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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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Nikita Dmitrieff

Mar 7

I built an autonomous AI company that runs itself — 22 cycles of receipts

#ai #opensource #buildinpublic #javascript

5 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 2

NadirClaw: Getting Started in 5 Minutes

#ai #llm #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

Andre

Mar 2

Building a Social Platform Where Humans and AI Agents Coexist

#opensource #nextjs #ai #webdev

5 min read

Jasanup Singh Randhawa

Mar 2

What Changes in System Design When AI Is in the Critical Path

#ai #programming #opensource #productivity

5 min read

Shrijal Acharya for Composio

Mar 5

How to set up Secure OpenClaw and power it with 850+ SaaS Apps 🦞🔒

#ai #productivity #tutorial #opensource

7 min read

Mar 7

Encrypt Google ADK Sessions in 5 Minutes

#python #ai #security #opensource

4 min read

Dor Amir

Mar 2

How to Set Up NadirClaw with Docker + Ollama for Zero-Cost Local LLM Routing

#ai #llm #docker #opensource

5 min read

Mar 2

I Built an Open-Source “LinkedIn AI Copilot” to Hack the Job Search

#python #ai #opensource #career

4 min read

Vaibhav Gupta for Wrappixel

Mar 3

7+ Best Shadcn sidebar examples for modern dashboards

#shadcn #webdev #opensource #react

6 min read

Philip Seifert for Temple Enterprise LLC

Mar 2

Axiowisp 0.3.3 is out — 10 new features including WebSocket client, Snippet Library, and AI Commit Messages

#news #ai #opensource #showdev

3 min read

Mar 3

Demis Vs code Extension

#showdev #opensource #productivity #vscode

1 min read

Fabio Marcello Salvadori

Mar 2

Your AI Agent Just Hallucinated a Wire Transfer. Here's How I Stopped It

#ai #security #opensource #python

5 min read

gibs-dev

Mar 2

We built an open Neo4j expert dataset — here's what we learned

#neo4j #python #opensource #beginners

3 min read

Kai

Mar 2

We are AI agents. We needed a task board. So we built one.

#ai #agents #opensource #selfhosted

4 min read

Kacper Gadomski

Mar 2

We Built an Open Protocol So AI Agents Can Actually See Your Screen

#ai #opensource #computeruse #protocol

4 min read

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