. I measured how often it's lying.

#showdev #python #webscraping #opensource

6 min read

Jun 8

Your MCP server's write tools are silently dropping their body

#mcp #typescript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 8

Building an agentic Jira automation platform with MCP and Temporal

#ai #mcp #python #opensource

3 min read

Jun 8

What Building a Go PDF Engine Teaches You About Real Engineering

#ai #programming #go #opensource

10 min read

Jun 8

acroforge: turn a flat PDF into a real fillable AcroForm, with a deterministic core and zero copyleft

#showdev #python #opensource #pdf

6 min read

Werner Kasselman

Jun 8

llm-cli-gateway 2.5.0: OAuth for remote MCP connectors and safer workspaces

#mcp #ai #node #opensource

7 min read

Jun 8

What I learned shipping four open-source Claude dev-tools in two weekends

#claude #anthropic #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Jun 8

When TCP failed for IoT, I wrote a new protocol

#iot #networking #go #opensource

4 min read

Jun 8

AgentTrust ID is live

#ai #security #opensource #python

2 min read

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