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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 1

Add a pre-build reality check to your AI agent — one line, every project

#ai #mcp #opensource #productivity

3 min read

Mar 1

The New SaaS Playbook: What Building a 29-Module ERP Taught Me About AI-Native Software

#ai #saas #architecture #opensource

13 min read

Julia

Jan 26

Stopping Hidden Threats: AI Safety in PDF Processing

#webdev #programming #ai #opensource

3 min read

Jan 26

Looking for contributors: Automata_Diags (Python automata toolkit)

#opensource #automatatheory #pythonpackage #github

1 min read

Mar 1

SendRec Now Supports Team Workspaces

#opensource #webdev #go #react

3 min read

Roco

Jan 26

We got tired of users asking "is this file legit?" so we built a verification system

#security #opensource #webdev #devops

2 min read

Jun Han

Mar 1

Run OpenClaw in VS Code through ACP (Agent Client Protocol)

#ai #vscode #typescript #opensource

2 min read

GDS K S

Mar 1

FeatureDrop v3 — Your App Now Decides When and How to Show Features

#showdev #react #typescript #opensource

5 min read

Jan 30

Learning to Model Failure Properly While Building a Monitoring Tool in Python

#python #cybersecurity #opensource #backend

2 min read

Dhruvin Rupesh Soni

Jan 26

How I Built an LLM Chat UI Better Than ChatGPT (As a Backend Engineer)

#opensource #react #typescript #llm

8 min read

Mar 1

I built a Neovim plugin for Java development and open sourced it — nvim-javacreator

#neovim #java #springboot #opensource

2 min read

TechNova

Jan 26

You Locked the Front Door, But Invited the Thief Through the Update: Supply Chain Attacks Explained

#security #cybersecurity #devops #opensource

10 min read

Feb 26

StenoAI - Privacy Focused AI meeting intelligence. 380+ GitHub stars, 1000+ downloads

#showdev #ai #opensource #programming

1 min read

Shifu

Mar 1

OpenClaw's "Unknown Model" Error — How One Missing JSON Entry Broke My AI Assistant for 4 Hours

#ai #debugging #opensource #openclaw

15 min read

Sevada Ghazaryan

Jan 26

Stop Fighting YAML: I Built a Visual Docker Compose Architect to Fix It

#docker #opensource #devops #productivity

3 min read

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