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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.

submission guidelines

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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Alexandre Lasly

May 16

Bounty Watcher: An Autonomous AI Agent That Finds Paid Gigs While You Sleep

#showdev #hermesagentchallenge #automation #opensource

3 min read

Mubashar Hussain

Apr 22

I got tired of the Cloudflare web dashboard lag, so I built a native desktop client in Rust

#cloudflare #rust #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Apr 22

I built a CLI tool to quickly sanity-check CSV files (tidypeek)

#python #cli #data #opensource

1 min read

Apr 22

Looking for a few design partners for Topogram, an early spec-and-proof layer for teams using coding agents to evolve real software

#ai #developertools #opensource #architecture

2 min read

Apr 22

Our release tool crashed on a large PR. Here's the React diff library I ended up writing.

#webdev #opensource #react #performance

7 min read

Abu Hasnat Nobin

Apr 22

I built a zero-dependency React Native animation library — 14 drop-in components, native driver only.

#reactnative #javascript #typescript #opensource

3 min read

May 6

I Built My Own Programming Language at 19 – Introducing Akro

#showdev #programming #opensource #go

2 min read

Vincent Grobler

Apr 22

We built shareable multi-agent workflow templates — here's how they work

#ai #opensource #webdev #productivity

3 min read

Apr 22

Building Beautiful Forms with Kotlin Multiplatform: Introducing Multiplat

#kotlin #productivity #opensource #architecture

2 min read

May 26

I built toklock — the only Anthropic rate-limit proxy that queues requests instead of crashing your agents

#claude #agents #opensource #anthropic

2 min read

Shedrack Erhabor

May 15

Ovie for Absolute Beginners: Your First Programming Language Could Be This One

#beginners #opensource #ovie #ovielang

3 min read

Apr 22

Evaluating Open-Weight LLMs for Phishing Simulation and Red Teaming

#ai #cybersecurity #llm #opensource

3 min read

manojradhakrishnan

Apr 22

Prism: A stateless payment integration library extracted from 4 years of production

#showdev #api #backend #opensource

11 min read

Apr 22

I Fine-Tuned a Compliance Judge and Beat the Stock Model by +29.6pp F1

#machinelearning #python #opensource #nlp

6 min read

Artem M

May 26

Your LLM Forgets Everything. Give It a Wiki!

#ai #productivity #opensource #llm

4 min read

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