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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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Mar 27

I built a Base64 encoder that doesn't phone home

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 27

I built a JSON formatter that actually tells you WHERE your JSON broke

#webdev #javascript #opensource #productivity

1 min read

Mar 23

I Built a Mistake Database for My AI Agents (And They Actually Got Better)

#aiagents #programming #opensource #devops

4 min read

Mar 22

I Built a Multi-Agent AI That Runs on a Raspberry Pi

#ai #programming #agents #opensource

2 min read

Apr 5

Stop pasting broken Markdown into Jira: building md2jira

#markdown #jira #typescript #opensource

4 min read

Mar 26

From PyPI to Production: Publishing bitcoin-mcp to agentregistry

#mcp #bitcoin #opensource #ai

4 min read

Apr 14

Building an Open-Source Polotno Alternative (Canva-like Editor)

#showdev #design #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Mar 22

I'm 11 years old and I built an AI agent platform with 250+ tools

#webdev #opensource #ai #beginners

3 min read

Chen Debra

Mar 27

Part 6 | Enterprise Multi-Tenancy and Resource Isolation Techniques in DolphinScheduler You Might Not Know

#dolphinscheduler #opensource #datascience #ai

5 min read

GZOO

Mar 26

Forge – Turn Dev Conversations into Structured Decisions

#opensource #typescript #ai #productivity

2 min read

Apr 14

I use Langfuse for tracing. Here's why I added Rewind for debugging.

#ai #python #opensource #agents

4 min read

TokVera

Mar 22

How to Build an OpenAI-Compatible LLM Gateway with Model Routing Visibility

#ai #typescript #opensource #api

5 min read

Mar 26

Back to the terminal — I built an invoicing tool that lives where you work

#programming #opensource #npm #cli

1 min read

Mar 23

I built a job board where bots are explicitly welcome

#webdev #opensource #career #programming

1 min read

Apr 14

Hermes Agent: The Self-Improving AI Agent That Runs 24/7 on Your Own Server — A Deep Dive

#agents #ai #automation #opensource

6 min read

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