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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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Niix

May 20

I replaced nginx with a reverse proxy I wrote in Go

#showdev #programming #devops #opensource

2 min read

Apr 17

Porting Anthropic's Skill Creator from Python to TypeScript

#opencode #typescript #ai #opensource

4 min read

Makoto Yui

Apr 16

Introducing Graflow: An Orchestration Engine for AI Agent Workflows

#ai #python #opensource #agents

4 min read

Ryan Park

Apr 16

I found that one Excel file was eating 85% of my indexing time tags: opensource, dotnet, productivity, showdev

#showdev #dotnet #opensource #performance

4 min read

Pablo Calofatti for CloudX

May 20

One Brain, Many Hands: Building a Parallel Task Orchestrator for AI Agents

#ai #productivity #opensource #webdev

7 min read

GEM² Inc.

Apr 30

Claude Skills Fail Silently. Here Is My Solution.

#claudecode #cloudskills #devtools #opensource

4 min read

May 20

Embedding 685 million texts in 32 minutes

#rust #machinelearning #performance #opensource

8 min read

ALVARO

Apr 16

Configuración de opencode sin complicaciones

#opensource #tooling #tutorial

3 min read

t49qnsx7qt-kpanks

Apr 16

That viral free AI stack tweet is 90% right — here is the 10% nobody talks about

#ai #webdev #opensource #beginners

4 min read

Florian Demartini

May 20

90 pages with broken Rich Results. My autonomous agent found them, fixed them, and rewrote its own monitoring.

#claude #ai #automation #opensource

5 min read

May 20

How I got my HP fingerprint sensor working on Linux.

#linux #reverseengineering #opensource #claude

9 min read

Apr 16

Milestone 2: Standardizing Telemetry Output with JSON, Prometheus, and OpenMetrics

#telemetry #opensource #devops #python

2 min read

Apr 16

I made an Gemini Powered Music DAW

#ai #opensource #music

1 min read

Prath

Apr 16

Hmm....🚨 OAuth vs Email Signup Conflict — Security or Bad UX? (Need your opinion)

#webdev #github #appwritehack #opensource

2 min read

May 20

Why AI Coding Agents Fail Senior Engineers (And What I Built to Fix It)

#ai #claude #openai #opensource

3 min read

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