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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 16

From Specifications to Software: AiLang’s First Cross-Platform Application

#ai #opensource #programming #webassembly

3 min read

May 28

Stop letting LLMs hallucinate dates — a tool for AI agents

#typescript #llm #opensource #ai

2 min read

Sabir Semerkant

May 24

I built an open protocol to make AI coding agents follow senior-engineering workflows

#ai #opensource #programming #devtools

2 min read

Kamishetti Varshitha

May 24

Safeguard AI — a multilingual disaster preparedness assistant powered by Gemma 4

#gemma #python #opensource #programming

1 min read

NISHANT UNAVANE

May 28

Atlas MCP Server — 33 Developer Tools in One Package

#mcp #ai #opensource #claude

2 min read

Lingdas1

May 24

AI Is Too Expensive? I Run It for Free on My Laptop

#ai #beginners #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Elia “Airtis” Shmuelovitch

May 28

Our Automated Security Audit Was 0% Precise — Here's What an AST Pass Found

#ai #security #opensource #automation

4 min read

Jun 6

How I built an intent drift detector for LLM agents

#ai #python #opensource #llm

1 min read

Secret_Agent_007

May 23

I got so tired of typing that I built a voice input tool. Here's what changed.

#opensource #productivity #microsoft #ai

3 min read

NISHANT UNAVANE

May 28

I Built a VS Code Extension That Runs Code in 40+ Languages published: true

#vscode #typescript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

May 28

I Built an App That Maps Any GitHub Repo : Because I Was Tired of Feeling Lost in Code

#opensource #webdev #ai #beginners

8 min read

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May 24

I built a minimal MCP server starter so you don't have to

#mcp #typescript #opensource #webdev

1 min read

NISHANT UNAVANE

May 28

Building Axiom — A Claude Code-Style Terminal Agent with 7 LLM Providers

#cli #typescript #ai #opensource

1 min read

May 23

The Git Filesystem - Recreating the Content-Addressable Database

#git #github #opensource #architecture

9 min read

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May 24

GitHub Bounty 赏金接单全攻略：从0到第一桶金

#github #bounty #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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