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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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Senthil Pitchappan V

Feb 21

I Got Tired of Tab Hell Just to Write Documentation - So I Built This

#opensource #markdown #ai #webdev

4 min read

Arnav Kirti for OWASP BLT

Mar 3

Open Source Journey: Contributing to OWASP BLT

#opensource #security #learning

3 min read

WonderLab

Mar 4

OpenClaw Deep Dive (4): Plugin SDK and Extension Development

#ai #opensource #openclaw #extensions

8 min read

edvatar

Mar 4

I Built a Tool to Sync Your Claude Code Brain Across Machines

#ai #claudecode #opensource #productivity

2 min read

Mar 4

Your MCP Servers Are Safe. Your Config Isn't.

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

7 min read

WonderLab

Mar 4

Open Source Project of the Day (Part 5): SuperClaude Framework - A Framework for Enhancing Claude Code

#opensource #ai #python #typescript

10 min read

Shin

Jan 29

Convenience is eating security: why “one-click agents” need a stop button

#ai #python #security #opensource

2 min read

Feb 11

myanon — how I anonymize 200GB of MySQL nightly for GDPR-safe dev

#mysql #opensource #database #security

1 min read

Alister Baroi for Tigera Inc

Apr 2

Why Kubernetes Flat Networks Fail at Scale—and Why Your Cluster Needs a Security Hierarchy

#technicalblog #bestpractices #opensource

6 min read

Ashan_Dev

Mar 4

🦈 Pull Shark Automation: Create 62 GitHub PRs/min with Python

#python #github #automation #opensource

3 min read

Prakersh Maheshwari

Mar 3

I Got Tired of Checking 6 AI Dashboards, So I Built a CLI That Checks Them All

#ai #opensource #antigravity #productivity

3 min read

Jan 29

Mastering n8n for Robust Workflow Automation: Beyond Basic Integrations

#automation #opensource #productivity #softwaredevelopment

5 min read

Feb 28

I Built a Voice-to-Code VS Code Extension That Runs Entirely On-Device

#vscode #ai #opensource #a11y

2 min read

berthelius for Frihet

Mar 4

I Built an MCP Server for My ERP — Here's What I Learned

#mcp #ai #typescript #opensource

3 min read

吴迦

Mar 4

Inside OpenClaw: How the World's Fastest-Growing AI Agent Actually Works Under the Hood

#ai #opensource #architecture #aws

14 min read

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