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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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Chad Wiley

May 21

CrimsonOS: Building a Mobile OS from the Firmware Up

#opensource #security #osdev #arm

2 min read

May 21

Lessons from Building Bombie: SPA Deep Links, CSP, and an Iframe Preview

#react #webdev #opensource #deployment

6 min read

May 21

Holy Typos, Batman! How I Built 'SpellJump'

#showdev #programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jason

May 21

Building AI Digital Employees with Markus: An Open-Source AI Workforce Platform

#showdev #opensource #ai #agents

5 min read

May 26

Stop posting boring black-and-white screenshots of your code. I built a free tool to fix this.

#webdev #javascript #frontend #opensource

2 min read

May 22

Building a Global Digital Store in a Country that Hates Cryptocurrency

#webdev #programming #opensource #community

2 min read

Ricardo Frasson

May 21

Why I built a multi-agent build pipeline on top of the Claude Agent SDK

#showdev #ai #agents #opensource

4 min read

Hermes Agent Challenge Submission

MOHAN SRIRAM KUNAMSETTY

May 21

Hermes Agent Under the Hood: The Open-Source Runtime for Autonomous AI Systems

#hermesagentchallenge #devchallenge #agents #opensource

16 min read

May 21

I Got Tired of Untyped MQTT Payloads, So I Built a Library

#typescript #mqtt #iot #opensource

4 min read

Kellen

May 21

Launching opub: donated compute for open-source maintainers

#opensource #ai #webdev #programming

6 min read

Jun 13

MyStackBlazor: An Open-Source Blazor Component Library

#showdev #dotnet #opensource #ui

3 min read

Saray Chak for Bawbel

May 22

We scanned 500 MCP servers on Smithery. Here is what we found.

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

4 min read

May 22

ToolRouter: Switch AI Coding Tools Freely Without Losing Context

#machinelearning #llm #python #opensource

6 min read

Jun 4

How I got officially acknowledged as a MusicBrainz Picard contributor

#devjournal #learning #opensource #softwaredevelopment

7 min read

Glendel Joubert Fyne Acosta

May 26

Evidence Beats Claims: Why AI Agents Need Runtime Proof

#ai #multiagent #architecture #opensource

4 min read

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