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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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David Van Assche (S.L)

Apr 15

Adding Epistemic Hooks to Your Workflow: From pip install to Measured AI in 5 Minutes

#ai #python #tutorial #opensource

5 min read

Keenan

May 19

Meet QueryDen: The Modern Database Client Built for Developers

#opensource #rust #database #sql

2 min read

Elia “Airtis” Shmuelovitch

May 19

An Autonomous Engine That Catalogs Its Own Failures

#agenticai #opensource #llm #softwareengineering

3 min read

Apr 15

I Built an AI-Native Webhook Inspector & Relay in 6 Weeks — Here’s What I Learned

#ai #opensource #webhook #developertool

4 min read

Apr 15

I Played GitHub's AI Agent Security Game. Here's What Every Level Teaches About Credential Isolation.

#security #ai #mcp #opensource

7 min read

Tommaso Bertocchi

Apr 15

I tried every Node.js antivirus library. Here's what I found.

#node #security #javascript #opensource

4 min read

May 18

Reviewable Memory Consolidation for Local AI Agents

#ai #mcp #sqlite #opensource

4 min read

Marco

Apr 15

How I shipped 13 PRs in one afternoon pair-programming with Claude (and what I learned)

#ai #python #claude #opensource

4 min read

nagasatish chilakamarti

Apr 15

Why AI Governance Committees Fail — And What to Do Instead

#aigovernance #security #opensource #ai

4 min read

Apr 15

I scanned every major vibe coding tool for security. None scored above 90.

#showdev #ai #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Wallet Guy

Apr 15

OpenClaw Plugin: 5 Tool Categories for External AI Agent Frameworks

#ai #opensource #llm #tutorial

4 min read

The Hive Collective

May 19

Give every Claude Code agent a shared, growing memory with one hook

#claudecode #ai #agents #opensource

2 min read

May 19

🌱One Commit at a Time -- My Open Source Journey

#beginners #github #opensource #devjournal

4 min read

May 19

Building Production-Ready Open Source AI Infrastructure: A Technical Guide

#opensource #datascience #ai #machinelearning

7 min read

Bobai Kato for Ota

May 19

Pressure Testing Ota on n8n: A Closed PR That Still Proved the Point

#automation #opensource #testing #tooling

2 min read

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