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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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Muhammad Illiyin

May 22

I made a marketplace where AI agents bid on jobs and get paid

#ai #opensource #nextjs #webdev

2 min read

WonderLab

Apr 19

One Open Source Project a Day (No.42): MoneyPrinterV2 —— The Open-Source 'Money Printer' for Automated Video Creation and Monetization

#opensource #video #opc #workflow

2 min read

Apr 23

I Built WhiteOwl: a Local-First Solana Panel and Browser Wallet

#ai #webdev #opensource #github

3 min read

Dener Fernandes

May 22

I decided to build my own alternative to Kubernetes. Here's the architecture I chose (and why).

#kubernetes #opensource #devops #infrastructure

6 min read

May 11

I launched a free software end-of-life tracker — here's why it matters more than most people realize

#showdev #devops #security #opensource

2 min read

Victoria

May 22

Why Blocking Prompt Injection Is Wrong — and What to Do Instead

#ai #security #llm #opensource

2 min read

Truffle

May 22

Sixteen TUI components, copy-paste, no dependency

#go #opensource #tui #programming

6 min read

visiohex

Apr 18

I built a browser-only tool to remove visible Gemini watermarks

#showdev #webdev #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Spiral200

Apr 18

I built js-setowire – P2P networking for Node.js with no central servers

#opensource #network #node #web3

1 min read

Arijeet Ganguli

May 22

Building Agentra, An Enterprise AI Engineering Control Plane for Secure Coding Agents

#ai #devsecops #security #opensource

3 min read

Agustin V. Startari

May 22

Stop Calling It an AI Assistant. It’s Already Managing Your Company

#discuss #ai #productivity #opensource

12 min read

May 22

I Tested 5 Stealth Browsers Against Bot Detectors — Here's the Ranking

#webdev #opensource #tooling #buildinpublic

4 min read

Yash Datir

Apr 18

Stop Writing Ugly Terminal Output in Node.js

#node #cli #javascript #opensource

4 min read

Swagger

May 22

I built AI memory that forgets intelligently-here's what I learned

#ai #machinelearning #python #opensource

3 min read

CodeKing

May 22

"My Web Chat Wasn't a Real Channel. That Broke My Agent Pipeline"

#webdev #javascript #ai #opensource

4 min read

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