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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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keesan.eth

May 27

MartinLoop: a control plane for AI coding agents

#devtools #ai #opensource

1 min read

May 31

I Built pretext-pdf: Serverless PDFs Without Chromium

#showdev #pdf #opensource #serverless

2 min read

May 26

Trace Norwegian shell companies directly via Brønnøysundregistrene API

#api #kyb #compliance #opensource

3 min read

CodeKing

May 26

"My AI Assistant Could Code, But It Couldn't Operate My Desktop"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jun 18

Your AGENTS.md is valid. Your agent still breaks the rules.

#ai #opensource #llm #aiagents

6 min read

hyhmrright

May 26

🤖 StockAI: I Built an AI-Powered StockAI News Analyzer That Supports OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek & Local LLMs

#ai #opensource #rust #react

4 min read

hwlsniper

May 26

I Built a Privacy-First PDF Toolbox — Your Files Never Leave the Browser

#opensource #webdev #javascript #tutorial

1 min read

D

May 26

Why I stopped rotating active log files in Python

#python #opensource #logging #programming

9 min read

May 26

Agent Launch: one CLI for local coding agents

#ai #cli #opensource #tooling

1 min read

Werner Kasselman

May 26

Cache-Aware Spawning: What Changed in llm-cli-gateway, a Week On

#ai #llm #cli #opensource

12 min read

May 26

My Open Source Security Scanner Got Flagged as a Trojan by Windows Defender

#go #security #microsoft #opensource

6 min read

Oz Gomez

Jun 8

I renamed my AI agent safety tool and added a team dashboard — here's what drove those decisions

#ai #devtools #opensource #claude

2 min read

May 26

# Level Up Your Portfolio with Wowfolio.in: Free, Customizable,

#showdev #career #opensource #webdev

3 min read

CodeKing

May 26

"My AI Assistant Could Code, But It Couldn't Operate My Desktop"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

4 min read

Niko

May 26

Contributing Upstream Instead of Forking: My grape-swagger-rails Story

#api #opensource #rails #ruby

2 min read

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