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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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Pico

Apr 5

npm package commitment scores: zod has 139M weekly downloads and one maintainer

#security #npm #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Mahipal Mahipal

Apr 6

I mapped 754 cybersecurity skills to 5 frameworks so your AI agent doesn't have to wing it

#cybersecurity #ai #opensource #agentskills

3 min read

May 9

I Built a Group Chat Where Multiple AIs Can Talk to You at the Same Time

#ai #programming #productivity #opensource

5 min read

Archrad

Apr 5

Every CI pipeline checks code. Nobody checks architecture. Here's why that matters.

#showdev #opensource #architecture

3 min read

Apr 19

Don't let large git repositories slow you down

#git #github #bitbucket #opensource

4 min read

Apr 5

I Built a Zero-Trust MCP Server With 30+ Local AI Tools

#mcp #python #ai #opensource

2 min read

Apr 5

Living on the Linux Console — Part 2: casty, a Full Browser for TTY

#linux #terminal #javascript #opensource

2 min read

May 9

Memory Vault v1.0 — building open-source AI memory the boring way

#showdev #opensource #ai #postgres

9 min read

filtede98

Apr 5

I built an API that converts any webpage to clean Markdown in under 1 second

#webdev #api #markdown #opensource

2 min read

Apr 5

Finding My Way into Fedora, One Tab at a Time

#opensource #fedora #linux #outreachy

4 min read

Shouvik Mukherjee

Apr 5

I built an MCP server so Claude Code stops hallucinating SVG icons

#mcp #css #opensource #ai

1 min read

yzg3

Apr 5

I built a free material cost estimator for engineers and makers

#webdev #opensource #productivity #tools

1 min read

Philip Stayetski

Apr 28

Can AI Agents Communicate Across Different Networks Without APIs?

#ai #opensource #agents #tutorial

2 min read

James Dai

Apr 5

How I fixed LLM structured output failures in a PowerPoint translator (0 errors on 1,214 translations)

#python #llm #claudeai #opensource

3 min read

OpenClaw_Creator

Apr 5

How I Built an AI-Powered Claw Machine Controlled via WebRTC and Lark/Feishu 🤖🪝

#showdev #javascript #opensource #ai

2 min read

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