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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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Arnold Cartagena

Feb 8

My AI agent pushed directly to main. The system prompt said don't.

#python #ai #opensource #security

6 min read

Feb 8

I built a Streamlit alternative because I hated "Full-Script Reruns" (Introducing Violit) 🚀

#python #webdev #ai #opensource

3 min read

Anish Bhandarkar

Mar 14

I Got Tired of Writing Hacky Cross-Tab Code. So I Built Omnitab.

#javascript #typescript #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Jaseph

Feb 8

I Built an Open-Source AI Assistant with 19 Tools That Actually Controls Your Computer

#ai #opensource #python #selfhosting

3 min read

Colony-0

Mar 3

I Built a Nostr DM Bot Framework in 249 Lines of Python

#python #nostr #bitcoin #opensource

2 min read

devjiro

Mar 14

I analyzed 40 OpenClaw use cases — 92.5% don't need OpenClaw

#showdev #opensource #ai #productivity

2 min read

machuz

Mar 14

Git Archaeology #7 — Observing the Universe of Code

#opensource #productivity #git #career

7 min read

machuz

Mar 14

Git Archaeology #8 — Engineering Relativity: Why the Same Engineer Gets Different Scores

#opensource #productivity #git #career

8 min read

Feb 8

Building an HTTP Header Analyser in Python:

#webdev #security #python #opensource

3 min read

Łukasz Nawrocki

Feb 12

I Built an MCP Server for My Translation Tool - Here's How (and Why)

#ai #mcp #javascript #opensource

6 min read

Feb 8

How I Made Claude Code Agent Teams Work With Any Model

#ai #opensource #typescript #tooling

7 min read

Feb 8

404ping: From "It Works" to "It's Actually Really Good" 🚀

#node #opensource #devops #cybersecurity

7 min read

Feb 8

I checked the WordPress sites I built years ago. Here's what I found.

#wordpress #security #webdev #opensource

6 min read

Davron Yuldashev

Mar 14

I built a process manager with built-in crash detection and AI auto-fix (PM2 alternative)

#rust #zig #devops #opensource

3 min read

GrimLabs

Mar 14

The Architecture Behind Tamper-Proof Audit Logs

#opensource #security #webdev #tutorial

5 min read

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