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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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Mar 1

NIST Is Standardizing AI Agent Security — ClawMoat Already Ships It

#security #ai #opensource #standards

5 min read

bada

Mar 1

I Built a macOS App to Stop Links From Opening in the Wrong Chrome Profile

#showdev #productivity #opensource #automation

2 min read

Cesar Menegatti

Mar 1

Stop Writing Date Helpers in Go: Introducing go-date-fns

#go #opensource #programming #development

3 min read

Mar 21

I Added AI to Any Website With One Line of JavaScript — Here's How

#javascript #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Safdar Ali

Mar 14

AI for Nearly a Billion: Why WordPress 7.0 Changes the Open AI Landscape

#webdev #ai #wordpress #opensource

2 min read

Mar 5

How to Convert Markdown to PDF in React Native (The Easy Way)

#reactnative #javascript #opensource #expo

5 min read

Andrew Jewell Sr

Feb 28

Why I Built a Multi-Paradigm Database in Rust — And Deployed It on 50+ Raspberry Pis

#rust #database #opensource #iot

15 min read

Michael Kayode Onyekwere

Mar 23

I gave my AI coding assistant a memory. It changed how I work.

#ai #productivity #mcp #opensource

3 min read

Mainuddin

Mar 5

Building an AI Prediction API with FastAPI: Lessons from an Open Source Project

#machinelearning #fastapi #opensource #python

3 min read

Jane Alesi

Feb 28

Zero-Width Steganography: Invisible Commands Manipulate AI Agents

#security #ai #unicode #opensource

3 min read

Dor Amir

Feb 28

Why Automatic Prompt Classification Beats Manual Routing Rules

#llm #ai #opensource #programming

3 min read

Jason Sosa

Mar 5

I Built an Agent That Trades on Bitcoin Lightning. It remembered nothing. So I built a brain.

#bitcoin #ai #opensource #lightning

3 min read

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Feb 28

How I Built oh-my-zsh for Claude Code: 11 Agents, 36 Commands, and 6-Layer Security

#claudecode #ai #programming #opensource

9 min read

vanessa49

Mar 23

Building a Personal AI Agent That Grows With You

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #programming

7 min read

Abdulaziz Hamzah

Feb 28

Building a Quran Search MCP Server: From Monorepo to npm Package

#typescript #mcp #node #opensource

5 min read

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