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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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Victor Kuzennyy for Agent Express

Apr 10

From Express.js to Agent Express: why middleware is all you need for building agentic AI

#typescript #ai #opensource #webdev

9 min read

May 10

Auditing Windows security from a Python script, no pip install needed

#python #windows #security #opensource

3 min read

Apr 10

WordPress 7.0: What's Good, the AI, and What's Missing

#wordpress #ai #webdev #opensource

1 min read

Apr 6

Semantic versioning explained - and why most projects get it wrong

#opensource #git #productivity #beginners

3 min read

Chris King

Apr 6

I Love Detailed Releases. I Hate Doing Them.

#ai #opensource #free #developers

2 min read

Apr 6

I built an open-source benchmark that scores AI agents, not models

#ai #opensource #python #agents

1 min read

Siddharth Pandey

May 10

Your AI Assistant Knows Your Code But Not Your Architecture

#ai #opensource #architecture #typescript

3 min read

Alan West

Apr 6

MCP Hit 97 Million Installs. The Protocol War Is Over.

#mcp #aiagents #infrastructure #opensource

4 min read

Apr 6

I built a free GitHub Action that scores your repo health — and auto-updates your README

#github #opensource #devops #productivity

3 min read

Maicon Ribeiro Esteves

May 10

Inner Warden: A Lightweight Open Source eBPF EDR for Linux that Actually Blocks Attacks

#rust #ebpf #cybersecurity #opensource

2 min read

Anthony

Apr 6

Balaka: local-only TTS with FastAPI and a separate frontend

#showdev #ai #opensource #python

1 min read

Sreethul Krishna

May 10

Integrating ETimeOffice Attendance API with Python and Django

#python #biometric #opensource #api

2 min read

Apr 7

What Happens If You Build Your Own Trading Bot? I Tried It

#ai #programming #opensource #cryptocurrency

2 min read

Visesh

May 10

Why Half of This Week's Trending GitHub AI Tools Are Called "Skills"

#ai #opensource #github #devtools

5 min read

Apr 6

40 Days of Building HarshAI: What I Learned About AI Automation

#harshaiproductivity #ai #buildinpublic #opensource

2 min read

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