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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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Glendel Joubert Fyne Acosta

May 21

AI Agents Don't Have Permissions — Runtimes Do

#ai #multiagent #architecture #opensource

2 min read

German

May 22

Why I built a post-quantum signing API (and why JWT is on borrowed time)

#security #webdev #api #opensource

2 min read

May 11

GarlicStamp: an open identity protocol for AI agents

#showdev #ai #agents #opensource

7 min read

May 22

How we run our newsletter on our own Astro stack instead of Substack

#newsletter #buildinpublic #opensource #sal

7 min read

Google I/O Challenge submission

May 20

My PR Merged Into a Graveyard: On the Rise of Antigravity and the Fall of Open Source

#devchallenge #googleiochallenge #opensource #ai

5 min read

naz

Apr 18

Hey, I made a tool that encrypts files using your typing rhythm!!!!

#opensource #cybersecurity

1 min read

propfirmdealfinder

Apr 18

Building an MCP Server for Prop Trading: How I Gave Claude + ChatGPT Live Access to 20+ Prop Firm Deals

#ai #mcp #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Mippedia

Apr 18

Building a Modern Open Knowledge Ecosystem: Introducing Mippedia

#opensource #ensiklopedia #mippedia

1 min read

MoLines Designs

Apr 22

I built a visual TUI for Homebrew with React and Ink

#opensource #terminal #react #typescript

2 min read

Mu Micro

May 11

npm outdated won't tell you if a package is abandoned — so I built `stale-deps`

#node #cli #devtools #opensource

1 min read

Vishal VeeraReddy

May 22

Run Hermes Agent on Any Model — Free, Local, and Cost-Routed

#ai #opensource #agents #llm

6 min read

Luthfi Khusyasy

May 11

Local LLM Model on Intel Iris Xe using Ollama

#ai #tutorial #opensource #agents

3 min read

Hiromi

May 22

Project: Restaurant Delivery CRUD

#opensource #sideprojects

3 min read

Apr 18

How to manage multiple websites from one Astro monorepo

#astro #webdev #opensource #typescript

7 min read

Nguyễn Công Thuận Huy

Apr 18

I Built a Tool to Generate Developer Portfolios Automatically

#webdev #opensource #productivity #python

1 min read

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