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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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kiwi_tech

Apr 18

Kiwi-chan's Coal Quest: A Tale of Exploration and Repeated Failure

#ai #minecraft #web3 #opensource

2 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

The 4-Day Work Week Is Already Here (You Just Don't Know It Yet)

#productivity #career #programming #opensource

4 min read

Max

Mar 15

Giving it away

#ai #claude #opensource #devtools

2 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

Building a PTO Optimizer with JavaScript: The Algorithm Explained

#javascript #programming #webdev #opensource

4 min read

Eastkap

Mar 15

The PTO Mistake That Costs Americans 172 Million Vacation Days a Year

#productivity #career #programming #opensource

4 min read

Mar 16

Joplin Server Sync Issues

#networking #opensource #productivity #tutorial

4 min read

Mar 15

Why AI Agents Need Their Own Authorization Protocol (and How We Built One)

#ai #security #opensource #webdev

3 min read

kt

Apr 18

Why I Built awesome-authorization: Mapping the World of Auth Engines onto a Single Page

#showdev #authorization #security #opensource

6 min read

Alan West

Apr 18

HTML PPT Skill: AI-Powered Presentations Without PowerPoint

#ai #webdev #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Chris King

Mar 16

Open-Sourcing VoxCast: CPU-Only Multi-Turn Podcast Generation With Low Memory Usage

#ai #python #opensource #machinelearning

1 min read

neuzhou

Apr 7

I Read Claude Code's 510K Lines of Source Code — Here's How It Actually Works

#ai #claude #architecture #opensource

6 min read

Adarsh Agrahari

Mar 15

most coding agents are still too stateless for real software workflows

#ai #opensource #mcp #agents

3 min read

Apr 18

m2cgen: exportá tu modelo de ML sin llevar Python a producción

#machinelearning #opensource #codegeneration #modelexport

5 min read

Chinyere John-Nnah

Apr 18

I Automated 90% of The Ethers.js v5 v6 Migration using Codemods and AI

#ai #automation #etherjs #opensource

6 min read

kagioneko

Mar 15

I built an open-source \"limbic system\" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers

#mcp #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

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