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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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Nex AI

Apr 5

I Built 15 OpenClaw Skills for Belgian SMEs: Technical Decisions and Lessons Learned

#python #opensource #api #ecommerce

5 min read

WonderLab

Apr 6

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 31): awesome-openclaw-usecases - A Collection of Real OpenClaw Use Cases

#ai #opensource #openclaw

7 min read

Apr 5

Why agent RBAC is broken in most CLI frameworks (and how to fix it)

#ai #security #devops #opensource

4 min read

Aayush kumarsingh

May 8

Why comparing average scores is the wrong way to evaluate LLM prompts (and what to do instead)

#python #llm #machinelearning #opensource

6 min read

Ryan Swift

May 6

Mac-Only? Just Fork It

#agents #linux #ai #opensource

5 min read

solido

Apr 5

I Built a Cost Calculator for the OpenClaw Ban Because It Hit Me Too

#showdev #ai #indiehacker #opensource

2 min read

Wu Long

Apr 5

The Silent Freeze: When Your Model Runs Out of Credits Mid-Conversation

#ai #opensource #errors #llm

1 min read

guanjiawei

Apr 7

The DeepSeek Moment for the Open Source Community

#ai #opensource #models #reflection

6 min read

Meeko

Apr 5

I Built a 367-Engine Autonomous System That Funds Mutual Aid

#opensource #python #automation #ai

2 min read

David

Apr 5

We Just Shipped a Coding Agent Inside a Desktop AI App — Here's How It Works

#ai #opensource #rust #typescript

3 min read

Apr 5

New Way to Handle 2 Million Search Queries Without a Search Server

#webdev #javascript #tutorial #opensource

8 min read

Srigururam Srinivasan

Apr 5

I designed an AI second brain companion that connects what no single app can see — looking for builders

#ai #opensource #privacy #sideprojects

3 min read

Apr 5

We Made AI Too Agreeable. Here's What It Cost Us.

#ai #opensource #claudecode #productivity

6 min read

Sergio Ramos Vicente

Apr 5

I was burning through AI tokens without realizing it. Here's how I fixed it.

#ai #tooling #opensource #claude

3 min read

Apr 10

Cleaning Broken HTML Tables from PDFs, Scrapes, and Legacy Exports in Vanilla JS

#javascript #webdev #opensource #html

6 min read

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