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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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May 28

What Makes You Instantly Trust a GitHub Repository?

#discuss #opensource #github #ai

1 min read

May 17

I built a self-hosted news digest that re-ranks itself based on what you actually read

#opensource #python #selfhosted #webdev

4 min read

Oliver

Apr 28

How I orchestrated 5,000 agent job cycles on Arc Testnet (and turned it into a reusable TypeScript kit)

#typescript #ai #webdev #opensource

5 min read

May 17

gogpu/compose: Multi-Process GUI Composition in Pure Go

#go #opensource #architecture #programming

7 min read

rabbxdev

May 7

I replaced ws with 2.5KB of code and deleted 14 dependencies

#javascript #webdev #opensource #node

2 min read

Apr 24

Building SuperLex Skills: The Open-Source Legal Engineering Framework for AI Agents

#opensource #ai #agentskills #agents

3 min read

Apr 24

Heka-Insights-Agent: Milestone M3-4: Fail-Fast Exporter Validation at Startup

#devops #python #telemetry #opensource

3 min read

Valeriy Bagrintsev for WorksFine

May 7

Introducing Gloss: A Local-First Command Glossary for Your Terminal

#cli #opensource #productivity #terminal

3 min read

Apr 28

Introducing Prompt Master: A Structured Prompt Engine That Runs Entirely in Prompt Space

#ai #promptengineering #productivity #opensource

2 min read

Kern CMS

Apr 24

kerncms: Open-source Self-Hosted Headless CMS with AI Schema Generation

#webdev #opensource #selfhosted #javascript

2 min read

Thanniru Sai Teja

Apr 24

I built a GUI to manage Python virtual environments and pip packages (Tkinter)

#python #tkinter #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Apr 24

Run Claude Code in Any Sandbox with One API: AgentBox SDK

#ai #opensource #programming #machinelearning

3 min read

Apr 24

Activepieces and MCP: What We Learned Building AI Workflows

#activepieces #mcp #opensource #workflowautomation

6 min read

Mininglamp

Apr 24

AI Got Hands: Breaking the Human Bottleneck in Agent Workflows

#ai #opensource #automation #machinelearning

9 min read

Apr 23

The Skill Ecosystem Has a Locked Door Problem — So I'm Building the Lock

#ai #agents #opensource #claude

4 min read

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