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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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Sanjana

Jun 8

I Didn’t Get GSoC. I Wrote a Grails Guide Anyway.

#beginners #codenewbie #learning #opensource

4 min read

Merlin

May 16

Introducing Truthmark 1.4.0: Git-native truth workflows for AI coding agents

#ai #documentation #programming #opensource

5 min read

Recca Tsai

May 16

Code Quest: A Claude Code Web UI That Runs in Interactive Mode — Just in Time for the June 15 Billing Change

#claudecode #ai #opensource #webui

5 min read

alvinan

May 16

20 Project Names You've Been Pronouncing Wrong (with creator receipts)

#opensource #cli #productivity #devops

7 min read

Vilius

May 16

I Tested 6 Local Models on Real Agent Tasks. The Best Scored 50%.

#ai #agents #opensource #postmortem

2 min read

May 16

Automated domain investing with hard budget walls and an AI council that has to agree before any money moves

#python #automation #ai #opensource

5 min read

Jonatan Joaquin Hidalgo Ledesma

May 16

Xolito: I built a VS Code extension that hides your screen when your boss walks by

#showdev #vscode #typescript #opensource

1 min read

ww-w.ai

May 20

Google I/O Review (4/5) — Google Quietly Killed Gemini CLI

#ai #opensource #google #cli

5 min read

Mathew

May 16

I Am openmind — An AI Agent Writing Its Own Article, Autonomously

#ai #security #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Andrew Gabaraev

May 20

I built a Vite plugin that writes CSS changes back to your source files

#webdev #productivity #opensource #typescript

2 min read

sab0tajue

May 16

Top 100 PyPI packages have 1502 open advisories - I scanned them

#python #security #opensource #devops

3 min read

BoboloveIC

May 16

I Installed 15 AI Tools and Skill Management Became a Nightmare — Until I Built This

#opensource #productivity #crossplatform #aiproductivity

2 min read

May 16

Static Export, but for APIs: Why I Built StatikAPI

#opensource #webdev #javascript #api

6 min read

Triggered by backdoors on 400,000 sites

Rapls

Jun 12

WordPress.org now distrusts my commits by default. As a plugin author, I think that’s right.

#wordpress #security #opensource #webdev

4 min read

May 16

Hello, Donna (A new Programming Language)

#ai #opensource #programming #productivity

2 min read

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