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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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AxonOS

Mar 14

I'm building a real-time OS for brain-computer interfaces in Rust — here's why the existing stack is broken

#rust #embedded #bci #opensource

7 min read

jreeeedd

Mar 13

Por que não fui pelo caminho comum

#ai #webdev #agents #opensource

2 min read

Majed

Mar 10

Deterministic Contract Risk Scanning in a Single HTML File (No AI, No Cloud)

#legaltech #security #javascript #opensource

3 min read

wd400

Apr 11

I code-reviewed 3 "vibe-coded" PRs last week. Every one had hardcoded API keys. So I built a grader.

#showdev #python #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Mar 10

A new tool I built: Crashvault

#showdev #python #opensource

1 min read

Tom Lee

Mar 10

Why Vibecoding Fails — AI Agents Need Memory and Identity

#ai #coding #opensource #devtools

3 min read

liuhaotian2024-prog

Mar 10

Why auditing AI agents requires causal AI, not another LLM

#ai #python #agents #opensource

5 min read

hf75

Mar 10

I built a tool that turns prompts into native .NET desktop apps — live-compiled

#dotnet #csharp #opensource #ai

2 min read

Mar 10

Plex vs Navidrome: Which Music Server to Self-Host?

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

4 min read

Yash Goel

Mar 14

MY JOURNEY TO OPEN SOURCE

#opensource

2 min read

Styx 7

Mar 10

I built an AI gateway that picks the right model for every request

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

2 min read

dutchbase

Mar 10

I built an open-source CLI image converter with a Web UI (and support for AI agents)

#showdev #cli #node #opensource

2 min read

𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻

Apr 13

How to Build a Public Open-Source Project People Actually Want to Clone, Use, and Contribute To

#opensource #github #webdev #devops

6 min read

Madhubalan Appachi

Mar 14

I built a local-only shell history manager in Rust with AI agent tracking

#rust #terminal #cli #opensource

3 min read

Mar 14

Why I stopped routing AI agents by keyword — and what I built instead

#ai #python #llm #opensource

3 min read

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