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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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Michael Bennett

Feb 7

I Built a Free Tool to Find Quantum-Vulnerable Cryptography in Your Code

#security #devops #opensource

1 min read

Feb 6

Your Agent Is Slow Because of Inference

#ai #aiops #opensource #inference

1 min read

Y H

Feb 6

Introducing OpenClaw Assistant: Open Source Android Voice Assistant with Wake Word Detection

#showdev #android #opensource #ai

1 min read

Arjun

Feb 7

I Built a Global Store That Automatically Adjusts Price and Language (No JSON Files Required)

#webdev #hackathon #opensource #programming

2 min read

Marco

Feb 19

I built an open-source AI agent that actually does SEO — not just talks about it

#showdev #agents #ai #opensource

3 min read

iFarouq

Feb 10

# iFarouqCSS v2.3.0 Released: Community-Driven Improvements 🚀

#css #webdev #opensource #ifarouqcss

1 min read

PSBigBig OneStarDao

Feb 6

What Kind of Language Is the “Tension Universe”?

#discuss #development #performance #opensource

7 min read

Feb 5

We Tried to Build Analytics Without a Database. It Sort of Worked.

#programming #opensource #database #tutorial

3 min read

Feb 6

Day 5: The Guidance arrives... Finally!

#devjournal #opensource

4 min read

Mar 1

Why AI Agents Need Their Own Authorization Protocol (and how we built one)

#ai #security #opensource #webdev

6 min read

Feb 6

OpenAI Just Got "Swarmed": Kimi k2.5 and the Death of the Single Agent

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #futureoftech

3 min read

Daniel Skov Jacobsen

Feb 5

I built an Open-Source CLI that stops your AI terminal from leaking secrets

#ai #security #opensource #cli

4 min read

Mar 1

Stop Using QR Codes That Expire — Build Permanent, Branded QR Codes for Free

#webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Feb 6

A Product Page Erased $285 Billion. Here's What the Audit Trail Should Have Captured.

#fintech #cryptography #veritaschain #opensource

8 min read

younes

Feb 7

Why I Built a 100% Client-Side PDF Toolkit (And Why Privacy Matters)

#webdev #javascript #privacy #opensource

2 min read

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