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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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Feb 11

LLMs have a memory problem. So I built a fix.

#ai #memory #opensource #database

1 min read

Feb 16

Gemini-Web-to-API: Convert your Gemini Web account into a free API

#showdev #api #gemini #opensource

1 min read

Habeeb Rahman CA

Feb 16

Shannon AI: The Agent That Doesn’t Just Build Apps - It Breaks Them (On Purpose)

#webdev #ai #opensource #automation

3 min read

chovy

Feb 14

Your Bookmarks Are Trapped — Here's How to Free Them

#browser #productivity #webdev #opensource

2 min read

jxlee007

Feb 11

A Picoclaw Can Compromise Your Entire System 😱

#ai #opensource #cybersecurity #devops

6 min read

Amit Kumar Rout

Feb 10

Product Launch: Clariseque — Making CVEs Relevant to Your Tech Stack

#webdev #sideprojects #security #opensource

2 min read

Feb 15

I Built a Zero-Dependency Manga Viewer in Vanilla JavaScript 📖

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Kamil Tustanowski

Feb 11

AI Agents 101: From Concept to Code (No Frameworks Required)

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

Lyra

Feb 11

Model Context Protocol (MCP): The Open Standard for the Agentic Era 🌙

#opensource #ai #linux #automation

2 min read

Wes Sander

Feb 12

How I built an observability layer for my OpenClaw AI agents

#ai #opensource #openclaw #agents

4 min read

Feb 8

QHexView 5.1 Release (and a little bit of history)

#showdev #cpp #qt #opensource

2 min read

Agenium platform

Feb 15

Why MCP Without Agent Discovery Is Like the Web Without DNS

#mcp #ai #agents #opensource

4 min read

RobIW_dev

Feb 10

Your AI Forgets Everything. Here's the Open Source Protocol That Fixes It.

#ai #productivity #opensource #programming

8 min read

Bogomil Shopov - Бого

Feb 11

FOSDEM and me: OSM, Translation, decentralization and art

#opensource #productivity #web3 #ux

1 min read

Ilya Romanovsky

Feb 15

Why I built yet another uptime monitor (and why UDP monitoring shouldn't be a paid feature)

#webdev #devops #monitoring #opensource

2 min read

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