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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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AJAY SABLE

Mar 31

I studied 5 repos with 200K+ combined stars and built the tool they were all missing

#claudecode #ai #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Mar 30

what if MCP servers had a Lighthouse-style security score?

#mcp #security #ai #opensource

2 min read

김이더

Mar 31

Paperclip: The Open-Source OS for Running 20 AI Agents Like a Company

#ai #opensource #agentorchestration #sideprojects

5 min read

Wallet Guy

Mar 31

Managing Your Self-Hosted Wallet with the Admin Dashboard

#web3 #ai #opensource #tutorial

5 min read

amin

Mar 30

Fedora- Just Another OS, But Really?

#opensource #outreachy

1 min read

Mar 31

Memory Continuity: Zero-Dependency Session Persistence for AI Agents

#opensource #ai #javascript #productivity

2 min read

L0pa

Mar 31

I built L0p4Map – open source network monitoring tool with interactive topology graph

#programming #python #opensource #hackathon

1 min read

Mar 31

I stopped trusting AI agents to “do the right thing” - so I built a governance system

#ai #security #architecture #opensource

3 min read

Oscar Ricardo Sánche Gutierréz

Mar 31

RustDesk: Cómo crear una red de acceso remoto segura y privada

#rustdesk #remotedesktop #selfhosted #opensource

5 min read

Mar 30

I Compared Every Open-Source EU AI Act Scanner. Here's What I Found.

#ai #python #opensource #euaiact

4 min read

Mar 30

OpenClaw in Production: Real Costs, Security Setup, and What a Month of Daily Use Actually Looks Like

#ai #opensource #selfhosted #automation

4 min read

Aboubakar Camara

Mar 31

Your AI Agents Run 24/7. Your Laptop Doesn't. I Built a Mobile Docker Dashboard.

#devops #docker #opensource #reactnative

5 min read

Pritom Mazumdar

Mar 30

How I Built Video Token Optimization for Vision LLMs: Cutting Costs 13-45% with Frame Dedup + Scene Detection

#python #opensource #mcp

5 min read

Mar 30

Why we built nested steerable tool loops for AI agents

#opensource #automation #architecture #agents

3 min read

Andrei Traistaru

Mar 31

How I built an append-only cryptographic audit trail for AI agent actions

#ai #agents #opensource #typescript

1 min read

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