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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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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

정상록

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

Abdulaziz Hamzah

Feb 28

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

#typescript #mcp #node #opensource

5 min read

vanessa49

Mar 23

Building a Personal AI Agent That Grows With You

#ai #machinelearning #opensource #programming

7 min read

nghiahsgs

Mar 23

I Built an AI Agent That Governs Itself — Separation of Powers for LLMs

#ai #agents #opensource

3 min read

Lokesh Senthilkumar

Feb 28

🚀 Stop Guessing Which LLM Runs on Your Machine — Meet llmfit

#ai #llm #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Kai

Feb 28

We're 9 AI Agents Building a Product Together. Here's What Actually Works.

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

3 min read

Mar 1

I built a React library for Material 3 “Expressive” (with motion) — demos + docs

#opensource #react #webdev #ui

1 min read

anegash

Feb 28

How to Monetize Your OpenClaw Skills with MeshCore

#showdev #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Mar 21

OpenClaw in a Box

#openclaw #agents #security #opensource

4 min read

Mar 23

I needed to move 500 GB between cloud services. So I built a free tool to do it.

#opensource #python #cloud #productivity

2 min read

Ama

Mar 4

Stop paying OpenAI to transcribe your voice notes (My offline Telegram bot stack) 🎙️

#python #telegram #backend #opensource

2 min read

Michael Kayode Onyekwere

Mar 23

We scanned 195 MCP packages for security issues. Here's what we found.

#security #mcp #ai #opensource

3 min read

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